Too Many Onion Sets..................................

[68lbs]

Seems I was a little over enthusiastic in Wilkos... And I only got one pack of red and one pack of white.

However, I've now planted 160 onions and I reckon there's about another 100 left. By my calculations, if I can harvest and successfully store 104 onions, that should mean I never have to buy any.

Is there anything I can do with the excess? Keep them til next year... Erm, pickle them? (I suspect not!)

[Bill HH]

Give them to a deserving gardener.
Buy a catapult and fire them at politicians.
Let them rot a little and then post them to bankers with a messge saying here's your bloody bonus.
Stick one up each nostril and create a talking point. (dont try this at home children).
Plant them in local council flower beds, someone may benefit.
I'm done.

[rustylady]

104 onions? That's only 2 onions per week. I use far more than that and I live on my own.

Seriously though, your sets won't keep till next year. If you don't want to grow them yourself then give them away to someone.

[arpoet]

Me too, I ordered a kilo from the lottie society shop.... really wanted a pound. going to plant the surplus where ever I get a gap. You can never have too many onions.

[Keeks]

Get a container and plant the sets so that the bulbs are almost touching.....then as they grow thin them and use as spring onions


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[solway cropper]

I've got 148 sets planted out with another 50 or so yet to go in and about 60 plants grown from seed. Then there's all the spring onions, welsh onions, chives, garlic chives, wild garlic......I quite like alliums.
As arpoet says, you can never have too many

[kathyd]

I've actually just bought an extra bag so I can use them as companion plants this year.. I'm going to try sticking them in with brassicas and anything else that my book says likes to grow with onions to see if they really help to control some of the nasties in the veggie garden. Failing that, I'd put them in pots as other people have suggested .

[Two_Sheds]

Seems I was a little over enthusiastic

Me too! I forgot that I'd already bought my sets (for me, a friend and 2 schools) ~ so I bought them again

[68lbs]

That's only 2 onions per week. I use far more than that and I live on my own.

Well, there's only me and my daughter and only I eat them, so I was thinking 2 a week seemed reasonable. I suppose it depends how big they are... I can stick 2 in a curry sometimes, and if I get a craving for balsamic onions, I could get through 2 a day! Hmm...

You can never have too many onions.

Sod it, I'll stick em all in and see how we get on.

[Nickiontheallotment]

I traded mine with someone on the allotment for some of her compost ! Had far too many !


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[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

It seems the Wilko White onion sets were very generous this year, I've not even got half way through mine and am running out of space. The reds were decent amounts too - I've put about 2/3rds of them in.

Since we've been here we have not done anything in the front garden. I was considering some onion borders. I'll look like I put my bulbs in at the wrong time

[Guykp57]

Pickle them. Onion chutney, curries... So many uses my friend..share around the family or fellow growers at allotments. Keep smiling.


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[Normans Mum]

I don't feel so bad now.... have sown about 100 and have about the same still at various stages in the greenhouse.

[Dorothy rouse]

I have a whole raised bed of onions, red and white, 2. Kilos? Wud that be right, loads of them, plus I have the red overwintering ones, oh and some shallots, but only 5 have come up so far, ( not so good). But onions do store well if you get them strung up once dried.

[Alison]

I could always do with more but there is a limit to how much land I'm willing to turn over to onions etc. Think I've probably sown about 100 so far but more to go and a load of shallots in modules ready to plant out - not to mention the overwintering onions too