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  • From: "Dalew Farms" <dalew AT phonenet.ca>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] multiplier onions - Onions grown from bulbs
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:07:50 -0500

I hope you don't mind if I slightly hijack this thread, but it reminded me of something we noticed with our onions last year, and wondered if others noticed this last year or in past years as well.
Last year we switched to growing our onions predominately from bulbs. I've always used a fair amount of bulbs for my yellow cooking onions. (Sturon from Veseys seems to work good for us) Last year I was able to get some red and white bulbs as well. We're in a short season area, and bulbs are usually more reliable, depending on the weather to have good sized onions in the fall.
Of course, since we switched to mostly bulbs, we ended up with a hot dry summer for a change. What surprised me though, was that the red and white onoins did terrible in the heat! More than 75% of them went to seed and had unsaleable bulbs. We had a very limited # of red and white plants grown from seed, and those plants did not bolt to seed and done reasonably well. Of our yellow Sturon bulbs, we did see more than usual #'s of those going to seed as well, but it was under 10%, and we still had a decent crop of those. So I did see this much more so in the red and white bulbs, than in the yellow onoins.
Has anyone else seen this sort of discrepancy between using bulbs or plants, depending on the weather for a particular season? (Right or wrong, I switched back to plants for everything this year except our usual amount of the Sturon bulbs, and intend to put most of the onion plants on plastic mulch.)

Dave



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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ehrlich" <johnkaty AT shaw.ca>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:56 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] multiplier onions


I have been growing multiplier onions for a few years now and find they are a great crop for the CSA. I saved seed from last years crop, though the sets are not as large as the one's I have to buy each year.

Does anyone else have experience with this crop?

Thanks, John

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