Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: jolly jen on July 23, 2010, 10:05
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I would love to know how everyone's onion's are this year ....my havent done too well ,not that big,
last year they were fab,
im in the south ,
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Mine are a bit rubbish as well this year. They are not helped by something trying to dig half of them up every other evening :(
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Mine aren't too bad. They're about the size of a tennis ball, but I ordered 100 sets of sturion and actually got 122. I squeezed them into the space I had allocated for 100 and now I'm struggling to weed inbetween them. A lesson learned for next year.
I've loosened the roots on a few when weeding this morning so I'm expecting them to stop growing now. I'll dry them off. Just end up with a few smaller ones. :)
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I have just being laying out my second crop of onions to dry on the garden table. They have done really well I had a really fine return from the overwintering ones and these are the psring planted ones with one late crop to come in August. Luckily one of the OH's friends platts really well so once dry I will have strings of onions all over the kitchen and front porch. This is my first full year and everyone on the plot seems to have done really well with onions. It must be the soil which is heavy and clay.
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Most of mine are fine; not a bad size............however, a few have split underneath and new shoots is appearing around the root ball :ohmy: Can anyone explain that one?
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Struggled all year with onions. Winter planted onions got mildew which spread to the spring planted onions. Mildew is a b----r to control once established. The onions have bulbed up OK but look a bit weary. Hope they dry and keep OK! My other Alliums, garlic, got rust which again is devil to control. Leeks also showing signs of a bit of rust and the variety is meant to be rust resistant. Still it wouldn't be the same without a challenge or two :wacko:
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Ours were all on the small side, disappointing compared to what we could normally expect. We overwintered for the first time.
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My onions are still quite small and have no sign of turning brown yet, think i'll leave the in for a little longer and see what happens.
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Just harvested ours today - Sturon.
Of 100 sets -
4 were rotting so thrown.
82 are good - various sizes but mostly good and now drying in my wire garden trolley
The other 14 need to be used now as they have some damage so will caramilise them tonight.
These were planted closely 4" apart (both ways) made weeding awkward but also kept weeds down.
First time growing onions so very pleased.
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my over wintered onions all done nothing had to pull them out...1st time this has happened
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mine are looking a bit small this year, lack of water i think
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............however, a few have split underneath and new shoots is appearing around the root ball :ohmy: Can anyone explain that one?
Yes. Alliums propagate by division, seed and bulbil. Yours are just trying to propagate themselves.
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Planted mine in March and they are great.
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rather small onions this year, bit disappointing but still edible :D
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Mine are rubbish, both reds and whites are the same size as when planted, but the plot next to mine are large, did put some reds in much later and seem to be getting bigger. :( :(
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We've pulled about 40 today, I left the sets to long before planting but they have survivied pretty well. only lost about 4 or 5.
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Ours all had to come out last week, had either whit rot or black mould (according to the site old girl who knows what she is doing) lots are soft and squishy, the red barons seem ok but the whites going to check tomorrow and see what has been saved - and apparently can't grow onions in the same spot for 7 years now :(
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One of one of my three varieties has started to turn yellow. We've had nothing but drought here, although I've watered them once or twice a week.
How come you lot have harvested all yours already? I'm getting worried ...
Just taken the first flower head off one ... not bad me thinks :) All grown from seed.
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mine were red barons and some were good and some were not. i noticed the ones that tend to grow big have a thin stem and only about 30cm long but the ones that grow small small tend to grow very long and thick stems. Next year i will try white onions but just push the root part in and not all the way in and cover it with net to keep those pesky birds away >:(