Autumn started onions just keep getting bigger

[quanglewangle]

My autumn started onions, Senshyu, would usually be ready to pull up and put on greenhouse staging to ripen by now.

But this year they are still growing. I am pretty sure it's not second growth, where they go green in the middle. And they are getting very big - nothing wrong with that I suppose.

Should I just leave then until they tell me they are ready?

[burnie]

My seed grown Red Mammoths are still growing, I will leave them until the tops fall over.

[quanglewangle]

My seed grown Red Mammoths are still growing, I will leave them until the tops fall over.

I guess I'll do the same, but I can see them being in the ground for going on ten months at this rate.

[greenishfing]

I have just pulled mine and they are laid on the soil. They did keel over eventually and a few did go to seed. I'll move them to the greenhouse before any rain appears. The maincrop are still growing strongly.

[Galexa40]

All my red onions went to seed very quickly falling to the ground. I blame the weather

[Mr Bones]

Might be worth pulling one or two to check inside QW. Once they're a decent size we tend to pick our autumn onions as and when they're needed or until the weather/white rot looks to be set against them. Ours are used as an early crop before maincrop are ready.

[quanglewangle]

So is it OK to pull still-growing onions? There are too many to use immediately. Will they just wilt and ripen normally if pulled "early"?

I have room in the greenhouse to get them in if the fine weather breaks.

[Mr Bones]

Still growing onions (sometimes called green onions) are sweet and mild (think spring onion only the same amount of flavour spread into a much bigger bulb). If pulled early they will eventually ripen but you will be eating your way through them as they cure - for us that's half the fun..

[quanglewangle]

Still growing onions (sometimes called green onions) are sweet and mild (think spring onion only the same amount of flavour spread into a much bigger bulb). If pulled early they will eventually ripen but you will be eating your way through them as they cure - for us that's half the fun..

Too scary.