Onion sets

[jollyroger123]

I planted my red baron ones last week.  Must have been pretty wet as i had half the garden stuck to my boots.  They seem okay though, the ones the birds have pulled out have little roots on them,  No signs of rotting.  Have i been to early???

I live in Fife.  Rainy Scotland

[jollyroger123]

[Robert_Brenchley]

No, not at all. They're evidently growing, which is what you want.

[Rotavator]

I put my onion sets in small pots today using ordinary riddled garden soil with a bit of grit sand mixed in,this way when roots formed and sprouted sets which are" Sturon" I can simply plant out where required and using soil like where they are to grow it avoids the rooting into compost which plants are loth to leave resulting in poor growth.
1 lb bag of sets = 3x40 set up the small pots 40 in a tray are from Aldi about £2.99 per tray and can be used again and again.I also by same method put beetroot seed 4 per pot and when grown about inch high just plant where to grow a foot apart

[manicscousers]

ours are under cover at the moment, early type so will go out next week, kitten, maybe yours are a later type, we'll be planting them through 'til may  :)

[Blue Bird]

Planted out 80 onions yesterday after having them in moduals for 6 days they had loverely roots used both types cheap ones from Wiki's and expensive from marshels
going to do more in the next few days  ;D

[kitten]

Wayhay, we planted about 80 of each red (Red Baron) & white (Sturon) onions at the lottie today  ;D  Some had gone soft (mainly those with the big sprouts!) so we chucked them, did i do the right thing?  ???

Still got another pack (100) of each so might do those in a couple of weeks - are we meant to successional sow onions  :D

[cacran]

I planted out a whole bed of onions yesterday. I was told by a 'woman who knows' that when the Daffs are out, it is time to plant onions. I made a mistake though ( or so she told me) I covered the tips with soil. I had to go over the whole bed and uncover them. I hope the bird have not pinched them. I did put string up with flappy plastic bits on to deter them. will have to cross my fingers. Do you think I have done right, planting now, with the tips showing?

[Rotavator]

further to my post 11th March --today I planted onions out of their pots all have grown strongly about to 2" high strong rooted and easier to put in and avoid trouble of birds pulling the onion set up and having to replant using this method last year I got a really good crop large firm onions and am still eating today they have kept superbly with only the odd one rotting.the dry weather helped for making sure they are really ripened and dried in the sun, is important for good storage throughout the winter period

[allaboutliverpool]

If you plant your sets early next year you will avoid the problem with birds which pull them when they see a nice piece of brown nesting material.There is still time to plant them and if you have any left over, follow my tip on
http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments_Vegetables_onions.html

[miniroots]

Mine are doing lovely!

They've been about a month, none pulled up, all sprouting away like crazy!

I've done an experiment with half the row fed chicken nuts pellet and the other half manure.  The second row I've swapped it round, to control for the fact it's shadier at one end.

We'll have to wait and see if they come out the same shape as the plugs I original started them in.

AllaboutLiverpool - did you speak at a conference last year, about digital technology?  Or is there another blog site Arts about Liverpool?

Sophie