Question about Onions

The mildness is exactly why I grow them, great in salads and cheese and onion butties.
if you cut into one use what you need wrap the remaining piece in cling film put in fridge will keep for well over a week. I grow a dozen in a raised bed which get big six or seven pounds.
the rest (40) I grow in 12" pots which as above average about four pounds. not a bad return well over two hundred pounds of onions for a bit of FBB and care, everyone I give some to say they are a really nice onion. The drying after lifting is the key to keeping them, I lift while there is still some warmth in the sun usually October and hang in the greenhouse until the skins are really dry and papery The pips I got have been growing for a while now and are around 5" high.
Regards Sandy

 

We always grow onion sets which I plant into trays of compost to get them started (rooting and green shoots growing)so that when we put them out into the allotment ground the birds don’t pull them back out of the ground like they tend to do if we just put the sets straight into the soil plus often as the sets are making roots they tend to push themselves out of the soil.

The sets we buy usually have been heat treated which is supposed to kill off the flower embryo so that they don’t bolt but I find that often in very dry weather we do get some bolters so I try to make sure they get plenty of water in the hot weather which I find as well helps the bulb to swell to a good size

 

Bit like growing a potato from a potato,.... you get more than you plant.
And you have grown it yourself.

 

Plant little onion, harvest big onion

Love a Kelsae, favourite tasting onion

You plant a seed this big o....

And get an onion that's big enough to use as a weapon in a pub fight

 

FC's found the bottle of Devils Advocaar i hid in Marley's rucksack

 

I never bothered with growing onions until the big kelsae challenge. Grown them two years now from seed. Never got an onion bigger than my left cheek when I was 12...... and I was darned scrawny

Love the taste. Have now started a schedule of using them... YUM

 

But look at all the exercise you miss by simply purchasing them

@Fat Controller you do need to remember your hour glass figure

 

Hmmm. Assuming that's in a ceiling fixture, not a table lamp...

This cold weather is so accomodating to post harvest time. Bigger eats, bigger clothing to cover the evidence