17-05-2025
East Texas onion season looking good as harvest begins
MT. SELMAN, Texas (KETK) – After a late start to planting due to a cold wet winter, Noonday onions are ready for picking and the season is looking up.
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'Had a few hard rains on them, but they are actually doing real good this year, looks like it's probably going to be a bumper crop,' Buckley Farms owner, Tim Buckley said.
Last year, Buckley Farms in Mt. Selman and The Farmer's Garden in Winona saw a plentiful crop, but the onions were on the small side.
'I think we're going to do a little better this year. Last year we had a lot of the smaller ones, and I think we'll have more big ones this year,' The Farmer's Garden owner Bethany Reynolds said.
The good weather this spring got everything back on track.
'We had one cold spell on them after we set them out, and it kind of set them back a little bit, but other than that, we've the weather has really cooperated with us,' Buckley said.
A little sunshine wouldn't hurt their crops now though.
'Actually, going to need it to be a little bit hot and dry for a few days so we can get them harvested. What we do is we go through and pull them and just lay them on the ground to finish drying in the sun, so we'll need some hot, dry days coming up very soon,' Reynolds said.
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After years of ups and downs due to weather, Buckley Farms said a good crop is a blessing.
'You hate to tie up a bunch of money, people don't realize how much money you put in a crop, and you expect to get something out of it. You know? And when you have a failure, you've lost, and it looks like this is going to be a pretty good crop this year,' Buckley said.
Both farmers are looking forward to beginning harvest in the next few weeks.
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