Easy to grow and versatile in the kitchen, this herb is the perfect addition to your garden. Let's look at how to plant and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A row of onions planted in a garden while a woman rakes them. - Natali Ximich/Shutterstock For many gardeners, the anticipation of ...

Onions have such shallow roots they look like they're just sitting on top of the soil. Harness this oddity of the garden ...

With spring upon us, it’s time to think about planting in home gardens. In Iowa, onions are a popular addition to the vegetable garden as they are easy to grow and take up little space. In this ...

Companion planting is the practice of growing different plants together for mutual benefit. Growing onions is a simple task, especially when you grow onion companion plants nearby, which can help your ...

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 ...

The onion family is a familiar workhorse of the vegetable garden with cousins leek, shallot, garlic, chives and garlic chives joining the mainstream yellow, white and red slicing onion. Much less ...

How is an onion like a tightwad’s wallet? He cries when either is opened. Speaking of onions, I grew up in a German household where potatoes, cabbage and onions were mealtime staples. No hotdish was ...

The spherical umbels of onions consist of hundreds of individual flowers that open successively. Onion flowers are protandrous—the anthers of an individual flower mature and shed pollen before the ...

Growing onions is easy. A cool-season crop, they can be planted by direct seeding, sets or transplants early in spring. Plant them in a sunny spot with well-drained soil. Amend with organic matter and ...