be quick buying japanese onion sets

[purplevegman]

there is a shortage of japanese onion sets.i have been told because suttons are not doing them anymore.why not !!!

[danmon_81]

suttons are taking a while to send mine....i ordered them beginning of the month....and i've walked past a few in local garden centres and not bought!!!

[Capsid]

I posted about this in another thread. I couldn't get any from Wilkos and was advised there was a shortage.

[MaureenHall]

Glad I got mine as soon as they were in then!! Only got 50, but trying various other onions as well so don't want to get overloaded and not have room to grow anything else

[BrideXIII]

they still have them advertised on morgans, i didn't order any , but they were definately there, cos i had read this thread just prior to ordering sets for reds and whites, some duo combo morgans had that i fancied trying as my first go.
still, advertised is not the same as actually having them.

[Capsid]

they still have them advertised on morgans, i didn't order any , but they were definately there, cos i had read this thread just prior to ordering sets for reds and whites, some duo combo morgans had that i fancied trying as my first go.
still, advertised is not the same as actually having them.

The T&M catalogue order is for next year (September 2009 delivery), I thought.

[BrideXIII]

The T&M catalogue order is for next year (September 2009 delivery), I thought.

could well have been, its the first time i have been on there, and quite frankly despite having lovely growing conditions down here, i am in an industrial wasteland deviod of a shop stocking seeds.

i need to get a hang of this online ordering thingy.

[andrewo]

If any of you live near Gordon Riggs in Todmorden they had big bags there for 99p for sowing.

[quark1]

I wonder if the poor conditions this summer - OK the period between March and September! - is the reason?

When I bought my spuds from T&M this year they only had around 3 of 15 or so varieties available of onions and shallots due to the rotting in storage. If the experts are unable to get these things right - then the bad summer for out crops is perhaps not so bad.

[lynda66]

i'm not buying any anyway, i've got about 50 onion plants from seeds, so hopefully, they will be ok, but i agree, if the experts aren't doing so well, then if we produce any, that means we're doing ok,

[wiccanlou]

I'm doing well with the whole growing from seed I have about 100 successfully growing at the moment, I won't need that many so if I manage to get enough I would be willing to swap some in a month or so for something.

[Alice]

I can't find any round here. Might have to try on the internet,
Will try Morgans, Bride.
Is that 13 or kiss3, or something else ?

[Novice Gardener]

If any of you live near Gordon Riggs in Todmorden they had big bags there for 99p for sowing.

Totally off topic, but your post made me smile - I'm originally from a place called Mytholmroyd - very near to Tod, no one's heard of it down here

....... right back to them onions.........

blimey, I went to the seed shed that my local lottie forum runs and they said their onions would be in this Sat just gone - popped down there and they now say its gonna be two weeks - i might just start hunting around locally, I don't wanna miss out

[Demeter]

I ordered mine from Dobies ages ago, they haven't turned up yet but then nor have I heard anything from them about availability... perhaps I'll e-mail them!

(NB I think those ordering from catalogue now are ordering for next year - when I checked "last orders" for autumn sets seems to be end of August.)

Still, it's not the end of the world, I've got 4 trays of seed grown onions and most have germinated and are growing away slowly but surely. The germination rate for the North Holland Bloodred Redmate doesn't seem to be as good as the Hi-Keeper (i.e. only about 70% or so) but even so I reckon I've got maybe 75 to 80 onion plants coming along

[BrideXIII]

I can't find any round here. Might have to try on the internet,
Will try Morgans, Bride.
Is that 13 or kiss3, or something else ?

it's 13 but if you turn it on its side it is also a windmill, symbolic of a certain place in my area.

My mum is off to Wyvales today to see if she can pick up our sets there, i'll let you know.