Giant Onions 2015

Well guys here is my best one One in the hand for a size Gide
1 kg 365grams

 

Mine are still at it

 

Some of the leaves have dropped so i'm having them out, lost most of my first crop to mold on account of them staying wet

Bedford Champions on the grass and Kelsae in the tray

 

Ta

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Mine are not giant onions . Just jumping in on this thread with a perennial question - when to harvest ?
Now I normally pick mine around the last week in August. But the foliage is still 100% green , so I presume as with most things this year we are a couple of weeks late.
I got these two when to harvest photos . The first seems to be 100% green . The second ( from the RHS site no less !) seems to be very very late.
What signs should I look out for to know when to harvest.

TIA Confused of Wigan

 

They're not bad Harry

I normally lift them and let them ripen when the tops have dropped, but bringing them in this year at that stage as its been very wet

 

Potty , John
the photos are off google not my onions . Although they do look like first photo the foliage has not started to go brown yet.

 

Winner of GC word of the week is Harry with...

 

thank you Botty

 

Hi Harry, just jumping in myself on this thread, my onions have been dry for most of the summer, but never known them to stay green this long.
Mine are smaller than usual, and now we have had some rain, so not expecting them to dry off on their own just yet.
I've some years, gone round with a fork to just break the roots but still leave the plants in position for a couple of weeks, kind of telling them its time to go dormant.

Hoping for some dry weather in September.

 

I'm jumping in here as well . After reading the above posts about when to lift onions, we took ours out a couple of days ago.

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Now drying them in the garage.

I wasn't aiming to grow anything giant but there are always some that grow quite big. These are the two biggest, both ailsa craig




The biggest rossa di toscana


And the biggest shallot Long Red Florence