The white onion is a bulb that grows every two years and has blue-green, hollow, tubular leaves. The bulb may push slightly ...

Every soup and stew starts with alliums like onions and leeks, so having them in the garden makes sense. Here's how to plant them.

Like onions, shallots prefer sun and a moisture-retentive, fertile soil, ideally with plenty of well-rotted organic matter ...

This variety produced good-looking, golden onions with crisp, shiny skins. It’s claimed to be bolt-resistant; none of our plants bolted, although we did lose two sets early on to birds. The onions ...

Simply chop the bottom of an onion and plant it in soil ... into the soil to improve its fertility and drainage. For onion sets: Dig a small hole or furrow in the soil, about 1-2 inches deep.

Add some alfalfa pellets to boost nitrogen levels. Plant onion sets no more than one inch deep, spacing them two to six inches apart in rows. Onions need a lot of water to swell in size so keep ...

Gardening experts have revealed the best three crops you need to sow in November to make sure your garden produces a bumper crop. To care for your onion crops, it is a good idea to cover the sets ...

Grow amazing alliums and learn how to plant onion bulbs at home. Starting onions from seed is easy; learn how to plant onion seeds and the best cultivars based on your growing zone. Our family ...

Onions are a culinary wonder that are full of secrets just waiting to be uncovered. Allium cepa is related to leaks, garlic and shallot bulbs. It is time to harvest wintering onions, which include ...

A gardener's enormous homegrown onion weighing in at almost 9kg is set to have broken a world record. The eye-watering sized vegetable, grown by Gareth Griffin from Guernsey, was displayed at the ...