Here is the awesome vegetable gardener at LQ, Dahlia, transplanting onions seedlings into the garden. If you want to save onions through the winter, it is important to grow them from seedlings, not sets. Seedlings can be purchased from several seed companies (of course I like getting organic ones from Seeds of Change!), or you can grow your own. I start onion seeds in 2" pots in late January or early February in the greenhouse. They can be grown in groups of three or four without thinning; in fact they like to be a bit crowded! New Mexico has a great climate for growing onions and it is a reliably successful crop at both gardens.
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