Onions
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:55 pm
How have your Onions been this year - mine have been rather strange.
As I've said before, I grow them all from seed in clumps of about 5 a foot apart in rows also a foot apart. This year they grew masses of top and quite good sized Onions as well. I had two problems though. They never made any attempt to start dying down, just stayed lush green. Possibly the dry followed by rain. In the end I loosened them all and when that failed to slow them down I dug them up. The other problem was that two of the three white varieties had very thick necks, quite a few with flowers. Red ones were normal. The worst were Bedfordshire Champion followed by Ramata Di Milano. Rijnsburger and Red Baron were fine. Here are a couple of strings each of these at about 8Kg per string.
All the other whites are just in trays to keep an eye on / use first. It means we have a bit of an imbalance as there are two more strings of Red Baron not in the picture and there should really have been more white than red.
Sorting through the Ramata Di Milano I found this strange thing.
As I've said before, I grow them all from seed in clumps of about 5 a foot apart in rows also a foot apart. This year they grew masses of top and quite good sized Onions as well. I had two problems though. They never made any attempt to start dying down, just stayed lush green. Possibly the dry followed by rain. In the end I loosened them all and when that failed to slow them down I dug them up. The other problem was that two of the three white varieties had very thick necks, quite a few with flowers. Red ones were normal. The worst were Bedfordshire Champion followed by Ramata Di Milano. Rijnsburger and Red Baron were fine. Here are a couple of strings each of these at about 8Kg per string.
All the other whites are just in trays to keep an eye on / use first. It means we have a bit of an imbalance as there are two more strings of Red Baron not in the picture and there should really have been more white than red.
Sorting through the Ramata Di Milano I found this strange thing.