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By Skipper

Avon, United Kingdom Gb

what variety 0f onion would you recommend for growing from seed for pickling. grow sturon from sets for maincrop would they do? thanks in advance




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Sturon may be a bit too big!

I tend to use Shallots for this purpose!

Next season I am going to have a go with some 'Potato Onions' I have been given.

I am led to believe that these are basically a cross between an onion and a shallot i.e. the are round like onions, but form clusters like shallots!

Then once you have a grown them you save some of the crop for the following year, so theoretically I won't have to buy setts anymore!

31 Oct, 2012

 

I have always used shallots, too!

3 Nov, 2012

 

Teegee, some "potato onions" are clumping members of Allium cepa, like shallots, and some are members of A. fistulosum, with a slightly more "garlicky" flavor.

11 Nov, 2012

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