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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: tim on April 29, 2005, 08:26:15

Title: The next spring onions.
Post by: tim on April 29, 2005, 08:26:15

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Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: Rox 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?

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: tim on April 29, 2005, 16:03:30

As is - like a Tesco bunch?

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: Mrs Ava 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.

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: tim on April 29, 2005, 19:46:58

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

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: ellkebe on April 30, 2005, 22:31:57

Nor mine - went out a couple of weeks ago.

Ellkebe

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: ellkebe on May 01, 2005, 19:35:55

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

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: BAGGY 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 ?

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: tim 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.

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: BAGGY on May 03, 2005, 21:06:12

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

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: Mrs Ava 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

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: Svea 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?

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: tim on May 04, 2005, 11:28:29

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

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: Marianne on May 04, 2005, 17:57:34

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

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: tim on May 04, 2005, 19:39:43

- or spring onions?

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: Svea on May 04, 2005, 23:40:06

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

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: kitty 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

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: tim 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.

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: Carrie 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 ::)

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: RSJK 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.
                                     ;)

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: Alimo on May 08, 2005, 13:18:18

Brills idea to plant them out as a clump.  There I was on Thursday, splitting them up and planting them in rows ::)

Alimo

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: kitty on May 08, 2005, 20:12:49

aww..bless yer heart!
i didnt realise people had probs getting these lil divils to germinate-dtop throwing things!
it may be thats the only thing that germinates for me!!!!! ;D
tim!i'll pm you-we may be able to strike a deal!
kitty ;)

Title: Re: The next spring onions.
Post by: wardy on May 08, 2005, 22:04:39

Carrie   I did laugh  ;D     I too pulled up my huniuns mistaking them for grass   ;D