Onions 2018

[Potstubsdustbins]

Time to start getting them out the ground for drying.

Last years harvest provided onions for the whole year a first for me and this years harvest is looking good too.

Red Fen grown in revitalised compost using grow-more and pelleted onion fertiliser.

[bramble]

Looking Good. How many containers have you got?
When did you plant them.
We're they from seeds or sets.

[Greenleaves]

Mine weren't great but enough for two

[Potstubsdustbins]

Heat treated Red Fen sets

3 cut down 40 gallon plastic water tanks 3 round pots as seen in pic.

I will look up planting date and let you know

[bramble]

Thanks Postdustbins.
Going to try this.

[Earthgirl Jen]

I had to harvest all of mine the last week of July Potstubsdustbins. As some were showing signs of root rot (soil all dealt with, first sprinkled garlic powder and then watered with garlic water,)

In the left hand rack are red baron and bedfordshire champion both grown from seed. On the right are red karmen and stuttgarter grown from sets.

I have to say my favourite so far has been the red karmen, delicious, sweet onions, perfect for sandwiches and salads, a nice onion taste not to strong and the raw onion didn't repeat on me.. lol... I watered the sets well this year and kept on top of it. Only 4 red karmen bolted and 2 stuttgarter. ( not showing is the first onion string I did from the mole ridden bed)


I also grew Globo from seed and were delighted with the results despite the fact they did not get planted in the ground until early May. Both crates were full but as these don't keep as well, family, friends and me have been eating them! I kept them like this last year in my utility room at the back of the garage which faces north. I ate the last one in Jan this year!

[chillithyme]

great onions

[Jay-ell]

I had to harvest all of mine the last week of July Potstubsdustbins. As some were showing signs of root rot (soil all dealt with, first sprinkled garlic powder and then watered with garlic water,)

In the left hand rack are red baron and bedfordshire champion both grown from seed. On the right are red karmen and stuttgarter grown from sets.

I have to say my favourite so far has been the red karmen, delicious, sweet onions, perfect for sandwiches and salads, a nice onion taste not to strong and the raw onion didn't repeat on me.. lol... I watered the sets well this year and kept on top of it. Only 4 red karmen bolted and 2 stuttgarter. ( not showing is the first onion string I did from the mole ridden bed)
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I also grew Globo from seed and were delighted with the results despite the fact they did not get planted in the ground until early May. Both crates were full but as these don't keep as well, family, friends and me have been eating them! I kept them like this last year in my utility room at the back of the garage which faces north. I ate the last one in Jan this year!
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Make sure that you do the garlic treatment next year (and as many years as you can before next lot of onions) once the soil has warmed up as it needs to wake the spores out of dormancy so that they can starve, I don't know how effective it will be if it's done straight away after harvesting. Aparrantly you can use composted onions onion and the onion skins to trigger it as well as it needs living alliums to infect but the allicin in the skins is still supposed to wake it. Me - I'm sticking with garlic powder.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Bramble planted mid/late March.

Marshalls who I get my sets from hold them back until it's right for planting.

[ESBkevin]

Nice onions everyone.

This year the dry weather meant they didn't get as big and quite a few bolted early. Those were chopped and frozen rather than waste them. The others were dried and are now stored which hopefully will see us through the winter, but definately not up to previous years. Some of the very small bulbs I will use as sets for next year.

[Penellype]

These are mine from the allotment, lifted yesterday:



Size is a bit variable but I like that as I often only want a little one. Variety Sturon, grown from sets.

[freefolk]

I grew "Electric" and "Radar" over winter - absolutely superb, all came out about 6-8cm diameter. Will do them again this winter.

[SalfordWhite]

Make sure that you do the garlic treatment next year (and as many years as you can before next lot of onions) once the soil has warmed up as it needs to wake the spores out of dormancy so that they can starve, I don't know how effective it will be if it's done straight away after harvesting. Aparrantly you can use composted onions onion and the onion skins to trigger it as well as it needs living alliums to infect but the allicin in the skins is still supposed to wake it. Me - I'm sticking with garlic powder.

How are you treating the ground and when?
Is it effective as I am sick of losing garlic?

[Mark_Riga]

I have an area affected by moldy nose and I stick to autumn planted onion sets there as these are ready sooner and usually get a decent crop. I also plant the sets at least 6" apart and keep eye on them for signs of the disease. If any onion shows signs, it is pulled and a spade square of soil removed. If you ever have a fire (I don't), you could put the soil on that to sterilize it. I never had much success with garlic there. If I was to try again there with garlic, I would look for an autumn planted variety that matures very early if there is one.

[1Bee]

I'm excited about my onions this year. I grew sturon from sets and red baron from heat-treated sets and haven't lost a single one to bolting. When I saw onions on other plots starting to bolt, I gave them a good soak weekly until the longest day. About half have fallen over now, so as soon as I dig out the drying rack (and old nursery fireguard which has rather unfortunately been claimed by some huge tagetes and nasturtiums) I'll lift them. Some of the Sturon are bigger than any onion I've ever grown. Fingers crossed I don't discover something nasty when they come up...