Topic: Spring Onions

[PlymouthMaid]

Does anybody know why my spring onions just refuse to make little bulbs and still look like blades of grass?  The first lot were sown in April this year - did nothing until I got sick of the sight of them being pathetic at the end of august and dug them up. The second lot - red ones - went in about early July and are still looking sad.

Had a similar experience with the few carots that germinated. Most other stuff grew well apart from some bolting in the fennel. rocket and spinach department.

[manicscousers]

we grew our best spring onions and carrots in potting compost  :)

[telboy]

Agree manic,
In a 12'' pot for SO. Don't take long do they?
Tried carrots in a large square plastic container after early spuds. Brilliant!
 ;D

[Chrispy]

The spring onions I first sowed in the ground were pathetic, the ones that did manage to get their heads above the ground either got smothered by weeds, or got yanked out with the weeds, and out of a 8ft row I managed about 4 good onions.

What I do now, is I have a plug tray (from B&Q) with 60 cells, I sow this with multipurpose compost and a pinch of seeds to each cell.
When the roots start showing out the bottom of the cells, I plant these out with an inch or 2 between each bunch

This has worked very well, and because they are in little bunches, I can pull a bunch up without worrying about disturbing the rest.

[manicscousers]

we used both white lisbon and purplette and did the silverskin the same way, never had such a good crop  :)
started some more white lisbon in the poly last month, just with small trenches full of compost, they're about 6" tall now, going to see how they go

[calendula]

I do mine in window boxes or pots - maybe it was the quality of seed (or lack of it) that gave poor results