With so many versatile uses, adding onions to your garden is a great decision. The allium can be a little finicky; here's the care plants need.

Sometimes the only way to get exactly the plants you want is to grow them yourself. This is certainly the case with onions. Grocery stores and supermarkets usually only sell the most common types of ...

Now is the time to buy onion seeds, which are cheaper and come in more interesting varieties than mail-order transplants. Here’s what you need to know. By Margaret Roach There are some things I never ...

August is an interesting and busy time in a vegetable garden, as many readers will no doubt be well aware. Most of your attention is likely to be on harvesting and tending the summer crops. For most ...

Get a head start this February: Here's 7 seeds to sow indoors this month.

Learning how to grow onions from seeds and how to plant onions not only gives you more variety but also gives you more self-sufficiency. Our family loves cooking with onions, so a few years ago, we ...

With the icy finger of winter finally hitting us this past week, it is hard to think about planting onions right now. Many of us may need something sunny and ...

Think winter is too early to start sowing vegetable and herb seeds outdoors? Not for all of them! While heat-loving crops like tomatoes don’t tolerate chilly temperatures one bit, many cold-weather ...

Farmers who want to maximize their profits and productivity come spring would do well to add winter sowing to their routine. This seed-starting method is great for hardy annuals and perennials that ...