Growing onions next year - can anyone help?

Don't think you'll have to much to worry about, onions don't get blight potato's and tomato's do

Go for sets they are easier, all they are are small onions heat treated to stop it developing so when you plant it give's you a head start.

Bury them so just the tips are showing blunt end, down sharp end poking up about march time in weed free fertile soil easy  

Hi, i am planning to grow some onions next year.
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What is all this about "sets".
Any light anyone can shed would be appreciated.

You grow onions one of two ways - from seed, and from 'sets'.

Onion sets look a bit like shallots; they are small onion bulbs and you plant them the same way as any other bulb, as has been mentioned already.

If you are growing to eat then its sets   all the way down the line. If you are growing for SIZE ie to show 'em off! Then its seed.  Some parts of the country suffer from Onion White Fly (which attacks the root/base and you find little white maggots) Onions grown from seed are more susceptible to white fly attack.......   manure the bed and also....