Killing Onions / Growing grape vines

Storing Red Onions

Some weeks ago before the frost while at Walmart when I was doing most of my seed purchases I found little bunches of onions. There were white ones, red ones and yellow ones. I purchased the white and red but not the yellow since those seemed interesting to start from seed. You've seen the start of the yellow onion seedlings.

These were in sold in little bunches like the one in the bowl.  They are the Bonnie Plants variety.  To store them I placed them in a bowl with moist soil or in a bucket with moist soil.   I wasn't ready to put them out yet because of the big freeze we had.  Good thing I didn't.   But they're ready to go out now.

I planted a few in a container. Those seem to be doing well. I have a feeling that they do not enjoy the full sun or the intense El Paso sun. They were far more erect when I had them indoors with little or no direct sun.

Storing White Onions

Just Friday I planted some in my garden. I agree my soil is less than ideal but since I can't do a complete overall of my soil I'll have to make do. I laid the onions down in the grown and covered them with soil/dirt to which I added a bit of miracle grow garden soil. Then gave them a good watering. So far they have not risen and it is now Monday. I'm starting to think that if I leave them there I'll soon have killed them. I'll continue to watch them for a few more days to see how they are doing.

I planted these in front of my grape vines. Yup I bought and planted some grape vines. The reason I decided to put them in from of the grape vines is because onion roots seem to not go very far. So I don't think they'll reach my grape vines and my grape vines roots have just begin so I don't think they'll reach my onions either.

Wilting Onions in the Garden

I'm very excited for my grape vines. These too I bought before the big frost from Lowes. I stored them in my front bedroom which I have closed off from the heaters which makes it very cool. Of course now that the weather is no longer cold its not as cool but on our cold days the toilet water next to the bedroom froze and the single pain window had ice all over it. So the grape vines survived a frost as they should. Now they are happily outside and are starting to show new leaf growth. If you look closely at the picture you'll see the white grape vine, Niagara White Grape Vine, has pink leaves coming out that are slowly turning green.   The blue grape vine, Mars Seedless Grape, has buds on it.  These too were planted with a mix of the soil in me garden with Miracle Grow Garden Soil and Peat Moss.

I hope it is not too soon to have put them outside as we do get a few cold fronts and frosts between now and the official day of the last frost in April.

Niagara White Grapes

Mars Seedless Grapes