In previous years, I have planted 'Radar' onion sets in October as they
are a winter hardy variety. They seem to take well and are popping
above the ground strongly by early November.

However I find that, come the spring, a lot of them are lost. And those
that remain and thrive well are not much earlier for cropping than my
main crop onions sets that I plant out at the usual time.

I feel that they offer little advantage and that I might be better off
saving the space that they would occupy to plant out more of the regular
sets around about April time.

What are other peoples' experience here with over winter onions?

Are they worth doing?

Ed

On 11/09/2010 20:05, Ed wrote:
In previous years, I have planted 'Radar' onion sets in October as they
are a winter hardy variety. They seem to take well and are popping above
the ground strongly by early November.

However I find that, come the spring, a lot of them are lost. And those
that remain and thrive well are not much earlier for cropping than my
main crop onions sets that I plant out at the usual time.

I feel that they offer little advantage and that I might be better off
saving the space that they would occupy to plant out more of the regular
sets around about April time.

What are other peoples' experience here with over winter onions?

Are they worth doing?

Ed

I'd agree with the previous replies that were made to this same thread.
Waste of time growing them. I tried growing the Japanese overwintering
onions a couple of times and they were ready a couple of weeks before my
Spring planted crop, but I lost a number over Winter. Besides, there is
more chance of weeds popping up between October and Spring, so it just
means more work. Lot easier to weed a patch than between plants.

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