Onions, Thinning Onions!

"Why Are Your Onions So Small?" someone asked me. NOT a Euphemism, she really was asking about My Onions that I grow in my garden.

Above top: Back in Early February, I spread these Onion Seed over some trays of soil, under my grow lights.

Below After a few weeks, the seeds have germinated, and the beginnings of Onion are started. In later spring, I transplant these starts to containers out in my yard.

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Above After a month outside, the Onion are tiny, only a cm or so in diameter, or less than half inch. BUT, they're jammed together crowding each other.
Below During June and July, as I need onion for cooking, I pull the smallest onions, for use. This leaves more and more room for the others to grow large. As I pull more of the smaller ones, the largers ones will become fully matured, in fall. Eating small onions and using them for cooking is fine. they are miler in flavor, but wonderful to cook with. And the greens are great, too.

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Below: Similar, a series of 3 images, of the red Onion I am growing, form tiny overcrowded to space to grow and mature!

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I am growing 6 varieties this year, plus Chives.

New to me:
White Pompeii Onion (shown above)
Red Ruby Long (shown above)
Utah Yellow
Varieties I have grown before: White Sweet Spanish
Red Burgundy
Red Beard Bunching

So far, I have been harvesting Ruby Red long, Pompeii White, and Utah Yellow. I will start harvesting Chives and dehydrating them for use during winter. Probably some of the Onion Greens, too. the white Sweet Spanish and Red Burgundy are getting larger, daily, and will make for great storage and use over winter.

LOTS More to come, from my GroVid22 Gardens!