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Re: RE onions

In a message dated 8/16/98 4:00:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Rebecca.Neason@foxinternet.net writes:

<< I've never grown the super sweet onions (Walla Walla or Vidalia) because
 they must be planted in the autumn and our winter rains make my garden a
 bog.  >>

For the first time this past year,  I grew onions,  specifically Granex from
seed.  The catalog called this the Vidalia onion.  Here on the so calif coast,
these short day onions must be planted specifically the first two weeks in
november.  I was blind lucky and did this.  Otherwise the onions will not form
bulbs,  but rather grow into the biggest scallion type things you have ever
seen.  Anyway,  the bulbs I harvested a couple months ago were large (up to 5
inches in diameter) gorgeous and sweet.  Like the best onions I have ever
eaten,  good both raw and cooked.  And when cooked,  they retained their shape
and texture even in long slow cooked things.  I still have alot of them and
they seem to be keeping well.  You can bet I will be planting more this coming
november,  as well as some red short-day onions.  

I have also grown without regard to timing this past summer an onion called
candy with no long/short day requirements.  i have not harvested any yet,  but
they are forming nice but smaller bulbs -- thus far about 2 to 3 inches,  but
they are still growing,  tho I think they are almost at max size.

Janet
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