Yey - in a bad kind of way.

[Nicky]

I was watching the tele this morning and found out that there is a national shortage of onions as the weather was so bad this year whole crops failed.
Whole crops produced by specialist onion growers......
I don't feel so bad that I only got anout 7 onions out of my whole crop last year now - wasn't just me being crap at looking after them.
On the up side my shalotts that I thought I'd planted too late did really well so I'm using those instead of buying onions. Only down side to that is it takes longer to peel them as you have to do more to get the same amount to cook.
They're really nice though so apart from my winter onions I'm not growing any others, I'm growing loads of shalotts instead.

[shirlthegirl43]

I find you don't need so many shallots to get the same flavour effect as onions - watch out!!!

[The Doctor]

I had exactly the reverse. Most of my shallots went rotten and I lost them, and when I lifted my onions they were all soft so I thought I was going to loose them too.

But, most of them dried out nicely. I used the ones that stayed soft first and I only lost three going soft in storage. Used the last one of about fifty last weekend!

[bluemoon]

I don't understand this, we had the best crop of onions ever and huge shallots, which my son roasted (delicious). Our main problem was preventing the onions from growing so huge that they split, we still have loads left in store as I'm only having to use one when I'd normally use two. The leeks, on the other hand, haven't been at all impressive and I'm using three where one would normally do. Gardening, eh?

[snake the squadie]

yep i had no problems either last year. i also planted some over winter onions aswell. wasnt happy at the time as it was a reali crap day but i am feeling quite smug now.