Nice onions

[Eristic]

Grew these onions for the first time this year and I am very pleased with them.



Variety is Snowball from DT Brown and can be used raw in salads or cooked in the usual ways. Mild flavour.

[Eristic]

[manicscousers]

they look really good, eristic, lots of our white onions split, some even got grey mould on  :-\

[northener]

They look good can see why they're called snowball.

[grawrc]

They look great! When did you start them off? I'm assuming you grew from seed?

[Eristic]

When did you start them off? I'm assuming you grew from seed?

No. These were grown from sets planted in mid Feb along with sturon and setton. The snowball has bulbed up faster than the others and I've been pulling them for nearly a month now. Do not know how well they keep yet.

[ceres]

Eristic, it looks like you pulled these while the tops are still green.  Is there a reason for not waiting until they die down.  I was wondering about doing it too because my red and normal onions are big and showing no sign of going over (or bolting either!).

[Eristic]

If the weather was more summer-like I would have left them another week or so but another few nights of rain would have been enough for the slugs to eat the tops down to stumps. They are pretty much full grown and unlikely to increase in size significantly.

With gardening in general, the rules are there purely as a guide and judgement calls have to be made on the spot from time to time to take account of prevailing conditions.

[ceres]

Thanks!

[manicscousers]

I'm hoping the slugs don't get to these  ;D

[sawfish]

My onions have been a real failure this year. I'm annoyed I went to all the effort of planting overwintering onions replanting the small onion seedlings in a bed in late autumn with dung and everything else. They were utter crap, staying the same size till today when I hoed them to death. It wouldn't have been so bad if they'd just died, then I'd have known but they just stayed the same and never took off.

Next year I'm sticking to good old sets planted in April.