Gardening Tip: Growing Garlic And Onions Can Be Tricky!

Do not plant squash and garlic together! I did so to overlap crops, but the squash became stunted and the garlic turned into a strange unusable plant.

Garlic that I planted elsewhere did great, and the squash recovered when I removed the garlic.

I learned something about onions too. I was getting prepared to start harvesting my onions two weeks ago. All of a sudden they all started to bolt (bloom). I could not cut the buds off fast enough.

So I started exploring the Internet. It seems that if baby onions (the size of a lead pencil) experience unusually cold weather, they will think they have lived their two-year life cycle and bloom. There is nothing you can do to stop them.

I checked Wildomar Current Weather site and sure enough right around Thanksgiving we had two nights that reached 32.3 and 30.5 degrees. The onion plants were the right size for this to cause them to react.

Now I know to not only protect my citrus trees, but also my onions!