[smc]

has any body or do any of you pot on your onion sets when you get them?    was thinking about it today, you put them in and for me they stay weak for a while and are open and not strong enough to deal with the elments and pests for a good few weeks, i was gonna try paper pots?  i have been hit this year with onion fly on my red barron and fen early whites, any body else?

[DD.]

Straight into the ground at due time.

No molly- coddlinging!

[fatbelly]

Straight into the ground at due time.

No mollycoddling ing!

Done this for the past three years that I have had a Lottie and it werks a treat for me. My problem is storing the beggars. Last season i cut the tops off directly after harvesting  and they all rotted within a month.

[mumofstig]

you won't be doing that again will you 

[fatbelly]

you won't be doing that again will you 

Definitely a case of once bitten twice shy.
I did it because i wanted them to fit in the boot of the car easier to take home and thought if I take the tops off it will make more space   

[Aunt Sally]

[ Last season i cut the tops off directly after harvesting  and they all rotted within a month.

Didn't you ripen them ?

[AndyRVTR]

String em' up and hang em' high... 

[DD.]

And what about the onions? 

[AndyRVTR]

And what about the onion :lol:s?

Those too if there's room on that thar tree... yee haaaaaaa!!