Onion Set Storage

[mpdjulie]

I have just bought online from Kings Seeds - 150 sets of sturon, 150 sets of red baron and 150 sets of yellow moon shallots.  Last year was my first growing year and I was very late in buying my onions so they were planted more or less straight away.   Obviously this year I have bought early but I don't know how or where to store them.  Can anyone enlighten me please?
Julie
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[mpdjulie]

[kt.]

I usually just keep mine in the shed. 

[cornykev]

Somewhere cool and dark, mine go in a brown paper bag not in a plastic one.   ;D ;D ;D

[Tee Gee]

As cornkev says cool and dark but more importantly a steady temperature.

Fluctuating temperatures can cause condensation which can set the setts off so and don't keep then in a plastic bag.

I just hang the string bag they come in up in a wardrobe in the spare room where the air can get all around them.

[PurpleHeather]

DONT put them in the shed. I have just got the ones set aside for storage out of ours (been doing it for 40 years) and they are frozen solid so that I will need to cook them to keep them in the freezer now. It has never happened before.


-18 degrees is not an ideal place to keep them.


In these unusual conditions I suggest that you store them in the coolest place in the house or they will be frozen to death in a shed.

Your fridge is probably warmer.

[Robert_Brenchley]

That's my worry at the moment; everything's frozen solid. I'm not sure it's very much warmer in the ground either.

[Peasticks]

I found a few of last years onion setts loose in the greenhouse when I cleaned it out recently, they had frozen and thawed so were just 'hollow' I have stored my recently purchsed ones in a paper bag in a kitchen cupboard