Growing onion

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Growing Onions in your Vegetable Garden

Onion seed should be sown as soon as possible in the spring, even if the weather is cold, just so the soil works up well. This gives the onions a good start ahead of the weeds and before dry weather can set in. After thoroughly pulverizing the soil, sow thinly six to seven pounds to the acre, in drills fifteen to eighteen inches apart and about one-fourth inch deep. When well started, say four inches high, thin out to stand three to four inches apart in rows keeping them well hoed and free from weeds.

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Onions delight in rich, deep, sandy soil, and succeed well if grown for a succession of years on the same ground. Deep plowing is said to prevent blight. Heavy manuring and thorough cultivation are essential. By sowing the seed of Prizetaker under glass in January, February, or even March, and trans planting in April to open ground three or four inches apart in rows, bulbs of immense size may be produced.

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