AKG030 - Overwintering onions

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Bucket of onions

This year wasn’t a great year for onions, but in previous years I’ve always had a nice crop from overwintering onions. Overwintering onions are planted in the autumn (as opposed to spring planting for maincrop onions) and spend the winter in the soil. I find that having something growing through the winter is a great psychological boost, and overwintering onions need very little attention.

See how my bumper crop of onions last year started and ended up on my blog

I always plant Radar organic onion sets from the Organic Gardening Catalog.

And I use the Square Foot Gardening spacing to ensure a large crop of reasonably sized onions. Check out the Square Foot Gardening book on Amazon: US and UK.

Posted 2 September 2007, 23:33.  

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