Topic: POTATO ONIONS WANTED

[woodypecks]

I would really love to get some Potato Onions going in my veg  garden , with a view to seriously propagating them , sharing them , for free  and getting them back into our English veg plots .
I know it will take a few years to do this, but I want to have a go .
  I am begging , could someone kindly start me off with even just one or two please ? I,d pay the postage .
 I have been sharing out my Amish walking onions , for free  and I have a few left to swap with , although these will be better now if I send in the Spring  .
 Any ideas I,d be so grateful . Debbie    Private message me thankyou .

[squeezyjohn]

I'm afraid I can't help ... my whole crop put on very little growth and rotted in the ground in such a wet and grey summer.  I put 3 years in to getting them there from seed, but the ones I raised from Kelly Winterton's seeds seemed too fussy for the British weather.

I hope you have better luck in your quest ... they sound like a perfect solution ... I'd love for there to be a potato onion that are well here and made decent sized onions.

[daveyboi]

You can buy them from here

http://www.poyntzfieldherbs.co.uk/catalogue2.asp?searchterm=Allium&submitButtonName=Search

Being grown in Scotland should mean they are  well suited for the UK

[Ellen K]

Sorry I don't grow them but there is a guy on ebay who sells them and I'm often tempted to give them a go.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/the.onion.man/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3692

[woodypecks]

Squeezyjohn - I ,m so sorry to hear that !  I,m determined to give it a go too .

[woodypecks]

Hallo again , I am now sorted for my Potato Onion Propagation Mission , many thanks !   Hopefully I ,ll get 'em going and then be able to pass them on .    one very happy Woodypecks  ( actually its lashing down with rain here ! )

[Robert_Brenchley]

Please do save seed if you get any! Even a few seeds could produce something interesting.