Help regarding storage of onions.

[Bill HH]

Overwintering onions should be ready by now usually, so should be good to pull....Spring sown ones are for later in season...

I have always grown Radar and these do very well for me and are okay storers..I do use them first tho...
This year I have also tried Senshyu and some red ones and they have done okay too.

My over winter seed sown ones (F1 Hi-ball) have been a bit smaller this year than usual....

Mine are all radar planted last winter.

[Penellype]

I reckon at least another month for onions planted this spring (sets). Last year I was starting to harvest onions planted in February by 12th August.

[Alison]

You can harvest them whenever you think that they are big enough for use but if you want to store them (and I still think this is far more relevant for spring sown ones) you need them to fully dry out before storage and it's best for the leaves to die down for that in my experience. I've usually pulled some for immediate use before them through as I've needed them for tea

[Martin H]

I find there's usually enough bolters to keep us going while the rest of the crop ripens, unfortunately.

[Alison]

I find there's usually enough bolters to keep us going while the rest of the crop ripens, unfortunately.

Often more than true but (will probably regret this........) been a pretty good year so far

[Hazel at the Hill]

Funnily enough, I've never had much success storing onions, yet the shallots that I grew for the first time last year have been great - kept well all year and I'm still using the last few.