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tim
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Just like the old days!
The next spring onions.
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April 29, 2005, 08:26:15 »
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Rox
Half Acre
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Re: The next spring onions.
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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?
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tim
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April 29, 2005, 16:03:30 »
As is - like a Tesco bunch?
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Mrs Ava
Hectare
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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.
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tim
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April 29, 2005, 19:46:58 »
Funny - the first lot I put out 2/4 haven't budged a mm.
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ellkebe
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April 30, 2005, 22:31:57 »
Nor mine - went out a couple of weeks ago.
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ellkebe
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May 01, 2005, 19:35:55 »
I told a lie - checked this afternoon and they are just peeping out :)
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BAGGY
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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 ?
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tim
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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.
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BAGGY
Hectare
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May 03, 2005, 21:06:12 »
Thanks Tim - I will have a go at the weekend. A small pinch per module ?
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Mrs Ava
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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
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Svea
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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?
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tim
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May 04, 2005, 11:28:29 »
Sown 26/3, germ 1/4, put out as the pic 29/4
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Marianne
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May 04, 2005, 17:57:34 »
Planted my onions 2 weeks ago, nothing in site still .. :'(
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tim
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Re: The next spring onions.
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May 04, 2005, 19:39:43 »
- or
spring onions
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Svea
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Re: The next spring onions.
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May 04, 2005, 23:40:06 »
thanks tim. will sow some indoors then - one month is not too long to wait :)
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kitty
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its what i do.
Re: The next spring onions.
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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?
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tim
Hectare
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Re: The next spring onions.
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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.
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Carrie
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Re: The next spring onions.
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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 ::)
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RSJK
Hectare
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Re: The next spring onions.
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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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