Well don’t let my seedling failure dishearten you. I am a newbie and haven’t yet started anything inside with more than pitiable results.
I’m trying the seed route with onions
A: because it’s a lot cheaper.
B: it’s self-sufficient (heritage seeds).
C: suspect the sets I buy are ‘long day’ and I’m in a ‘mid day’ area.
Want eventually to plant seeds in fall and overwinter them.
I’d like that too. I like to plant stuff in the fall. Other than for potatoes, I hate spring planting. I just want it all to magically sprout up in the spring with out getting out into the damp and chilly weather.
That’s why I like daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths etc.
O, onions! We grew them last year, but I can’t recall if they were from seed or sets. Anyway, we had a decent harvest, but most were small. We still have a lot of teeny ones and plan to plant them. The seed box my husband started looked beautiful until he brought it upstairs. The dining table doesn’t get enough sunlight, but he ignores me.
I really got a tremendous kick out of using our own onions all winter long. For some reason I find the onions to be the most satisfying of the “I grew it myself” veg. Probably because I use onions in nearly everything. :) Plus - virtually no processing to store!