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I found spring onions really slow and difficult to grow for not much reward for years ... but then I discovered bunching onions!Bunching onion type Ishikura has been an eye-opener! They take as long to get going, but divide and make bunches like spring-onion chives and keep going as a patch right through winter with a bit of protection. Instead of pulling the onions whole with their roots - cut them off at ground-level and they'll make another one in place of the one you've picked! They're absolutely brilliant.
I would love to have spring onions but have never managed them... I would love those big bulbed onions with green stems that you get in bunches here. I don't even know what is the right variety... Any tips anyone? Bit late for this year I know - I have tried those Lisbon onions that you sow after the summer but could never get them to germinate properly.
If you grow any white onion from seed then you can simply pick them at that stage and they will taste the same as the ones you get on the markets. They take ages to get to that stage though - you can plant them closer together than if you were growing for full sized onions.