Moving onions?

[Scoot]

I got 4 BIG onions off a friend of mine in the spring. As i had no room in my garden at the time i just put all 4 into a big bucket. Now, they are very big and they won;t get any bigger in this bucket but as all my parsnips have bit the dust in the garden, i have room and was wondering if i moved them from the bucket to the garden will it do they any harm?

Any onion experts out there?

[veggiechicken]

Most onions are ready for harvesting now - I'll be pulling mine up soon.
You may be too late to gain anything by moving them.

[burnie]

Many competition growers grow in containers, what makes you think they won't grow any more?

[Potstubsdustbins]

I grow red onions and they seem to have a lot of thin roots, I don't know if white onions are the same but I wouldn't move them at this stage of the season.

[Penellype]

One of the ways to bring on ripening of onions is to ease them out of the ground, which breaks the roots and causes them to die down. I suspect this will happen if you move them, but as others have said, it is time for them to start ripening now anyway.

[Scoot]

Many competition growers grow in containers, what makes you think they won't grow any more?

Because they're almost touching each other in the bucket lol.

I think I'll just leave them there then and harvest them in the next couple of weeks.