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I have my minders!
Having posted this - my thoughts are with all of you that are suffering from Mother Nature -   :'(

they still look big!!

(onions not the security)

love it

hee hee  ;D

Love it - but, if you lift the cover a bit, you'll avoid unhelpful condensation??

Mine are going in the art shed. Only dry place I can think of.

Art Shed??

The garden shed is my one with tools and stuff in it. The art shed is a big one that we converted into an art studio for Peter when the lads moved back home and he had to give up his art studio in the house as a bedroom. It is south-facing, so not ideal for painting but protected from glare by the pergola. Anyway I intend to lay the onions out on the large table under the window in the art shed.

Wow, they're big aren't they  :o  ;D

We lifted a load of our onions tonight (between rain showers  ::) ) and they're not as big as i'd expected, but hoping the ones we've left in might swell a bit more by the time we need them - unless of course they just rot in situ  ::)

Since they were so wet I lifted them all. There's 4 or 5 tiddlers but most of them are pretty good.

Tim was right about them needing more air but I don't think the cover would have stood this week's deluge had I raised it.  Last week I brought them in, took off the soggy wet outers down to the white and put them on hangers in the kitchen.  Being the overwintering variety I'm not expecting a long shelf life anyway.  Had to dig up half the shallots too, so have given them the same treatment.

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do the thick neck onions dry?

Don't think so Cam but as we use them most days, not really expecting them to totally dry out - just not rot and be wasted  :)

No Cambourne7. Use the thick necks first.

I have done that why i was asking :-)

Thanks, Anne.

My overwintering onions are massive this year, and so is the elephant garlic, which I lifted at the weekend. So far the garlic's pretty good as well, but the spring planted onions are rubbish, unless they put on some very fast weight before they keel over.