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As it's my 1st year I've not had the opportunity to try overwintered onions yet....anyone got any advice on where to buy, what varieties etc......might save a bit of trial and error.......Thanks.

Hi Mothy, :D
                     I grew the variety radar, these have given excellent results with very little looking after, some of the onions are the size of cricket balls, they are all good quality  & I had no losses from the pack. They are available from most catalogues, usually about £1.95p for a pack. This will give you about  30 bulbs.
     
                                                                  Adrian.

If you have a lotty society they will probably have a bulk buy  :)  The ones I got have been fantastic but I don't know what they were.  It's my first time with them and I have had great results.  I put 60 in and got about 57, with one or two little ones.  The size of some of em  :o :o  I think I'll enter them into the virtual show  ;D   Dug em all up today and left them on the ground to dry.  Dare say it will rain later  :)  They are dead easy to peel and don't sting the eyes too much.  I would deffo get some for this year.  They were Japanese onion sets but I don't know which variety

I bought mine at wilkinsons, cant remember the price but is was impressive, so were the onions, did really well this year.

;D I have some enormous onions growing that I bought from Wilko's, should I have pulled them by now? only the leaves haven't bowed and shrivelled yet ???

Thanks all, Wilko's 1st stop and then a seed catalogue then I guess.

I grew a red variety called Electric I think they were....and they had a tendancu to bolt!  Radar for me!

Let them keep going Roy, they will finish soon anyway. . . you may beat lottie's onions then?  :D

;D Thanks ;)  I'll leave em a couple of weeks then and compare em with Lotties ;D

I got Swift last autumn from the local DIY store and they did much better than any other overwintering onions I've tried. First year I grew Radar and they were tiddly, the second I swore I wouldn't grow overwinterers and then saw a pack going cheap and caved in; grew Senshyu - didn't really do well either as nearly every one bolted and then this year I got the Swift - again cheap, 99p for 75, and they have done fantastically. Only 4/75 bolted. This is apparently one of their plus points, but they don't store as well as Radar.  But in our house that's unlikely to be a problem the rate we get through onions!

moonbells

Jap onion sets were my first planting on my plot and I am thrilled with them.  I have a shed full plus I pulled loads more yesterday as I want the space to grow something else.  Some of the hunions are whoppers (honest)  ;D

i am after red overwintering varieties, that do well (not EJ's then;))

any ideas?

I've tried loads of red ones and haven't found a good overwintering one yet so await any replies with interest.

just bumping ths up.
no red overwintering onions then? :( i dont really want to grow the 'normal' ones but have space for something other than my leeks and garlics to overwinter. wanted to grow red because that is a bit more special than plain onions, and i do have limited space (can you say 'bijou'? ;))

what about long red florence? no good for winter? and if spring planted, what month are we talking about?

thanks
svea

I grew LRF this year, sowed some seed in modules in about Feb, and then some direct in march/eary april. They haven't got massive, but are an okay size. Don't know about overwintering them though  ???