This year I am going to concentrate on growing some Kelsae Onions upto the 1.5kg weight and hopefully if they are as good as last year I may even attempt to enter some into a National Show.
After last years attempt to grow a giant 10 pounder (above) and finally managing just over 9 pounds I'm not going to try this again but I am considering growing an enormous Red Onion if I can manage to get my hands on some good plants.
Dec 24th 2009
Well,I decided to get the first job out of the way and dig my Onion beds over.
Firstly just to rough dig them and then to break the soil down a little to a finer tilth.
So that's both beds done.
Now just to give them a good old blitzing with some disinfectant to kill of any lingering botyrtis spores and let them settle for a few months.
I'm going to re-plant the 3, 8lb+ onions you can see shortly to see if I can get some seed or pips from 'em
Jan 26th.
I decided to get on with the task of flooding the onion beds today.Hopefully this will flush out as much salt and excess fertilizers as possible which can become a problem under cover as it never gets the rain to do this for you.
All I do is just keep on adding can after can of water onto the whole bed and hope that it flushes away any excess salts etc.
I actually used around 500 litres of water on just one 4 sq yd bed which is around the equivalent of 6" of rain,It takes forever to do relying on water butt water,but it does help the beds.
I decided to replant the 3 biggest onions,all around 8lb and see if I can get any seed from them.
The biggest problem is that as I was stupid enough to leave them in the tunnel all over December when the temperature got down to -15 they seem to have gone soft on me.
