Overwintering onions

[shirlton]

Has anyone else still got their overwintering onions in?

[shirlton]

[manicscousers]

just taken the last ones of ours out, now taking the shallots out  ;D

[shirlton]

Our Radar are ready but the swift are very small. Won't be growing them again. Gonna put the fork under them tomorrow and probably lift the lot later in the week. We have been eating some of them but the majority are still in.

[grannyjanny]

Hi Manics when did you plant your shallots. I planted ours late march & early april & they are floppy & the shoots are looking brown. Is it to soon to take them up.

[hopalong]

Took my overwintering onions out a week ago (some huge ones) and most of my shallots yesterday. will be sowing more carrots and lettuce, and maybe more beetroot, in the space. Traditional crop rotations tends to got out of the window at this time of year.

[manicscousers]

Hiya, janet, these are the overwintered ones, our spring sown are still in the ground  :)
I agree, hopalong, I've sowed beetroot, kohl rabi, green and purple and some lettuce where the onions have come up  :)

[lewic]

I've still got most of mine in, planted in November-ish, they are red ones but cant remember what type. The biggest are about tennis ball size, and they are still growing, show no sign of dying off or going to seed.

[OllieC]

Mine are out - so would the shallots be if I could bend over!

[betula]

Train the offspring ;D

I miss having little helpers :)

[Flighty]

I didn't grow any overwintering ones but I pulled one of my spring sets, Turbo I think, today and had cheese and onion sandwiches!

[saddad]

Mine are still "in" waiting for the "Derby in Bloom" judging (Wednesday!)
;D

[kt.]

I pulled most of mine up yesterday.  Left about 10 in, just waiting for the stems to die back.  Some medium size and others like mini-footballs.

[Deb P]

I had one bed of overwintered onions, red electric, silvermoon and jap. yellow. All did ok, bulbs not as big as past years but ok. I pulled mine last week, let them dry out a bit on the soil and they are now in the shed, we ate eating some of the more misshapen ones!

Shallots I pulled yesterday with mixed results. All of the Jermor were great, big bulbs. The Enshallot Grise I was less impressed with, about 1/3 of the crop had white rot, not badly just a bit of fuzz on the roots (none of the Jermor did, growing in the same bed, are they resistant perhaps??) and bulbs are much smaller but more numerous. Lesson learnt: I'm only planting Jermor later this year!

[Barnowl]

My eschallottes grises could definitely have used some more water - they had split ok  but each bulb was pretty small. Am I right that there was no point in leaving them in as the foliage had died off?

[cornykev]

My Japs were out weeks ago with mixed results, I have taken out some of the shallots and will probably get the rest out tonight, before some other bugger does.   ???       ;D ;D ;D