[New shoot]

I weeded mine today, so took a piccie while they were all pristine and lovely looking 



There is a bit of difference in some of the sizes, but I'm happy enough with them so far 

[Annen]

They look good.  Its okay to have different sizes, sometimes you want small onions, sometimes you want big

[Totty]

Pulled the first of the big ones today with a circ of 20 inches. I'll get some pics tomorrow.

Totty

[bravemurphy]

A fair few of my Bedfordshire champs have bolted 

[Totty]

All the squat shaped ones are getting pulled at this size. Around 4.5 pound. The taller ones will get left to see if I can get close to 8 pound. Weekly feeds of low nitrogen, and foliar feeding with seaweed is all they get in terms of moisture now.

Totty

[trunk monkey]

I have tried onions from seed a few times; they seem to germinate ok but then find various ways to die. However, I have had more success this year and I have some superb specimens of Bedfordshire Champion growing on the plot  . The plants look healthier than the Sturon and Stuttgarter that I have grown from sets.
Trunky

[Motivator]

Great onions Totty , I have some growing down my allotment Kelsae , So far bulbing up very nicely.
The other thing i tried was my own Kelsae sets. Planted late June last year grown on to set size bulbs,
then dried right out . I stored them over the winter in my pantry and they all came through. I planted them in pots mid Feb and planted them out late March. So far they have been superb, Really large bulbs .

I will post some pics over the weekend.

[AnneB]

Well I am converted to onions from seed now.   My summer planted sets, Stuttgarter Giant and Red Baron have all finished very early.   Several seem to have white rot and a handful had allium leaf miner.    Neither of these problems were on the plot before.   I think the sets brought the white rot with them, I am not sure if they can bring allium leaf miner?   

My Yellow Rynsburger onions and Zebrune shallots are all lovely specimens though and are still going strong.  They seem unaffected by these other problems.   I shall certainly be growing from seed again, and I am starting on 18th August with some overwintering Early Paris White.

[Totty]

Most of my big ones are up now. 20in + around.

Totty

[sunshineband]

My set planted onions have all finished now -- some ran to seed but most just had their foliage fold over and that was that!!

The seed sown individuals are still growing away, even though I had to cut off a  lot of their leaves due to mildew, and some are a reasonable size. Not as large as Totty's of course, but decent enough in my eyes 

[luke34]

Kelsae onions from seed and grow outside

[rosiecider]

They look fantastic pudding my onion ignorance but why the string ?

[luke34]

They look fantastic pudding my onion ignorance but why the string ?

help keep them growing  upright .I put it on a while back.

[Eblana]

I am converted.  My OH has always been giving out that our onions were too small, I tried some seed sown onions this year and I have some really lovely sized onions and they are still going strong (the foliage on the sets flopped two weeks ago), I heard mutterings of at long last we have gotten decent sized onions!!!.  My one regret is that I only sowed a small amount as a trial.

Our local discount store had cat trays on sale last week for 50c so I bought a couple and I have the seed ordered.  I thought my OH was going to choke the other day when I announced that I would be sowing them on New Years Eve

[New shoot]

Yay    Well done you on a good harvest

Mine are slowly getting there and I have a mix of sizes, but Globbo has performed the best.  I picked up another pack in the half price seed sale at Garden Centre Group the other day.  They didn't have many and I wasn't sure they would make it to the 50p sale.

I also bought some overwintering onion seeds.  I've always done sets before, but going to have a go