If you’ve ever admired gigantic, gorgeous onions at the farmers market and wondered how home gardeners pull it off, the secret is simpler than you might think: they start early. Onions need a long ...

Learning how to grow onions from seeds and how to plant onions not only gives you more variety but also gives you more self-sufficiency. Our family loves cooking with onions, so a few years ago, we ...

Onions are easily grown from seed, bulbs, or transplants planted several weeks before the last frost in spring. Loamy soil is best for onions, but they can tolerate other types as long as it is ...

Every spring, I fight the wet weather (like most people) trying to get my onions planted early. So last fall I tilled in some compost in the last row in the garden and was careful not to get the cover ...

How is an onion like a tightwad’s wallet? He cries when either is opened. Speaking of onions, I grew up in a German household where potatoes, cabbage and onions were mealtime staples. No hotdish was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When growing onions in your vegetable garden, there are various approaches you can take. Photo: Getty Images / Svetlana ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A harvest of onions drying on a wire rack Growing onions is a hugely popular past-time for vegetable gardeners around the globe.

Onions have been grown and bred for thousands of years, leading to the great diversity of plants available today, from sweet to pungent flavors, bulbing to bunching types, and regional varieties with ...

An exhibitor inspects the red onions during the annual East African seeds Agricultural Farmers Field Day at Wambugu Farm in Nyeri. [Kibata Kihu, Standard] Onions are a hardy, cool season crop closely ...