Last week we got our onions in the mail from Dixondale Farms in Carizo Springs, TX. We received one bundle of the Short Day Sampler. The Sampler includes 48 plants that are a mixture of the 1015 Texas Super Sweet, Texas Early White, and the Red Creole. We like to plant this one as it is a nice variety.
We also got two bundles of the Yellow Granex Onion plants. That contains 96 onion plants. The Yellow Granex onion is the hybrid that most people would recognize as the Vidalia sweet onion. I got them out of the box and prepared the soil, using the onion planting guide provided. We grow these each year and have had great success with them, usually able to grow all the onions we'll need all year.
The guide contains helpful information on how far apart to plant them, how deep, and how far apart the rows should be. We've always found that if you follow the instructions, you'll have no problem growing delicious onions. I got busy with the hoe working the soil and started planting. I was racing the sun, but by the time the sun was dipping over the horizon, I had the job completed.
And then... Then we got the news that we'll be experiencing a winter storm early next week, bringing temps to around 20 degrees. Dixondale Farms helpfully sent out an email with instructions on preparing for extremely cold weather and freezing. They suggest covering the plants with a tarp and watering thoroughly before a freeze as moist soil holds heat from the day and insulates the bulb and tender roots. You can bet we'll be doing both of those things prior to the deep freeze.
Hopefully, we'll save the onions and will enjoy delicious onions this summer in yet another bumper crop.
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