Knowing your onions

Not sure where the phrase knowing your onions comes from but we certainly are getting to know our onions this week having planted 45 000 of them. The onions have gone in perfectly and are enjoying this sunshine, I grow a variety called Hystar and put just one or two seeds in a module to make sure that we get nice large onions. We use all the onions in the soups and peeling small onions is a lot more work than peeling large ones. We hope to get around 20 tonnes of onons this year which will see us through to next March.