getting myself in a pickle over onions

[greenie01]

I posted yesterday with a query over the state of my winter onions.

I found the pasket and the ones I planted were a veriety called snowball.
I've looked these up on the web and they seem to be a spring/summr veriety?
They seemed to lose their bulb whilst growing (but the tops seemed ok) and havent done anything so I have decided to pull them out and start again with new spring sets.

Do you think I'll be ok to plant the new ones where the old ones have been or should I not risk it plant on a new patch? I really wanted them to go in where the old ones went!!!

[rustylady]

Greenie, onions don't make big bulbs till the end of their growing season. If you plant "sets" (little bulbs) they make lots of leaves and roots and no discernable bulb. This is just how it is. Come summer or autumn the onion root or bulb swells up, the leaves die back and you harvest lovely onions.

[oldie]

According to my catalogue snowball can be planted in the autumn and assuming you planted sets they would mature in late June to mid-July depending when you planted them. I'm pretty sure my neighbour has them growing now from an early November sowing.