Last year I crowded the onions in their bed — the problem was I didn’t really have a good place to put them when the plants arrived. We had an OK harvest, and they tasted great. But I want to do a little better this year. So we laid out a 3′ x 25′ bed on the lawn and so far have piled it up with compost and fresh goat manure. In early March I’ll add a 6″ wood border all around to hold things in, and top it off with some soil.
The bed will host the Yellow Sweet Spanish Hybrid Onion Plants I just ordered from Gurneys, the Red Wethersfield sets from KitchenGardens, and I will once again try some from seed. So far I have had no success with onions from seed, but maybe this will be the year. We pretty quickly ate our way through last year’s onion harvest, so I’m hoping for a bigger, and longer yield this time around.
