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My favorite way of growing enough food for our family over the winter is to grow storage crops. Onions are one of our staple crops because they can be put into a cold room and stored for the entire winter with no preserving needed. with a little bit of strategy, you can grow large onions that will..

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00:00Here's how I grow large stocky onions that will store all winter long in my cold room just like

00:04this one did. I always plant onion seedlings not onion sets. The seedlings grow bigger bulbs and

00:10store much better over winter. When choosing an onion variety to grow make sure it has good

00:15storage qualities. My favorite storage varieties are Patterson and Redwing. The number one key to

00:20growing healthy onion seedlings is planting your seeds in a nice deep container. I make sure the

00:25container is at least four to six inches deep. When I transplant the seedlings into the garden

00:29I space them at least six inches apart to give room for the bulbs to get huge and don't plant

00:34them too deep. Some of the onion bulbs should form above the ground. Onions love loose nitrogen rich

00:39soil and last but not least I keep my onion patch weed free and mulched with leaves because onions

00:44don't like to compete.

My favorite way of growing enough food for our family over the winter is to grow storage crops. (3)

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