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Title: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: silly billy on March 31, 2007, 09:12:14
Some of my sets which are still in a net bag have shoots on them up to 3 inches, can I plant them out?
Title: Re: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: tim on March 31, 2007, 09:15:40
Why not?

But net them, or the birds will have them out again.
Title: Re: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: growmore on March 31, 2007, 09:29:33
Cut net from around  them and bury them to bottom of shoot..They should grow ok ..
Title: Re: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: marestail murderer on April 01, 2007, 06:34:27
thank god for that!!!!
had this crazy vision from the thread heading that some maniac was running round with a shotgun committing onionocide!
Title: Re: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: potterfanpete on April 01, 2007, 07:02:32
There are loads in our garden centre still at full price, and they are just like yours silly billy. I assume, therefore, that they are OK, as otherwise they would not be being sold.
Title: Re: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: tim on April 01, 2007, 08:38:11
Want to bet?  They're still selling last year's grow bags which have been stored in the open.
Title: Re: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: sazhig on April 01, 2007, 16:33:53
oooo glad someone else has asked this....I have some sets that PILs gave me last year that I completely forgot about & they have all started sprouting....presume they will be ok to plant this year?

Can I just sound a bit thick for a mo....do you plant with the shoot going up or down?....never grown onions before ???
Title: Re: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: saddad on April 01, 2007, 19:19:56
Up... I too had visions of the Shot Gun weilding Maniac... shouldn't have watched Full Metal Jacket on Friday Night.... whole new meaning to a pile of sh*t...
::)
Title: Re: Shooting Onion Sets!!
Post by: cambourne7 on April 01, 2007, 19:23:13
i found 2 bags of onion sets in aug last year that should have gone in march 06 and planted them anyway and the crop is almost ready now as we have had such a mild winter  ;D

So i would recomend you plant away, although the ones with shoots are the ones the birds will go for first.