Next year I plan to grow onions from seeds for the first time in several years, apart from silver-skins for pickling. I have read of a method in which the seeds are sown in a tray, pricked out into 3 1/2 inch pots (5 to a pot). When large enough and hardened off, the contents of the pots are planted out as clumps, 15 inches apart and grown on like shallots. The writer claims to have had very good results with no onion weighing less than 8 oz (variety not specified). Has anyone else used this method and what results were obtained. I may set aside a small area of the onion bed to grow by this method as an experiment and sow the remaining seeds as normally recommended.
Any thoughts?