Harvesting Japanese onions
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The Japanese onions i planted ages ago are all starting to come good. The tops have flopped over and yellowed, and most of the bulbs have swelled. I was in doubt a while ago as to whether or not to bother with these, but i suppose that nothing needs the ground until now, so it seems worthwhile.
The ones above are the ones which began to have seed heads growing on them (bizarrely a few are no bigger than the sets we planted!), we’ve harvested about another 10 or so since them which were a lot bigger, and had the beginnings of a papery coating. The only problem with the Senshyu variety is they don’t keep long.
As the maincrop onions are getting near edible too, it seems we will have onions right up until Christmas, which is nice 
