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harvesting onions

GrajeanGrajean Posts: 447
in Fruit & veg
I have a good crops of onions, all tops have flopped. I am going away in a few days for 3 weeks, is it ok to lift onions now and place in GH? I would hate to lose the crop.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 30
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  • GrajeanGrajean Posts: 447
    Thank you, just lifted them, very pleased with the crop.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Make the most of them and guard them like gold bullion ... commercial onion harvests in the UK are 50% down on the usual and apparently it's even worse in Holland  :'(

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2018
    According to my brother, who grows many tonnes of onions for the supermarkets etc ... as well as the short growing season, the incidence of flea beetle damage has been much higher than usual too  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BLTBLT Posts: 525
    I have had a decent crop too having sown some sets in autumn some in spring and even a few from seed, I have a good few small onions picking size that I am going to replant having dried them out first, as sets for autumn. I didthis last time and it has worked well.
  • tigerburnietigerburnie Posts: 131
    I've just lifted my seed grown onions, a bit smaller this year, possibly due to the weather. I watched an old vid on you tube of Jack Hargreaves in the Out of Town series, making old fashioned onion plaits, I intend to try it as they do look nice.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I do that with my dried garlic bulbs, tigerburnie and hang the plaits from the rafters of the shed. They do keep well so I am sure it would work with onions - very rustique! 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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