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Hi

Can I plant my onion sets now. If not, do I just keep them in a dry/dark place.

Tigerella

What variety are they?

If they're the over wintering Japanese ones yes. Radar and Swift are the varieties I've planted.

Phil

Hi

Dont know the variety, just a bag of pickleing onions bought from Morrisons for one pound!

Nigel

If they were sold as picling onions they won't have been heat treated and will probably go straight to seed. Planting the proper Japanese onions are a better bet, but you'll need to get a move on!

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Pickling onions are usually shallots. Plant around February, meantime keep them cool if you want to use them as sets. Otherwise just use them as pickling or cooking onions. Shallots grow well from saved sets if they are kept in the right conditions.

Hi

I dont think they are challots, because they are all round, meaning they are not from a clump of challots.
Might just use some for cooking, might plants some too, just to see how they grow-or not.

T

Good for you...one of lifes experimentalists! Me too, sometimes!

PS Most shallots are round btw! They grow in a clump but still look like small onions!

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Try your local garden centre...i bought some Senshyu, 100 sets for about £3.50. They are going in very soon where the carrots just came out!

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Hi Tigerella, if I've understood you properly what you've bought aren't really onion 'sets' but pickling onions meant to be eaten, ie. you bought them from the veg. department not the garden dept.? If that's the case then they are baby onions & not really suitable for planting & growing on now as they won't be autumn planting onions like Radar etc., they would probably not grow very well over winter & either just go to seed or freeze/rot depending on the weather but as you say you could always try a few & let us know if they do grow & pickle the rest.

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