Last year while my wife was cooking, there was a slice of green bell pepper on the kitchen counter full of seeds which I pointed out to my then 5 year old son. I told him that if we took those seeds and planted them, we could grow our own bell peppers. Not liking bell peppers, he was still excited about the idea of growing something from seed. So we took those seeds and a couple of weeks later, planted them in some soil in a spreadable butter container. Unfortunately, we started this process in July. But sure enough we, had several pepper plants germinating right before our eyes. This was neat, but with it late in the season, there wasn’t much hope we’d get a harvest from this. This experience did inspire us to think about other things we could grow. On our short list was onions.
I started to do my research on growing onions in North Texas. I wanted to make sure we didn’t miss the proper planting season as we did with our bell peppers. After much research, I found that late December through early January was the ideal time to plant via onion slips. We found a local nursery, North Haven Gardens, that offered onion slips right when we would need them. I purchased the Texas Early White Onion variety.
So this week I spent an hour planting about 40 onion slips in a little narrow strip of soil on the north side of our home. I only bought one bundle of onion slips, but even then, I ran out of room to plant the entire bunch. We ended up giving the extras to our neighbor.
I’m excited to see how these onions grow. These are Texas Early White Onions. I’ll probably need to get a new watering can. My little plastic one isn’t going to cut it.
