If you want to learn how to grow onions, you absolutely need to get to grips with onion sets: they are one of the best and ...

There are two main ways you can grow onions — from seed and from sets. Growing onions from seed offers several advantages ...

As any gardener will tell you, there’s nothing quite like the taste of homegrown vegetables. During the warmer months, a well-tended garden can yield a prolific bounty of ripe and juicy tomatoes ...

Sets give you a serious head start compared to onion seeds and are a lot easier to handle too! In this part of the world, choose a long-day onion. Choose your favorite variety and sprinkle it in a ...

Various types of onion, including spring onions, pickling onion and shallots can be successfully grown from sets or from seed, some from both. Onion sets are small, immature onions, planted in ...

The next step is deciding how you want to grow them—from seed, transplants, or onion set—small bulbs. If you decide to go the seed route, plant them as soon as the soil is workable in your garden.

Sulphur chips break down much more slowly, so aren't suitable for annual crops. Onion sets are easy to plant, provided you follow one or two simple rules. Use good, rich, weed-free soil and water ...

Durham's Graham Onions has set himself a summer target to land a place in the England Test side. The 24-year-old paceman was left out of England's 15-man World Cup squad, and while the accolades ...

Root crops can also be planted. Start with onion sets. Then plant seeds of radish, beets, carrots and turnips.