onions with wind damage

Hi guys,

Ive sown some onion sets for the first time ever quite few weeks back now(stutgart giants).and wowowow they are growing,thing is its quite windy where I live being in Hull and not too far away from the river Humber so its windy a fair amount of the time,sadly I think just about every onion now has bent or creased stalks.Im totally gutted ,will this affect the growing of the onion,is there anything I need to do,can they be saved...........aside from the stalks being bent they look fairly healthy...........

 

I think your onions will be fine Smasher.
If it's permanently windy could you put a little wind break round them. Just about anything will do - some fleece, net, windbreak net kind of thing.

 

Thanks Alice ,Ive got a little green garden netting ,why didnt I think of that before lol............I wasnt sure if it would kill em or not.just another question .my uncle gave me some chicken manure pellets but I read on the net that they are not that good for onions...........have you any more info on that?

 

I use the chicken pellets for just about everything Smasher. Seems to work ok.

 

just a case of sprinkling them on then? hes give me some calcium nitrate aswell,says it makes the onions go hard I think he said

 

My "main" exhibition onions(Kelsae) grown in a raised bed have taken a real battering with the recent gales, my backup ones are doing nicely at ground level (and gonna stay there)

This time of year (Sorry JWK), onions are pretty hardy, I still expect my wind battered ones to out perform the others, I could be wrong though, quite often am :(

 

thanks for the feedback guys,they look healthy enough.il just keep an eye on them for now ,Ive taken your advice and put some netting up aswell