Try, try again.

This post is not going to be long, I’m sure you will recall how I have been wondering about when the onions would be ready to harvest. Well, after seven long months we decided it was time to pull them out and see what was happening. We concluded that if they were indeed growing but needed a bit longer we could always pop them back in and no one would be anymore the wiser! I can hear you laughing, but one of my colleagues will swear by this method!

Admittedly all looked good when we pulled them out as they smelt like really good, strong onions, but unfortunately the stick-like appearance never changed into a nice round onion so we have ended up with onion sticks. Interesting!

It was really disheartening but I am pretty sure it’s because we planted them far too late in the year, pretty much everything too late in year to be fair.

Following on from this we also decided to pull the spring onions, which turned out just as I had feared, that they had never recovered from the vandalising slugs that had attacked them earlier in the year.

So its time for a re-start, we have already made a start on the indoor sowing, including (due to a lack of window sill space) tomatoes growing in the study and onions in the bedroom (nice) and we are preparing to do some more this weekend.

Roll on 2010!