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Few pictures of where my onions are at, at the moment they are not under any lights as my grow light for them has still not arrived and the other light is being used for my leeks.

I suspect most growers have ordered there potatoes before Christmas, to be honest they normally take a back seat with me and I have only just got around to deciding what I wanted. It only crossed my mind the other day when I emptied a few bags out inside my tunnel that I had left over from my Christmas potatoes.

Still plenty of time to get orders in but some varietys can be harder to get hold of so best to get them now.

Slight change of plan this year being as I can never seem to keep Winston under a l Lb and they suffered from scab again.

I'm going with

NVS Amour
NVS Sherine
Kestrel
Harmony

I'm hoping Harmony will give me some decent whites this year, I have always struggled to grow whites yet coloured are always good.

You can get all these varieties and a lot more inlcluding everything you need and information on growing them at http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/

Please bare with me while I re-design the blog, although I have made website's in the past this is my first blog template so there are a few things I'm still fixing.

yes.. I finally got around to doing it as promised nearly a year ago?.

My Kelsea onions for the dressed class were sown on the 28th of December this year and my Giant Onion's P.G. Selection were sown about 16th December (rather late with this variety but had to wait for seed to be ready).

My Peter Glazebrook selection, which is a re-selection of the Billy Lamb onion has germinated and is ready to be pricked out into 60 cells. I will then move them out of the propagator into my grow room.

My grow room this year is slightly different as I am using T5 fluorescent grow lights, cheaper to run and so far are proving to be effective with my welsh seedlings growing under them. I'm running a 4 tube set up, 54 watt per tube but this will be replaced in a week with the 8 tube, 54 watt per bulb. Note these tubes are designed for growing, not your standard light tubes but they may work just aswell.

The surface area is reduced this year as the lights will only transmit light directly below. I will have to be more harsh about selecting what I want to grow on and chuck the rest.

Hope you all had a good Christmas, I will post some pictures when things are moving on a bit more, bit boring looking at seed and compost.

Just about cleaned, sterilized my greenhouse and have got past the 2 weeks of stinking of armillatox as it never comes off so that's one job out the way.

My onion beds have been prepared already so I'm chuffed with lots of manure and peat going in. The soil is still very light and crumbles very easily which most people would love, but the water just drains out instantly and onions I think prefer something a bit more solid so I will be adding a load of topsoil aswell as some grit.

All my seed orders have been made with cheques being written with my eyes closed as it does hurt to see the amount of money I spend.

Only one thing that is botherting me and I'm undecided on is shallots. They are a lot of work and expense, I can never store them and I hardly ever get anything great from them.. are they worth the effort?. I hate the thought of not growing them but I can't justify growing them either. I would be more interested but I can never ever store them, they just rot and I have tried every place I have free.