With spring upon us, it’s time to think about planting in home gardens. In Iowa, onions are a popular addition to the vegetable garden as they are easy to grow and take up little space. In this ...

Growing onions from seed takes a bit more planning than planting onion sets, but it has a lot of perks. Not only are onion seeds more affordable than onion sets, but you can also grow a wider variety ...

Spring onions also called scallions or green and bunching onions are basically young onions, harvested before the bulb has had a chance to swell. They are easy to grow and maintain. Consumers like ...

It’s almost that time, and by “that time” I mean time to start planting some of our cool-season vegetable crops. The idea of cool-season crops may be new to some of you, but in our area, we ...

A healthy backyard garden should be a biodiverse environment filled with plants that complement each other. That means if one plant is adding a certain nutrient to the soil or repelling a certain ...

Onions from seed| Then ten onions planted a year later to grow more seeds| Charles Dowding Where do seeds come from? Onions are biennial, so it takes a year and a half. They grow to a bulb in the ...

Spring onions also called scallions or green and bunching onions are basically young onions, harvested before the bulb has had a chance to swell. They are easy to grow and maintain. Consumers like ...