It’s been a good year for me anyway with my onions, normally
with wet weather I find onions not to do so well, but this year I have had a bumper
crop, only had 4 onions go to seed and they were all red Barons. Last year my
onions were well pathetic, in fact the worst of all the crops I grew. I was determined
to get a good crop this year.
I want to pull them now in case the rust that affected my
garlic appears again and ruins my crop of onions.
I know onions don’t like to much water so this year when
we had a spell of persistent wet weather I covered them over so they wouldn’t get
to wet, I think it has paid off some of the bulbs are huge. 
I haven’t the room to dig them all up just yet as I have
them drying in the shed hung up over some rope. Normally I would dry them outside
over a ladder but you need sun for that (it’s a big yellow thing that
sits in the sky and makes things warm and helps plants to grow…so I have heard!)
and this wet weather will not help them dry out! I am hoping the other half I have
left in will be ok for another 2-3 weeks them I can pick them and dry them too.
Once they are dry I am going to have a go at platting
them like you do with garic I have read that this helps them last longer and
store well like it, you never know unless you try right?
Onions are such a versatile crop and to me as a chef, I couldn’t
imagine a recipe without it in I am really looking forward to cooking with my
first proper batch of home grown onions.
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Hi! Really enjoying your blog and am impressed with your onions. Slow going for our onions this year, but we've had good success with Welsh onions (see our blog here http://tinyurl.com/7hylk5q ). Have you ever cooked with these?
ReplyDeleteMy allotment onions are a bit pathetic, my home-grown onions are much better and swelling well, despite the rubbish weather.
ReplyDeleteAllotmentplot4, the weahter this year has been a bit of a challange hasnt it! last year we had no water this year to much. you cant win!
DeleteOur onions and especially our shallots have done really well this year. Although most have bolted (and won't store too well) we've been pretty happy with the results.
ReplyDeleteOur onions aren't growing well at all - I think the low temperatures maybe sent the growing into limbo for more than just onions too.
ReplyDeleteHow's my onion crop? I'll tell you, in a single word of one syllable. Crap.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest one is about the size of a match head. The shallots are pathetic too. It's the same in the garden and at the field.
Mind you, I found a few decent sized bulbs at Waitrose!
Our onions are a soggy mess. Yours look pretty good though! Fancy swapping?
ReplyDeleteMartin :0)
Onions a sore point with me. Years ago we got a bumper crop and we thought it would be the same every year. That was a long time ago and we've had many disappointments since. )Keeping the rain off sounds crazy but for the last three years would have been a good strategy.) Leeks are the only reliable allium to grow in Scotland. Having said that I've dug up our first garlic crop and it's drying off in our shed now...
ReplyDeleteHaven't grown onions this year, but my leeks are just loving it! Horses for courses I guess. I wrote a post titled 'how to string onions' a few years ago, if you want you can search for it.
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