Sunday wasn't too bad after a very chilly start it was a fairly bright day but without much sunshine the temperature only managed the mid teens.
On the plot we decided it was time to lift our main crop onions and move them into our home greenhouse to dry off and hopefully store well over winter. It was hard to believe that we’d had 17mm of rainfall only a couple of days ago as although the top of the soil was wet it was still on the dry side a little lower down.
This was the first time we’d grown our onions through weed control fabric and it’s been successful at cutting down on weeding and still producing an excellent crop of onions. These were all set off early in cells back on 18 February in the greenhouse before been moved into the cold frame to harden off on 19 April and were finally planted in the plot on 5 May.
We always seem to have more problems growing red varieties but I’m really pleased with the size and conditions of our main crop onions. We’ll be lifting our other onions in the next week or so and comparing how they've done. We've now got to try to keep these onions in good condition through the winter.
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I love the top picture of your allotment - wonderful. I always like seeing allotments, wherever we are I always have a look at the sites we pass. Your onions look fantastic, they should last you a good long time. They're one of my favourite things to grow.
ReplyDeleteWe've some more onions to harvest but they haven't do so well. We do get through lots of onions.
DeleteOnions look a success and I like the look of the vibrant red tomatoes in your previous post.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kelli - pleased with our onion harvest - will they store okay?
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