Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: grendel on August 10, 2012, 15:06
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ok earlier this year I planted a few trays of onion seeds, what with the weather and everything nothing got done with them, I now have a couple of trays of tiny onions (about 1cm max) what do I do next, obviously they will be planted out next year, but when do I harvest them and store them over winter?
Grendel
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well i did my kelsae an globo from seed,,sowed in dec just lifting them now,quiet big too
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I did the same with the last lot of onions I sowed, left them in the tray and they're tiny :unsure: so I'm eager to hear what advice you get.
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I could be wrong here, but if you've any chance of getting something from them next year, you've got to let them go dormant and produce a set.
You'll need to harvest them, dry them off and re plant next year. If you let them carry on as they are, they'll go through their full cycle and all you'll end up with is tiny onions.
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I did both, seed and sets, the seed ones seem to have done better, they never bolted like the set onions, and because of that there bigger now, and i am happy to say, i put a lot more seed in than sets, so i have a very nice crop
I could be wrong here,
Now your just being silly
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The main point here is that they were left crowded in a seed tray and never planted out. This is one of the key factors in producing onion sets.
We're not doing comparisons on this thread between correctly sown and then planted seed and onion sets.
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when do we harvest them? now? or leave them until the leaves die down a bit?
Grendel
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I repeat that I'm no expert here, but I'd stop them in their tracks now. If you wait until they start to die down, they'll have gone full circle and I think they'd only run to seed when they start growing again.