Onion 101: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Onions and Spring Onions from Seed for Large Harvests

Onions from seed have less disease problems than onions from sets. I show a simple multisow method to start them undercover, and the high yield of bulbs - 12kg/26.4lb from 8 modules. Plus a harvest of 1.3kg/2.8lb spring onions. Also see how to grow early spring onions, from a sowing in late summer.
Filmed and edited by Edward Dowding February to July 2017 in my no dig garden at Homeacres UK, zone 8 climate.

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[padme]

Folks like me with no gardening experience have been growing enough vegetables for a family, year after year, ONLY with you as inspiration. You have given us the gift of appreciating nature! Thank you ‘sir’ Charles 😇

[velvettedelaney]

Does anyone else watch Charles Dowding videos before bed as a sort of meditation or way to unwind?! Just me?! 😍

[hlegler]

I don't want to overly dramatic, but THIS IS LIFE CHANGING!! Growing in sets? Little modules? Seedlings growing up with their friends? It may not be a new idea, but it's a new idea to me. Thank you, thank you for sharing!! I'm going to prep my winter/spring vegetable seedling sets tomorrow!

[Renusri]

How pleasent the presentation is😃 no unwanted music etc....great video

[rhg]

It’s fantastic to have a video that tells the entire story from seed to harvest!

[famousgrouse]

Another video where Charles passes so much knowledge on without sounding like a "know it all" You really have to love what you do to be able to relay so much information and that comes over so well. I never tire of listening and learning, and hope there are lots more videos to come.

[julianachandler]

I love that you show every stage in one video

[EnmandsBand]

the smile on your face pulling up all those beautiful onions....

[francesmorris]

Had never grown onions from seed before and so having watched this video we gave it a go, and we have just harvested a bumper crop - mostly great whoppers of onions! Not a single mouldy or rotten onion either - a far cry from our past experience of growing from sets. We should be self sufficient in onions for several months even as a large family! This is such a fantastic discovery and is definitely the way ahead! Many thanks for the tutorial.

[tedbastwock]

It took a lot of thought and foresight to make this video over such a long period of time at the right times of the plants life cycle, thank you for doing this. I like this crop-specific style, please consider doing more for other vegetables. Onions have always been a bit of a mystery to me precisely because they're grown a bit differently than most other garden veggies, and this was very helpful.

[meganbloopybloop]

You're one of the best humans I've ever seen on YouTube!

[healthyrootsstrongwings]

Seeing the joy in Charles while harvesting his onions is just so nice and contagious!

I'm off to my garden!

[claudiacesar]

Hello Charles. I stopped by to say that I currently turn to your videos whenever I have a question about a specific crop. In this case, onions, which I'm going to try for the first time. Thanks for the great explanation.

[Warrior-In-the-Garden]

I actually did a dance when you said "It's onion harvest time". THIS WILL BE THE YEAR!!

[Shuna]

Note to self. - before I sow anything I haven’t grown before I must check and see if Charles has video on the topic! I’ll try it this way next year! 😊

[YouCantEatTheGrass]

Charles needs to use "AMSR" as one of his tags, his voice is so calming, lol

[sarahhollingshead]

You’re an absolute genius! All of us in the gardening world are lucky to have you!!!

I’m starting onions this last week of February, and I searched your video from 4 years ago!! ❤️

[DylanFM]

Today I harvested my onions which I grew following this method. 36 modules, multi-sown with 8 seeds. Variety is Yellow Rhysburger which we got from Real Seeds. One of the trays was knocked over by our toddler, so we ended up transplanting about 20. We had a good harvest of around 30 spring onions in May and today I harvested 98 mostly good sized onions (a few small ones amongst the plump ones). Happy about this as it was grown in such a small space and gave us multiple harvests through the season. Thanks Charles!

[andreagrowsthings]

I love how complete this video is! Seeing the process from start to finish is so very helpful 😀

[kutmulc]

This is one of my favorite videos on the internet! I come back and watch it every year :)