Topic: onions 2007

[manicscousers]

amazing, dried and stored already

[shirlton]

They look great. the bugs got al mine bar a few japs. Am gonna plant them all under enviromesh next year.

[Chris Graham]

mine are still in the ground, gonna leave them till August.

Looking good!

[prink13]

Here's my onions, and shallotts, bothe planted last year from seed, the stalks were eaten by my ducks last autumn, and I thought that they'd had it, and then out of the earth shot some more stalks this spring, and I got a great crop from them - this is about two thirds, still more to pull up.

So it's pickling and chutney making for me this afternoon!  ;D

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k102/prink13/DSC_0772.jpg

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[Deb P]

I like your trug in the second photo!
Good harvest there! ;D

[Mrs Ava]

[Chris Graham]

What kind EJ?

[Mrs Ava]

Japanese over winterers, but I can't remember the exact variety.  I always go for those that are early maturing because I figure the quicker I can get them out of the ground the less likely they are to succumb to the dreaded white rot.  Therefore me thinks they were something like Swift.

[Chris Graham]

Just a few -

Stuttgart Giant (not that large btw)
Red Baron

[Barnowl]

There's something wrong with these pics - where's the rust?

Seriously, is there a way of preventing/inhibiting rust or is it just luck of the draw?

-Great harvests, by the way, and so many similar in size.

[kt.]

amazing, dried and stored already

Mine are tied by the stalks. Dont know how to do the fancy french tieing thingy. Never figured it out.

[greenfingered fiend]

I hope I have interpretted this forum right.

I put a bag of about 100 Setton onion sets in the plot this year (about May) and my yield was...wait for it 100%. I couldn't believe! Everyone kept telling me theirs were awful so the best bit was when someone said I should enter them in to the horticultural show. I couldn't ask for better than first could I - That's what I got - 1st place.

Even the RHS judge asked what I did - I just said that the only thing that I thought it could be was putting them in later than everyone else. He was even more impressed when I told him that I'd never grown onions and it was only my 2nd year on the allotment.

Everyone joked that I ought to leave by the back door incase I got linched.

Cheers for reading.

GF

P.S. I also got a first in the potatoes - I wasn't smug!! LOL

[davyw1]

Well done, Just goes to prove you don,t have to be a specialist to enter a show.