This year I was on top of things with planting my onions ... maybe a little too on top of it. As soon as plants and bulbs came in to our local feed store in mid-February, I bought what I needed and started planting my Vandalia onion plants. With two more varieties to plant, a winter storm, probably the worst of the 2012-13 season, blew in. This was a long winded storm lasting about 2 weeks. During which we received 6-8 inches of sleet/snow and fairly cold weather.
I had mulched the onion plants but the cold had taken some of the tops off. I'm not confident about my accessment of the Vandalia onion plants survival but the bulbs didn't seem to freeze and there is a small amount of green remaining at the base of the leaves. Time will tell.
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