[New shoot]

What do we think about doing it all again next year? 

I already have seeds on standby ready for sowing either Boxing Day or New Years Day    If people are interested I'll set up a 2015 thread 

[mumofstig]

Yes, please miss 

[surbie100]

I'm in - not that I know where to put them, but I picked up a packet of ailsa craig in the 50p sale *by accident*...and I've never grown onions before.

Will be growing a tiny amount - please don't laugh...

This can only be better than my attempts at sweet potatoes.

[New shoot]

Yes, please miss 

Do I remember you saying you were going to try them at home next year?  I know you have had white rot problems on the plot   

I'm going through mine far too fast, so I have a succession of seeds to do next year - Globo for the earliest, Jaune des Cevennes (sweet white onion) and Rossa Lunga di Firenze (long red onion) for March or April sowings   

[mumofstig]

Yes, I'll be growing Long Red Florence like you, in my garden..... tis the only way 

[beesrus]

I'm well into growing onion seed seriously this next year for the first time, now I think I've got the hang of it.
Ailsa Craig and Globo for me. I've still got some Autumn sets in the ground though

[cadalot]

Please add me on that one, I just love growing and eating Onions

[LotuSeed]

Count me in for 2015. I've grown from sets in the past but not gotten decent sized results. I'm going to give growing from seed a go. 

[DD.]

Yes, I'll be growing Long Red Florence like you, in my garden..... tis the only way 

I've got a terrible problem. I grew a couple of hundred of those. Without exception they all started shooting again very soon after drying off and I have mass of greenery and the bulbs wasting away. The other onions are fine.

[New shoot]

Oh no - what a shame   

I've had quite a few of mine do that, but we've managed to eat most of them up before they were wasted.  Its been a mix of the ones I grew, rather than 1 particular variety.

[jaydig]

Last year I sowed mine in a cold greenhouse the week after Christmas. No heat, no propagator, just covered with a plastic bag. It was quite a mild winter, though, but the seedlings survived, and I had a great crop of onions that didn't bolt.

I'll be growing from seed again this year, there's far more choice of variety than when growing from sets, and they don't seem to bolt.

[LotuSeed]

Heat treated onion sets are supposed to be less prone to bolting. Just an FYI   

[mumofstig]

Yes, I'll be growing Long Red Florence like you, in my garden..... tis the only way 

I've got a terrible problem. I grew a couple of hundred of those. Without exception they all started shooting again very soon after drying off and I have mass of greenery and the bulbs wasting away. The other onions are fine.

It's the warm weather, making them worse than normal - all my potatoes have long sprouts on already, as well 

[AnneB]

This year I am growing Yellow Rynsburger again, it did well for me this year, and trying Roscoff and Long Red Florence for the first time. 

I have also found an ancient packet of Rouge Pale de Niort.  They didn't do well when I tried them before, so I am just going to sling them in and see if anything happens.  After this year, I think I have more idea about how to grow them now.

[Steveharford]

Let us know how you get on with the Roscoff AnneB as I tried these 2 years running and they failed to germinate. I notice the supplier, Robinsons no longer list them so maybe they had problems with them.