Giant onions 2016

Hey come on guys give me a chance. I've just lifted mine. Was all proud at the size of some of them. Weighed and measured the biggest, come in to post my magnificent results on GC then....... Read the weight and girth size of yours, talk about a deflated balloon.Well my biggest is 840 grms and girth just a smudge over 14 ins. Weight also including lots of greenery -AND it tipped it down last night so they are very wet! I would have left them a bit longer but going away for a week so thought best to lift them.
I'll try again next year, just hope the necks aren't too fat to store well and they taste good!

 

Nice one Silu

My biggest is only 412 grams.

Had them drying in the cold frame for a week.

 

You'm needing a gert dollop of manure innit

 

Arr

 

It's the only way to be sure

 

Short of being grown IN the manure heap, mine got plenty, maybe too much! Part of my "mistake" is that the seed didn't get sown until beginning of April which is a bit late I think. Will sow earlier next year. I used Unwins exhibition seed as that was what I had. As long as they store well and taste good I'm happy to let you lot take all the glory.
Haven't heard "gert" for a long time @Freddy . I went to school in Somerset and have fond memories of the West Country accent. The bus driver who took us to school always said to us each morning "how be on" well that's what it sounded like anyway!

 

How be on @silu tha noo

Having a girt slice of mine for breakfast, with a Linda McSausage Mozzarella burger and garlic to ward of the harvest mites



Check out this thread Silu http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/its-huge.103664/#post-974585

 

checked out the link. Hell wish I'd known that garlic wards of B harvest mites. Bought some small hay bales straight off a field a few years back and stored them in neddy's stable. Omg EVERYWHERE was covered in harvest mites about 3 days later. There must have literally millions of the damned things. Every time you went into the stable you ended up crawling with them...yuk yuk and yuk again! Went onto hayledge after that episode. Hope you enjoy your Birthday breakfast looks yummy.

 

I did ta, had the same for lunch

I've been bitten to badgery by the things