overwintered onions?

[salome2001]

when would I expect to be harvesting these? ( am trying to work out if I can slip another crop into the bed after they go)

[daylily]

when would I expect to be harvesting these? ( am trying to work out if I can slip another crop into the bed after they go)

About May, so yes, of course.

[Two_Sheds]

June ~ not much earlier than your maincrop. Although you can, of course, pick them before they're mature and eat them at any stage of growth.

You can also intercrop them with something else ~ pop some salad in next to them or something.

[Poolcue]

June/July and put some carrots in between them.

[Pies]

got mine up late may and put some squash down

[Alison]

As with pies, I pull mine in late May (or early June) and then put a squash in there as am always looking for more space for them.

[morverngirl]

I got white rot so had to use space for different type crop

[zazen999]

What I do is to have a load of cabbage seedlings ready - and as an onion gets pulled for using I pop a cabbage seedling in the gap left. Most of my overwintering onions get used straight rather than stored so over the weeks, the cabbages fill up the gaps and carry on growing once all the onions are out.

[Snadger]

What I do is to have a load of cabbage seedlings ready - and as an onion gets pulled for using I pop a cabbage seedling in the gap left. Most of my overwintering onions get used straight rather than stored so over the weeks, the cabbages fill up the gaps and carry on growing once all the onions are out.

You're learning!.....................

[cazp]

Nice idea about the cabbages and will do something similar in my beds i think.

My red onions have nearly all sprouted, but are still tiny. One of them I pulled up because the bulb felt "empty" and it looked a bit mouldy around the roots - what are the chances of this being white rot?

[Two_Sheds]

what are the chances of this being white rot?

If it's got white fluffy mould on the root end ~ that's white rot

[Snadger]

The bulbs will feel 'empty' once the plant has its own roots and can grab its own nutrients. The bulb was only a storage utility until its established, a bit like the cotyleydons on cucurbits.
If they are losing the husk and its in contact with the soil you will get rots in the husk, but not necessarily white rot.
If on lifting, the roots have been affected, then you could suspect white rot.

My experience of white rot is that it doesn't rear its ugly head until the plant is well established (then its roots rot off) and sometimes even not until bulbs are in storage.

[Aberdeenplotter]

white rot is quite distinctive and normally displays cotton wool like growth at the base of the plant. The other normal obvious thing is that if you try to lift the plant, instead of there being any resistance, it will come off the ground without any resistance whatever.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Whoops, just noticed TS's post above. Apologies missus,

[Two_Sheds]

No worries mister