How late to sow pickling onions

Hi all as above really just picked about 2lb of silver skin and was wondering if I would have time for another crop
Thanks all

 

It's Summer Soltice today, with decreasing daylight that affects onions, unless you've got some seed left and/or you're prepared to write them off and use a 'spring' onions, I would say no.

I grew Paris Silverskin for a few years, and found the effort of growing them (preparing ground, sowing, weeding, watering, losing the lot to white rot, etc.), skinning them, pickling them, etc. was just too much time, when there's jars reduced to 10p each in supermarkets after Xmas. After they're pickled I can't telll the difference between shop bought and home grown.

 

I could but I’d kind of defeats the object I could go to the super market and let toms onions potatoes etc but the whole point is wanting to do your own

 

What I mean is they're one of the worse crops, not just for no cost savings, or no improvement in taste (after saturating in vinegar), but there's absolutely loads of better stuff to grow where you can taste the difference instead of buying shop bought veg.

 

I understand now like I said above I’ve got some pickling for myself this year just to try with different spices etc and was just hoping to get some more ready in time for a cheap ass Christmas presents along with jams a chutneys nice a cheap lol

 

I think those are far more worthy of concentrating efforts on, especially using stuff picked from hedgerows for free.