onions sets for pickling

hello. i am looking to plant pickling onions next year and would like some information please. what are the best sets/seeds to buy. has any body any good ideas on these.thanks for your time peter.

 

Hello @peter121 sorry but I can't help you mate never done pickling but hopefully members will help and i'm calling on your help@Marley Farley

 

Haven't actually gotten around to pickling any yet but my plan was to pickle shallots instead of onions. You get several shallots for every bulb you plant and they're the right size. Whereas with onions you plant a small onion and grow a single larger onion. You can plant shallots in autumn so something to do at a time of year when there isn't much other planting going on. They mature early summer so you can probably get a second crop of something growing after you pull them.

It's my first year of growing shallots and they were very successful. I just haven't pickled any yet because I've been eating them

 

@peter121 I hope this info helps until others answer besides Mike

GROWING ONIONS FROM FOR PICKLING

Pickled Onions are a kitchen favourite - but there is no need to buy pickling onions it is easy to grow your own when you know how!
The best varieties of onion specially suitable for pickling include Barletta Silverskin, Small Paris Silverskin, Giant Zittau, Improved Queen, White Queen, Purplette and Covent Garden Pearl.
Seeds for these varieties of pickling onions can be bought from seed suppliers or garden centres.

SOWING SEED FOR YOUR OWN HOMEMADE PICKLED ONIONS

The onion seed should be sown very thinly in drills 7 inches apart in early April.
The ground need not be specially manured for them.
The onion seedlings are not thinned out, as the onion bulbs are intended to only grow to a useful pickling size.
Keep a watch for onion flies

WHEN TO SOW PICKLED ONION SEED

A March to April sowing will produce an early summer crop of onion bulbs from 1 - 2 inches in diameter.
Pickling onions can also be sown in July, for a later crop in the same year.
Most types of onion that are suitable for the pickle jar are also good to use as salad onions in salads.
If there is no room for a pickling onion sowing, small onion bulbs suitable for the purpose can be selected from the main onion crop when it is lifted.

 

thank you all for information on pickling onions.will let you all know what ones i plant. also let you know how it goes. cheers again peter.

 

Peter best of luck mate in doing them