Japanese Onion - Advice please

[Mothy]

This is the very 1st time we have grown Japanese onions - they've been in since last August. They have been starting to "bulb" up for about 2 weeks, when can we expect to be able to lift them?

[Mothy]

[Merry Tiller]

You can lift them as soon as they are the size you want, only lift what you'll use straight away though, they don't keep that well

[Mothy]

Many thanks MT.....we are now at the end of last years main onions so they will soon come in very useful indeed.

They do look very green at the moment though!

[Merry Tiller]

Green is OK, they'll still taste good

[supersprout]

Many thanks MT.....we are now at the end of last years main onions so they will soon come in very useful indeed.

They are recommended by some people as the 'standby' - green or not - in the months between the last of the old onions and the first of the new. Having failed with spring onions AGAIN, japanese onions seem like a good all rounder.

[Curryandchips]

Just that, a filler until the maincrop is available. I see them as edible as soon as they are big enough to be worth lifting.

[angle shades]

my japanese onions started to bolt  last week so I took the flowering stem out. I have now noticed some of my onions are going slimy and rotting  >:( has all the rain we've had in the last 3 days gone down the stem or have I got the dreaded onion rot :-\ :-\ How are everyone elses? thanx/shades :-*

[suzylou]

Mine put up flower shoots too - on the advice of my lottie neighbour I lifted them, dried them out for a few days (on newspaper at home as it's been so wet) and then tidied them up (cut off the flower stalk and roots) but didn't wash them.

They seem to be keeping okay at the moment, and they taste great ;)

Not sure what happens if you cut the stalks and leave them in the ground, but I was told not to do that ;)

[saddad]

I snap out the flower stalks as soon as I see them, sometimes not soon enough, and havenot had any problems with rots so I'll have to have a look at the weekend. Not allowed down the lottie for a week as I took to juggling with a cold frame light , which broke, in last night's hailstorm trying to protect the Toms that I was starting to harden off, and got a trip to Casualty for my troubles!
:(

[angle shades]

thanks for replying , been to lotty today and they are still rotting away nicely >:(/shades  :-*

[Mothy]

Just thought you might like to see a piccy of the Japanese onions that we have been eating for 2 weeks now.
Mild taste & very nice in a salad or with cheese.  ;D

[sammyd]

mm nice looking onions.....


ive been growing japenese onions to and was a wondering when they ready to eat..

got the answer now thanks

:D ;D :) ;)