Square Foot/Intensive Gardening/growing onions

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Expert: Jim Kennard - 5/12/2008


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I remember my father pulling dirt away from green onions, was this to grow larger ones? I would like to grow the big ones like we buy at the grocery. Please tell me if I'm on the right track.  Thank you

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Sue:

Don't take the dirt away from around your green onions.

You DO need to make sure they are planted about 4" apart.  If they are too close together they cannot bulb and you will be very disappointed.

We grow 4 rows in level, raised, ridged beds that are 12" wide in the planting area, and at harvest time our beds are almost solid onions.

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Jim Kennard

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I can answer questions on vegetable gardening - Raised Beds, Container, Soil-Beds, "Poor Man's Hydroponics", Organic, etc.

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Gardened using The Mittleider Method for 30 years. Conducted seminars, college-level training programs, produced 80 video lectures, written hundreds of gardening articles, answered thousands of gardening questions, created a gardening website www.foodforeveryone.org with free ebook, free greenhouse plans, FAQ section with 355 gardening articles.

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Food For Everyone Foundation - President - Mission is "Teaching the world to grow food one family at a time."

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Numerous website publications

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Taught personally for 20 years by Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider, "The Garden Doctor", assisted him in creating and conducting major gardening training projects in America and Russia.

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Master Mittleider Gardening Instructor

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