[sclarke624]

Hi
Silver skin onions you can get pickled in jars...............What onion do the come from.  Brown skins, shallots or what?

Thanks.

[Fisherman]

Silver skinned onions are generally  grown from specific seeds: -
Barletta (Marshalls)
Paris (Suttons)
Pompeii (Thompson & Morgan)
Last year I grew White Lisbon spring onions throughout the year in succession for salads. The ones I didn’t use were left in the ground (by accident rather than by design) and they made great little pickling onions.

[chriscross1966]

Borettana are also good, a flattish onion specifically for pickling.
SY300 is the commercial variety.
There used to be one called brown something that was a good pickler.
I had some success this year picklingthe smaller Long Red Florence bulbs too

chrisc

[DD.]

This was asked recently.

The name says it on the tin!

Simple to grow from cheap seed.

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=49779.0

[sclarke624]

Thanks all and DD for Paris silverskin link.

 I sent my partner to the shops for some ready pickled silverskin onions in a jar, but not knowing any better as he doesn't eat them he got silverskin onions in a brown vinegar, which I have never seen before.  Just not the same.  If I do any they will be in white vinegar.

[DD.]

I did 2 x 30' rows of them last year from that packet & still have over half of it left.

[DD.]

Found a photo.

They're the two rows, slightly lighter green, left of centre.

[solway cropper]

Nice photo but, come on....where have you hidden the weeds 

[DD.]

Photoshopped out!