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Hi All,

I am going to try planting
https://www.trueleafmarket.com/products/onion-seeds-imai-early-yellow
for over winter.

I am in zone 6B. First freeze in second week in October.
The summer heat dissipates starting the end of August.

When do I plant?

Many thanks,
-T



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T wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to try planting

https://www.trueleafmarket.com/products/onion-seeds-imai-early-yellow
for over winter.

I am in zone 6B. First freeze in second week in October.
The summer heat dissipates starting the end of August.

When do I plant?

Many thanks,
-T

Your planting zone says mid-April to Mid May but I suspect that is
esablished seedlings. I see the subject says for over-wintering
things, and I'm not sure of that.
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T wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to try planting

https://www.trueleafmarket.com/products/onion-seeds-imai-early-yellow
for over winter.

I am in zone 6B. First freeze in second week in October.
The summer heat dissipates starting the end of August.

When do I plant?

Many thanks,
-T

Onions are biennial. That means in the second season they go to seed.
So onions may not be good plants to overwinter. Tomato plants can live
for 3 years in tropical climates, so they overwinter well. Pepper plants
are supposedly able to overwinter but I have not had any luck with them. Cucumbers also did not overwinter and broccoli plants broke. Brussel sprouts ovewintered but my sprouts were still only a half centimeter when the first snow came and killed the plants.

But you can still try. I'd be interested in how it works out.
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On 6/5/24 08:44, cshenk wrote:

T wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to try planting

https://www.trueleafmarket.com/products/onion-seeds-imai-early-yellow
for over winter.

I am in zone 6B. First freeze in second week in October.
The summer heat dissipates starting the end of August.

When do I plant?

Many thanks,
-T

Your planting zone says mid-April to Mid May but I suspect that is
esablished seedlings. I see the subject says for over-wintering
things, and I'm not sure of that.

My green onions and Tokyo bunching onions survive over winter
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T wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to try planting
https://www.trueleafmarket.com/products/onion-seeds-imai-early-yellow
for over winter.

I am in zone 6B. First freeze in second week in October.
The summer heat dissipates starting the end of August.

When do I plant?

this is going to depend upon the variety of onion so
i would guess for these sometime towards the end of
July, you'll have to keep them moistened pretty much
every day (but not sodden) to sprout and grow.
whatever sprouts you get will grow a little and then
get knocked back by the cold and you will have a tiny
bulb which will resprout and finish in the spring.
the problem is that if the little bulbs get too big
and too stressed they may just bolt, flower and make
more seeds instead of onion bulbs the next growing
season.

you are much better off starting the seeds indoors
in the beginning of the next year and then plant those
starts out when the worst of the winter has passed.


songbird
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T wrote:

On 6/5/24 08:44, cshenk wrote:

T wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to try planting

https://www.trueleafmarket.com/products/onion-seeds-imai-early-yellow

for over winter.

I am in zone 6B. First freeze in second week in October.
The summer heat dissipates starting the end of August.

When do I plant?

Many thanks,
-T

Your planting zone says mid-April to Mid May but I suspect that is esablished seedlings. I see the subject says for over-wintering
things, and I'm not sure of that.

My green onions and Tokyo bunching onions survive over winter

Normal. Your main planting is as above per google.
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