Container Garden Onions, Sand Soil Mix

We somewhat regularly grow a quantity of onions in our garden each year, along with everything else, but this year we’re going to try something a little different as an experiment. That is, growing some of them in a container (bucket). Many homes do not have the space for a full-on garden, so container gardening is often a great alternative, and actually has its benefits!

A container can be moved around or placed anywhere. In other words, you can find the sunny location and put it there.

A container will keep underground critters from getting to the roots of your plants (gophers, etc…).

The soil mixture can be specifically tailored to each container and variety of vegetable that you are growing.

The soil to grow onions (bulbs) needs to be porous and sandy. Thick clay soils, packed with lots of organic matter, are too dense for good growth, but adding some sand to clay soil will greatly assist in onion growth (should be good for carrots and other vegetables too).

Onions are very high in moisture content and that moisture is taken directly from the soil. The goal is to have moist soil but not wet soil. To test the moisture content, take a handful of the soil and clench it in your fist. If water squeezes out between your fingers, the soil is too wet for onions to do well. Having an amount of sand mixed in with the soil will help to avoid soggy wet soil because of the increased drainage properties that the sand provides.

In today’s short video, I am simply mixing a quantity of sand with the soil, to provide a nice loamy and well draining loose soil mixture which is best for growing onions.

It’s as simple as this:

Gardening, of any sort, is one of the underlying basic essentials of survival preparedness skills that lead to further self-sufficiency and self-reliance, less dependency on other systems, and definitely adds a level of peace-of-mind that is hard to explain. We challenge you to give it a try

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