onions

While you nice people are giving advice! i know its to early to get the sets in but I found a net full I lost last year and at the end of Jan they had started to shoot so bunged em in some moist compost in the hopefully frost free green house,on the off chance.
Now would it be worth popping them into the polytunnel start of march they are shooting nicely even if it is 2-3 months to early.

 

I think they will think its Year-2 and run to seed. But they might not ... trouble is, if they do, you've given up the space to them. Unless you want a crop of Onion Seed of course

 

If they go to seed I will just leave 1-2 in for seed the rest will be sacrificed,I would only ended up dumping them anyway,as they had slid behind a cupboard and I only found them when doing a tidy up out of about 50, 30 odd were shooting but still felt plump.

 

I planted hundreds of onion setts last year when Homebase where giving them away free after the end of the planting season. I deleiberately planted them extremeley close to one another to get all the 'spring onions' we could manage from them, and when the tops died/dried off we had more 'pickling onions than we could cope with.

As there was still half a carrier bag left of ones too fiddly to use in cooking/salads I've planted them in trays of moist soil in the poly tunnel. This was before the freezing weather started, but they had already started sprouting and will have the tops cut and used in salads before they bolt in what will be their second year.

 

Hello Stikflote , this site has lots of info on onion growing
Onion Growing, how to grow onions with pictures and advice.
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Even growing from setts should produce something larger than "tiny ones". Growing from the right seeds should produce larger bulbs and might work out cheaper.

If you don't have the facilities for growing from seeds, there's another way of getting bigger onions - buy some decent onion plants to grow on, which should guarantee you get some more substantial sized onions this year.

Here's a link to some that will grow big: Onion Plants

 

Amazing, he gets answers and gets all 'treetree' about it. There's no helping some folks....