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Onion sets

Mark-EMark-E Posts: 184
in Fruit & veg
Hello,

Can you store onion sets over the year or are you better just buying new each year?

If you can store them, is it best to store in the garage?

Thanks

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Onion sets for planting?  No.  They're like other bulbs such as daffs and tulips and so on.  They will try and grow and then wilt and wither and die if they're not in the ground or pots or troughs of compost.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Mark-EMark-E Posts: 184
    Thanks Obelixx

    Yeah, onion sets for planting. I always get more than I can plant out.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Grow them on in small pots till you have space or offer them to friends or put them in a window box near the kitchen and use the green shoots as spring onions.  You won't get adult onions that way but all will not be lost.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I give my spare ones away.  Alternatively, plant the spare sets close together (eg in a pot) and harvest the leaves which can be used like spring onions.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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