[MoreWhisky]

My Japanese Onions have started to fill out nicely this last week, they are already bigger than golf balls. Am really looking forward to them being ready after all this time.

How are everybody elses?  as i seem to be the only one growing them on our site.

[peapod]

Loads of people have grown them this year on my site.  They seem to be the new onion trend!

 I tried them a couple of years ago, but for me they bolted too easily, and after talking to other growers they found the same happened with theirs.

Good luck!

[SarahB]

Similar size - we ate one the other day.  I've never grown them before, and was surprised how like spring onions they are!  A couple of years ago I left some White Lisbon in a raised bed and they went full size over winter - very similar end result, which makes me wonder why I bothered with Japanese onion sets!  

[sunshineband]

The white lisbons we grew in a morrisons pot last year got forgotten in the winter.

They were over an inch across when I found them last week and were very tasty indeed 

Not winter white, just normal ones 

[solway cropper]

Like peapod some of mine bolted but not before they'd put on enough size to be useful. I just bunged em in soup and stews. I still have some growing from last October which are now between golf ball and tennis ball size. They will give an earlier crop but I'm not sure if it's worth taking up the space when onions are so cheap anyway. Same with overwintered beans...mine are no further on than this years sown

[lmpd]

got japanese onions on the plot and at home, the ones at home are a lot bigger, yet i've never fed them


.....and yet to eat one

[Paul Plots]

Japanese onions do not store well so fill a gap before the main crop are ready. The JO can be eaten as you need them rather than needing to wait until June time to lift all in one go.

Mine are mostly piddly size this year (so far). Last year they were very respectable - different patch of land so this and the cold weather (late planting??) may be the cause.   

[hogwarden]

 :)Yep-got some of those. planted them as shop seedlings in Sept. and now have these big spring onion type. The info. on the box said protect from frost but i forgot and they survived all through?-starting to throw up flower spikes now -so time to get them eaten.

[DD.]

They shouldn't need protecting from frost - that's why they're planted for over wintering.

Chop those flower spikes off, they will take energy from the bulb.

[Paul Plots]

:)Yep-got some of those. planted them as shop seedlings in Sept. and now have these big spring onion type. The info. on the box said protect from frost but i forgot and they survived all through?-starting to throw up flower spikes now -so time to get them eaten.

Are you sure they were Japanese onion sets? May have been made in China if they came ready sprouted and stated to protect from frost  - Very strange  :blink: