Topic: planting out onion sets

[quizzical1]

April's Gardeners World magazine says "dig a shallow trench and plant your sets 10 to 15cm apart, leaving just the tip showing, and firm the soil around them", and "leave enough room between the rows to get your hoe in".

[Barnowl]

I plant in rows with th onions further apart and an increasing width between the rows on the theory that one of the gaps should be right  ;D

[knbsallotment]

Lol barnowl. I love your theory, sounds a bit like mine!

[growmore]

I always use the span from the tip of my thumb to tip of my second finger. So mine go 9inches apart  .. I leave More room between rows so I can get between them   to hoe them ..
Bury them to the neck to stop em popping out...

Interesting theory Tee Gee .. A few year ago I took one of my plots on  in November where the onions had been left in site ..Found them as I was clearing weed off it...These were totally dried off when  I lifted them  and kept till the following May ..Wonder if it would work leaving them after a while and  nipping flowering heads off the weeds...  cheers Jim

[emmy1978]

he did take me a cutting off his fig tree

Kev, was it green wood cutting done now? I inherited some lovely fig trees off the mad old bloke who had plot before me and have friends on the scrounge for cuttings.  ::)

[cornykev]

He planted the cutting about 6/7 weeks ago its about two foot high.   ;D ;D ;D

[marestail murderer]

lol.............straight lines..............yeah right!
left it to the wife..................plant those i said..........bit of string between two sticks........she did..............
one stick was 6 inch away from the edge..........other was nine inch..............i now have diagonal rows!
"it wont matter"...........she said...............and i suppose shes right.........but it dont stop all and sundry asking me if i planted them after a session down the pub!

just had a thought.
if i could come up with a formula to show that onions grow better on the slant due to the movement of the sun and wind resistance.............would that wipe the smug smiles off their faces do ya think?

[carolinej]

The raised beds I built are so wonky, it's difficult to tell if my rows are straight or not.

Of course, that's the way I planned it ;)

cj :)

[manicscousers]

The raised beds I built are so wonky, it's difficult to tell if my rows are straight or not.

Of course, that's the way I planned it ;)

cj :)

not wonky, distinctive  ;D

[OllieC]

"I like the varying size rows approach - it provides me with the maximum variety of size, meaning that I always have the perfect onion for the meal at hand."

It might just work.