“If you have to decide what to protect from a frost or freeze, unless it might get below 10F, your onions will be just fine.”
You are a big help to me - if you say it, I listen and learn. Right now the potting soil in the containers where the onions will be planted, is soup due to all the rain. If I planted them, they would float.
I didn’t do anything all winter for the Walking Onions and they were looking terrific before this hit - they had decided it was spring and they were ready to do something. I hope they still look that way but I can’t look today as I have quilts and netting blocking my way to get back there.
Hopefully, tomorrow, I’ll take all the protection off the plants and see what I have. Those four Homemade Pickles cucumbers didn’t look good since I transplanted them, so I have just planted six more seeds in cups under the grow lamp. Although the plants are covered out there, I expect them to be totally flat in their containers.
Onions don’t like wet feet. Hopefully they’ll dry out soon. My garlic survived outside with low temps of 5F and 8F this winter. Leeks are very hardy as well.
You might get some leek and onion seeds this summer sometimes and start them in one of those flat planting trays with 200+ little divots in them. Sometime in September or so. Then about 4-6w later transplant them out an appropriate distance apart. You should have worry free garden stuff this next winter. Be sure to choose ‘short day’ onions. Anything labeled ‘vidalia type’ or ‘granex’ should be fine as are ‘Red Creole’. Green onions will be fine through your winter also. Johnny Seeds has some short day onions and Baker Creek has 2 different kinds IIRC.