2013 Onion Growing Challenge

Well I opened the bedroom window and they were flapping about in the breeze

 

Mine are having a night out tonight,covered in a cloche mind....temperature not expected to drop below 10 degrees...there's no wonder things boult with these crazy temperatures

 

Mine are outside too during the night (uncovered), as the temps are pretty good

 

Oh, looks like frosts are forecast this weekendI was thinking of planting them out. Ah well, maybe next weekend?

 

Wonder if we can get away with wrapping them up Freddy

 

Wrapping? Sounds like a lot of messing about? I suppose if I had tall cloches (is there such a thing?) that would work. I'm probably missing something...

 

Not necessarily Freddy...anything light ...fleece or newspaper..just tokeep the worst off them

 

I suppose it would work as long as there was no chance of damaging the leaves, and that's the difficult part?

 

Mine are well protected:

 

Whooooops !! sorry, on the wrong thread.
Thought I was in the Tomato growing one, please excuse my intrusion,
carry on Onion growers....
you are all doing a grand job,
Jenny

 

We are very unlikely to get a severe "ground frost" at this time of year but I acknowledge we could.....

Onion seedlings can take a frost, you only need heat to germinate the seed!

Look at it this way, Garlic needs a cold blast in order to produce cloves? Garlic is an Allium as are onions, they are HARDY, STOP fluffing and plant them out!

Like what I have done!

 

Hi there Vince.

I look at it this way, I've tried to give them a good start, so for the sake of a few days I think it's worth just hanging back so as not to let them suffer a set-back.

 

The few of mine that have survived the nuclear winter are just putting on a new bit of growth, even the Chives have surpassed them.