red onion harvest

[donnythistle]

im so plaese with my harvest of red onions i wanted to share my photo. First year on my plot and 43lb of my favourites. yum yum!

[donnythistle]

[Unwashed]

They do look lovely.  I find them so difficult to grow without them going to seed, and red onions are really nice so it's a shame.  Great harvest.

[betula]

Great  ;D

[pumkinlover]

That's a good harvest you should be well chuffed!

[lincsyokel2]

The going to seed problem can be helped by planting in stages.

I plant 250 rd and 250 white to overwinter.

Next early march i replace all the gaps. Then about mid april i plant another 100.

I end up with onions in 3 stages, and if one lot go thick necked  the other two dont.

The ones  that do go thick necked, i remove the core and dice and freeze them.

[chriscross1966]

If you grow from seed then it's very rare for them to bolt, although this year, for the first time ever in 20-odd years of growing onions from seed I had a handful bolt.... never seen it before....

[cornykev]

Reds don't do it for me either they always seem to bolt, not one yellow bolted this year for the first time, nice one Donny.  ;D

[shirlton]

What an achievement.We have never had any success with reds. They seem to stay small.

[Alex133]

Great reds - what variety are they and did you grow from seed or sets? (Your stringing is also rather impressive :))

[donnythistle]

was really chuffed as they were from morrisons £1 for a bag of about 30.

[brown thumb]

well done lovely reds agood return for the money  spent lot of  mine has gone to seed, mine was the pound shop so was the whites but they did better

[Mr Smith]

The Red Onions we have grown this year have been excellent, we bought the sets  from 'Wilkinson's',  I have also found a nursery that specialises in Onions so we will be trying some varieties that we have not grown before, :)

[chriscross1966]

The Red Onions we have grown this year have been excellent, we bought the sets  from 'Wilkinson's',  I have also found a nursery that specialises in Onions so we will be trying some varieties that we have not grown before, :)

Ooh.... where?.... I've had problems with onion white rot this year but still have an acceptable crop of Long Red Florence and Kamal, both grown from seed... start in modules in February, plant out mid to late April....

chrisc

[Mr Smith]

Try,
             http://www.mammothonion.co.uk/