Unleash Your Onions: The Best Onion Fertilizers Revealed

What are the best fertilizers to use when growing onions? We'll give you several great organic and synthetic fertilizer options to feed your onions plants and grow some monster onions. We'll break down our onion fertilization schedule and tell you how often you'll need to fertilize your onions to grow some big ones.

0:00 Intro
0:38 Short-Day Onion Update
3:19 Organic Fertilizers for Onions
5:31 Synthetic Fertilizers for Onions
6:53 Fertilizing Onions with Blood Meal
8:00 How Often Should You Fertilize Onions?
9:24 Elephant, Hardneck, and Softneck Garlic Update

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[markblix]

To make blood and bone meal easier to handle, I mix about twice the amount of dry sand. Slightly damp sand really knocks down the dust.

[Grateful_Ryan]

On the topic of mulching onions... My approach the past 2 years has been to plant cover crops where I intend to plant onions and garlic, terminate the cover crops and cover with a silage tarp, remove tarp and plant onions/garlic into mulch that was created by the cover crop mix. Keeps the soil covered and is completely seed free. I've been using the warm season soil builder from green cover, and it makes a really nice mulch material.

[JAYNEmM]

Your advice gave me huge onions last year, I'm zone 5b well 6a for new zoning in nebr. I just started all my onions seeds to put in the ground in late March. Good luck with this crazy weather.

[robclower]

Glad to see I'm not the only one in Georgia with onion seedlings that are still on the small side right now.

[WhatWeDoChannel]

I loved that…….”show me someone who trims their onions and I’ll show you bigger onions”😂! Always stop putting the juice to your hard neck garlic once it scapes. I always use a balanced fertilizer first and then add nitrogen as needed, I like to use urea diluted down to about the same level as miracle grow for any nitrogen additions (spoon feeding). Urea dissolves really well in water and is used in commercial agriculture by people with central spigots! I think this is my favourite gardening channel now!

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[rickthelian]

I’m glad you grew some hard neck and soft neck garlic on top of the Elephant Garlic.

[jimmyandrews]

Also thank you for all your knowledge and time making these videos. Watch you everyday for about 3 months now

[jeffengland]

January 13!! Guess you know about the Arctic front coming!! Around 5 degrees coming to East Tennessee. If I cover my short day onions will they have a chance??? This will be several days! They will get very little light for these days! I guess it’s temps first and light second!!

[Guyton_GA]

Just found you on Youtube, love your channel! I am starting my garden venture back up. I am in Effingham County, btw. Subscribed!! I like that chicken coop!

[katrinagarland]

I also learn something new and important every time I watch you. Love your channel!

[chrisfisher]

I sure do agree with the weeds and synthetic argument. I use Peters 20-20-20 and although I don’t get alot of weed the quack grass is an enormous pain in the butt.

[skyland]

I'm glad I saw this...I had mulched my onions to help protect them from this upcoming frost and I just side dressed them with Ammonium Sulfate on them for an initial boost (and the sulfur) and was looking for a good organic fertilizer to follow them up with for the longer term. I was thinking of Chilean Nitrate because I already have it but I guess I'll take that straw off and go get some blood meal too. 👍

[wwsuwannee]

You have the best home grown onions I have yet to see :)

[MyTNMtnHome]

Yay! So glad to find you again! Learn so much from you.

[williammikell]

One thing to consider is that mulch helps keep soil cooler. So if it is a warmer drier spring, mulch may be useful. I have mulch on my onions, some look okay and some look great. I think the mulch helped with the hot fall we had. Truth is that I am learner to grow onions from you. I did buy my seeds from you. thanks again.

[donnastormer]

Travis I haven't watched your videos for a while and I was really surprised to see your single row of onions. I'm used to seeing double rows from you. I learned double row planting from you years ago on your dad's website and that's the only way I plant beets onions things like that even my carrots it's such an energy saver.

[lancer]

Well, I absolutely learned that I have to improve drainage. My onions were planted right around the same time as yours, and I'm north of Milledgeville. Mine are looking a little puny compared to yours, and I'd bet it's the soil moisture. We've had some decent rain over the past few weeks. Thanks, Travis!

[blackpearlmetal]

Thank you for responding to my questions about my elephant garlic on Facebook. Never heard back from Hoss. Keep up the great work!

[brianczuhai]

Hey, you are the Onion guy. I love growing onions. Hey I can buy nice beautiful onions in the store year round, but they are just fun and rewarding to grow. Outside of some little weeding they are maintenance free and easy to grow.
We had a wet year last year. I picked mine at the right time. Except I noticed they were juicy. And I used mine as I needed them. Do I really need to cure mine more? You ever get juicy ones?
I used 5-1-1 fish fertilizer. And triple shredded wood chips as mulch/weed control.

[Simplyinspried]

I just watch video early they said to cut the onions half way through. I never grown onions, but just planted some in garden few days ago to give them a try. Glad ran across your video.