Congratulations. Sounds like you did great. I planted over 700 and picked over half for green onions. I plant thick and then thin as the season progresses. I planted both you did along with several others. The only one done is Contessa. Have pulled most of them. They didn't make very big bulbs. Probably the last year for them. I have grown Candy in previous years and really like it. Bet you will also. Won't know bulb size on any of the rest till I pull them. I figure within the next two weeks I'll pull all my onions and garlic. Jay

Very cool! I think I'm going to plant more regular onions next year -- after I get the wellhouse garden rearranged so they'll fit. This year, I just have walking onions and have been freezing gallons of the greens and dehydrating gallons of the rest. The house stinks!

Diane

Someone posted something they did with onions that didn't get to size, to save them for next year. I thougbt it was George but he says it was not him. It had to do with burying the bulbs in a container of potting soil, I think.

I can't find the thread it was in. Would whoever posted that information, or whoever knows, answer a couple questions? Once you bury the bulbs in a container of dirt, do you keep the container in a sheltered location outside or do you bring them inside and keep them from freezing until it's safe to set them out next spring? Do you keep them dry or do you water them? If you water them, about how often?

I bought Southern Belle red when I couldn't buy Candy onions at Atwood's this year, and it's my fault they didn't do well. I had a new garden spot that's ground level and I thought it would be a good place for them since it would be wetter. But I didn't get the soil improved enough, apparently, and when the rains stopped the ground turned to concrete. So the poor little things struggled until I dug them all up yesterday. Most of the tops had died all the way back. If I can save them till next year, I'll do that, if not I guess I could pickle them or something.

This just wasn't my year for onions, I guess. I planted your Candy onion sets, Dawn, and some of them went to seed, but I thought, 'what the heck, I'll save the seed!' I know they're a hybrid, but maybe I'll get something nice from the seed. There were still several that went ahead and bulbed out and they are drying now. They didn't get as big as the ones I had last year, but that's my fault cause I had them in the raised bed with the cabbages and those cabbages probably shaded them too much. For sure they had them bent over so that it was hard for me to tell whether the necks were soft or not. Live and learn, eh?