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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: allot2learn on October 05, 2012, 21:56

Title: Onion sets..........
Post by: allot2learn on October 05, 2012, 21:56: 14/21 or 21/24???????????

Could some kind person please explain the difference?
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: DD. on October 05, 2012, 22:03: Bulb size in millimeters.
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: allot2learn on October 05, 2012, 22:16: Quote from: DD. on October 05, 2012, 22:03
Bulb size in millimeters.

Ahh.............. Thank you! :)
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: compostqueen on October 05, 2012, 22:53: The packaging could be more helpful though couldn't it :)
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: allot2learn on October 05, 2012, 23:34: Quote from: compostqueen on October 05, 2012, 22:53
The packaging could be more helpful though couldn't it :)

One would have thought so. Maybe I should polish my crystal ball. (There again, I could enter the lottery and not have to grow onions.) :)
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: fatcat1955 on October 06, 2012, 00:01: The smaller the set the better the onion, so they say.
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: m1ckz on October 06, 2012, 07:04: errr who says :tongue2:
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: DD. on October 06, 2012, 07:53: A few people university of Illinois for one:

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/onion.cfm

Larger sets are also more prone to bolting.
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: allot2learn on October 06, 2012, 09:04: Quote from: DD. on October 06, 2012, 07:53
A few people university of Illinois for one:

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/onion.cfm

Larger sets are also more prone to bolting.

............and, as they're sold by weight, you get more for your money with the little one's.
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: DD. on October 06, 2012, 09:05: Exactly!
Title: Re: Onion sets..........
Post by: fatcat1955 on October 06, 2012, 09:08: That's what i call "A Brucie bonus"