Planting onions

It's that time of year when we plant our main crop onions. I'm sticking with my old faithfuls - Sturon. We always buy the bolt-resistant (heat-treated) sets which are slightly more expensive but always give us great results. We are also really keen on shallots but we did'nt have a lot of success growing them in our raised bed last year. This year we will try planting them straight in the ground as we do for the other onions. The two varieties we are growing are shown in the below pic:

After forking over the ground , the shallots and Sturon sets were planted in rows alongside the cabbages:

In total there were 85 Sturon sets in the bag. These have been covered to stop the birds pulling them out:

The netting will be removed once they have become established.
I'm still not overly impressed with our autumn-sown onions:

The Japanese onions in the foreground are doing okay but I think we have lost many of our Snowball and Red Baron onions. I reckon we will be harvesting only 20-30 of the 50 onions sown.
In other onion-related news, the spring onions have been pricked out of their pots into a large container in the greenhouse:

These are looking promising (despite the unflattering photo!), there are 20 in total. I have also sown a couple more pots indoors in the hope of a continuous supply.