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Repost : Overwinter Onions
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 |
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Repost : Overwinter Onions
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. -- David in Normandy. To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the subject line, or it will be automatically deleted by a filter and not reach my inbox. |
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