The next spring onions.

[tim]

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[Rox]

they look great Tim!!  do you thin them out at all, or just plant them out as is? what spacing do you use?

[tim]

As is - like a Tesco bunch?

[Mrs Ava]

I planted 8 bunches like that on the plot today - wherever a gap, in they go!  Reminds me to get another lot sown.

[tim]

Funny - the first lot I put out 2/4 haven't budged a mm.

[ellkebe]

Nor mine - went out a couple of weeks ago.

Ellkebe

[ellkebe]

I told a lie - checked this afternoon and they are just peeping out 

[BAGGY]

Which variety are good to sow now ?  I resent having to buy onions from the supermarket so presumably the sping onions wouldn't take too long anad i could use them soon ?

[tim]

Most varieties do OK - sown in succession until July. I prefer the straight ones to the Lisbon type.  May take 3 months to harvest.

[BAGGY]

Thanks Tim - I will have a go at the weekend.  A small pinch per module ?

[Mrs Ava]

Yup!  And I intersowed when planting out, with another pinch directly in the ground.  Well, a girl can never have too many onions! 

[Svea]

how long for spring onions to germinate? i have not had much success so far outdoors. might just want to start some indoors for planting out.

also, how long from sowing via germination to height in tim's piccie?

[tim]

Sown 26/3, germ 1/4, put out as the pic 29/4

[Marianne]

Planted my onions 2 weeks ago, nothing in site still ..

[tim]

- or spring onions?

[Svea]

thanks tim. will sow some indoors then - one month is not too long to wait

[kitty]

i didnt know you could sow them as a bunch-which are the straight ones tim-all mine are lisbon...and a red sort rossa lunge de firenze(!)...
the sort of onions i am having trouble germinating are welsh onions-anyone know how long they take please?
kitty

[tim]

Could be wrong here, but I believe that Lisbon tend to 'bulb'?

The 'straight' ones are such as Guardsman, Feast, Ishikura.

If you want a clump of Welsh, I'll send you some!!

The red ones I find disappointing, because their beauty is only skin deep.

[Carrie]

Given that I have been tenderly nurturing a neat row of couch grass in the mistaken belief that it was my spring onions poking through - i decided to give Tim's method a whirl. In between hailstorms yesterday I sprinkled seed on a few  pots  covered with vermiculite then had to rush indoors with them due to a huge clap of thunder- tripped on the step - vermiculite and seed all over the place . Perhaps I am not destined to harvest spring onions anywhere other than the fruit and veg section at Sainsburys

[RSJK]

I had no luck at all last year with spring onions, they just would not germinate. so this year l have done the same as tim and started them of in modules, 4 of 5 seed in each, you can plant them out with hardly any gap between them, and they will grow on fine.