Over wintered onions

[Psi (Pronounced 'Si'!)]

All

I am doing red and white O/W onions in raised beds and want to get them in this weekend.  I have read the books but what do people reckon to the spacing?  just enough for a hoe between them?  That is my current thinking.  I have the beds all ready - heavy clay for have dug in some council compost (no nutrious value but good humus content) and limed - does this sound ok.  On heavy clay by the way.

Psi

[Psi (Pronounced 'Si'!)]

[Sparkly]

I would make them 2 hoes between them so you have a chance of weeding once they start to swell up. Some people like to sow them closer and then pull every other one out as spring onions, but this hasn't worked well for me. Probably because I don't pull them out early enough so end up with a smaller crop. I also end up hand weeding! The bed with the bigger spacing this year did alot better.

[chriscross1966]

Hoe plus onion diameter plus an inch or two to cope with the exceptional crop of massive onions you'll bew harvesting next year that might well make page four of your local paper normally and front page on a light news day....

[Psi (Pronounced 'Si'!)]

cool. Thanks. I must admit I am a hand weeder rather than hoer - sad eh!

[hippydave]

cant beat hand weeding very satisfing

[kt.]

cant beat hand weeding very satisfing

I always have plenty to do if you are ever bored 8) ;D 8)

[grawrc]

Within reason, the bigger the spacing the bigger the onion. I usually leave 6-8 inches each way (and then hand weed just in case!)  ;)

[cornykev]

I hand weed as well, but as the onions get to full size I generaly leave the weeds alone, Psi did you get your onions from the Clockhouse.   ;D ;D ;D