onions, landscape fabric

[feather]

The onions are up front, tomatoes behind that. All in landscape fabric.

The white balls are onion stalks with flowers, for seed.

[Jolly]

How is the landscape fabric working out for you? Notice any difference in yields? Watering?

[feather]

Seems about the same watering, as it goes right through the weave, and so far production is the same, with 95% less weeding, so a lot more fun.

[feather]

The 14 hour sunlight days are coming to an end in a couple days. A couple onions are falling over signalling they are done bulbing. By Wednesday the sunlight days will fall below 14 hours. The rest of the onion greens will topple over.

We grow the long day onions. They require 14 to 16 hours of sunlight per day for the formation of the bulb.

Just like garlic, they should dry with their greens for a period of time, until the green area above the bulb has closed off. If you cut them off before that, they will sprout, ask me how I know. Then like cured garlic, they can be trimmed up and put in paper bags to store for winter in a cool dry place.

harvesttotable.com/bulb-onion-growing-day-length-and-temperature/

Short-day onions require just 12 to 14 hours of day light each day to form bulbs. This happens in the southern regions of the northern hemisphere to not greater than latitude 36°N.
Intermediate-day onions require 13 to 15 hours of day light each day to form bulbs. Intermediate day onions grow best between latitudes 35° to 38°N–but many are adapted for production to latitude 42°N.
Long-day onions require 14 to 16 hours of day light each day to form bulbs. Long-day onions do best north of the 36th parallel or latitude 36°N.

[feather]

We're taking out some of the onions that browned and toppled over. 3/4ths of the onions are still looking okay, waiting for them to fall.
I used a couple in a salad, raw chopped, and they were so mild, really great taste now.
We're drying them on the picnic table with a tarp over them to protect them from rain.

[feather]

They're done and dried and trimmed. A gallon of smaller onions in the kitchen and 170 larger onions (100 lbs worth), trimmed and stored in paper bags in the basement pantry for now. Yay, one more thing done.