A Gardener's Weather Diary: Experimental red onions

Monday, 13 February 2023

Experimental red onions

We’ve always had trouble growing red onions. We had always grown our onions from sets and red sets had never performed as well as the brown ones. They’d be grown alongside one another and given the same treatment so we could never decide exactly what we were doing wrong. When we harvested our usual poor crop of red onions in 2020 we decided we’d had enough of trying to grow reds and we’d stick to the brown varieties in 2021.