Topic: Spring Onions

[tim]

Clever!

So - as one comes to realise, you're growing them as Spring Onions, rather than Shallots.

Fine, if they're from seed, but extravagant if from sets.

Keep at it - I'm only rattling on for fun!

[RSJK]

White lisbon will only bulb if allowed to do so

[Sparkly]

I grew spring onions (white lisbon) by sowing them in a pot and tranplanting them into a raised bed with good results. I also left the pot (about a 5") with a number of seedlings and they grew in there too! About 12 spring onions from a 5" pot. From this experience I think I will be trying growing spring onions in a 10" pot next year and not bother with them on the plot.

[kt.]

About 12 spring onions from a 5" pot. From this experience I think I will be trying growing spring onions in a 10" pot next year and not bother with them on the plot.

I had this with radish after no joy on the plot.  Will try it next year with spring onions too then.   ;)

[davyw1]

Clever!

So - as one comes to realise, you're growing them as Spring Onions, rather than Shallots.

Fine, if they're from seed, but extravagant if from sets.

Keep at it - I'm only rattling on for fun!

HEHEHE Love it Tim, i can,t remember the last time i bought a Shallot Bulb. 

[davyw1]

White lisbon will only bulb if allowed to do so

How do you stop nature.

[RSJK]

white lisbon sown in September should have been ready in Late may, but because of mild winter were ready for pulling in March

[cornykev]

I had no joy with springys last year, and this year I had to re sow a whole line and even then  only the middle third came through (white lisbon ) and are looking very healthy, I re sowed the other two thirds with laser and they came through ok.  ;D ;D ;D

[kt.]

I do not know why but for some reason I always thought spring onions were fast croppers like radish until this thread,  not 10 weeks plus.  Lesson learnt..... RTFQ (or rather whats on the packaging instructions)

[davyw1]

I don,t tend to bother with spring onion, i prefer the Japanese bunching onion. Sometime i wonder why i bother with them.
I thinned out the Welsh Onions this morning
This is what i transplanted

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This is what i am giving away after swapping a bunch half the size for six Duck eg[attachment=3]gs

And this is what i have left. Why am i growing other onions. I am not well i tell you

[davyw1]

Oh i forgot these two rows

[betula]

You know your onions Davyw1 :)

A great gardener :)

[tim]

How many in the Family, Davy?

Do you chuck them in & thin, or sow thinly?

And do you do Roast Spring Onions?

I must be the only one who/that finds their flavour quite different to/from any other onion.

[jo9919]

I must be the only one who/that finds their flavour quite different to/from any other onion.

You're not the only one Tim.

I find the taste of spring onions very different from other onions. I love them in a salad, but my favourite is on my cheese sarnies.

Jo.

[tim]

Now - three guesses - they'll all be wrong!!