Author Topic: The next spring onions. (Read 5124 times)

Rox · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2005, 14:49:21 »

they look great Tim!! ;) do you thin them out at all, or just plant them out as is? what spacing do you use?

tim · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2005, 16:03:30 »

As is - like a Tesco bunch?

Mrs Ava · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2005, 19:06:32 »

I planted 8 bunches like that on the plot today - wherever a gap, in they go! Reminds me to get another lot sown.

tim · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2005, 19:46:58 »

Funny - the first lot I put out 2/4 haven't budged a mm.

ellkebe · « **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2005, 22:31:57 »

Nor mine - went out a couple of weeks ago.

Ellkebe

ellkebe · « **Reply #6 on:** May 01, 2005, 19:35:55 »

I told a lie - checked this afternoon and they are just peeping out :)

BAGGY · « **Reply #7 on:** May 03, 2005, 19:54:39 »

Which variety are good to sow now ? I resent having to buy onions from the supermarket so presumably the sping onions wouldn't take too long anad i could use them soon ?

tim · « **Reply #8 on:** May 03, 2005, 20:27:45 »

Most varieties do OK - sown in succession until July. I prefer the straight ones to the Lisbon type. May take 3 months to harvest.

BAGGY · « **Reply #9 on:** May 03, 2005, 21:06:12 »

Thanks Tim - I will have a go at the weekend. A small pinch per module ?

Mrs Ava · « **Reply #10 on:** May 03, 2005, 22:50:41 »

Yup! And I intersowed when planting out, with another pinch directly in the ground. Well, a girl can never have too many onions! ;D

Svea · « **Reply #11 on:** May 04, 2005, 10:21:15 »

how long for spring onions to germinate? i have not had much success so far outdoors. might just want to start some indoors for planting out.

also, how long from sowing via germination to height in tim's piccie?

tim · « **Reply #12 on:** May 04, 2005, 11:28:29 »

Sown 26/3, germ 1/4, put out as the pic 29/4

Marianne · « **Reply #13 on:** May 04, 2005, 17:57:34 »

Planted my onions 2 weeks ago, nothing in site still .. :'(

tim · « **Reply #14 on:** May 04, 2005, 19:39:43 »

- or spring onions?

Svea · « **Reply #15 on:** May 04, 2005, 23:40:06 »

thanks tim. will sow some indoors then - one month is not too long to wait :)

kitty · « **Reply #16 on:** May 07, 2005, 19:49:11 »

i didnt know you could sow them as a bunch-which are the straight ones tim-all mine are lisbon...and a red sort rossa lunge de firenze(!)...
the sort of onions i am having trouble germinating are welsh onions-anyone know how long they take please?
kitty

tim · « **Reply #17 on:** May 08, 2005, 06:49:55 »

Could be wrong here, but I believe that Lisbon tend to 'bulb'?

The 'straight' ones are such as Guardsman, Feast, Ishikura.

If you want a clump of Welsh, I'll send you some!!

The red ones I find disappointing, because their beauty is only skin deep.

Carrie · « **Reply #18 on:** May 08, 2005, 09:18:57 »

Given that I have been tenderly nurturing a neat row of couch grass in the mistaken belief that it was my spring onions poking through - i decided to give Tim's method a whirl. In between hailstorms yesterday I sprinkled seed on a few pots covered with vermiculite then had to rush indoors with them due to a huge clap of thunder- tripped on the step - vermiculite and seed all over the place :-\. Perhaps I am not destined to harvest spring onions anywhere other than the fruit and veg section at Sainsburys ::)

RSJK · « **Reply #19 on:** May 08, 2005, 12:03:17 »

I had no luck at all last year with spring onions, they just would not germinate. so this year l have done the same as tim and started them of in modules, 4 of 5 seed in each, you can plant them out with hardly any gap between them, and they will grow on fine.
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