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The packet says they are easy to grow but I've tried sun, semi-shade and shade, inside and out,  home made compost, multi-purpose compost and JI no 2 and still I get weedy looking things which don't look like they will progress.  I'm not over-watering them or letting them dry out.  Any advice would be welcome.

G xx

Strange - so easy?
Just any old compost - 10 seeds per plug - plant each plug out when seedlings are 3-4" tall.

Hi Georgie, hi Tim! Im doing Spring onions for the first time this year in pots so Im afraid I can't help you Im afraid! BUT, Your advice helps me too Tim- cheers! Dan :-)

Same here  :-[, i'm growing them for the first time also.  Any advice would be fantastic, wouldn't it Dan  ;)
Susie x

I just sprinkled them along a row last year and they all grew up. Don't know what I did right.

I have had little luck growing outdoors, although last years sowing that I left in the plot as weedy little things are looking good ( 5 - 6 - inch proper looking spring onions)
I do regularly grow them in containers or in the greenhouse (use the freebie containers that produce from the supermarket comes in) by just sprinkling them sparsely, covering with about a quarter of an inch of soil and give them a good watering.  This year I am trying them in a length old old guttering.

They took six months or so TC?   :o  :o  :o

G xx

If not longer Georgie. I must have sowed them July time hoping for a late crop and as nothing significant grew  just left them. TC

Oi-what happened to my reply????-Tim is the man-I could grow them easy peasy until we moved here-then 11 years of hit and misss-Then Tim`s plug idea-it works

Quote from: tim on April 03, 2006, 18:05:06
Strange - so easy?
Just any old compost - 10 seeds per plug - plant each plug out when seedlings are 3-4" tall.

Another vote for Tim! (Steph your reply came in while I was posting this). I have HISTORY in failed s/onion...then I planted as T. suggested, last year for the 1st time.......SUCCESS!!

:-* Tim - Lishka

Many thanks Tim, I'll try your method.  :)

G xx

What size plugs Tim?

Someone had to ask - glad it wasn't me! ;)

G xx

And boy am I glad you started this thread off!

;D

Quote from: Two Choices on April 03, 2006, 19:42:34
last years sowing that I left in the plot as weedy little things are looking good ( 5 - 6 - inch proper looking spring onions)

Mine too! But I could swear they're not where I planted them.  ;D

Geoff.

Touche, Am.   ;)

G

Yup, thanks to Tim again!  I now put a pinch of  seeds per cell - I suppose they are an inch square, and then plant them out in a little cluster.  You then pull them as a perfect bunch, just like you buy at the greengrocers!

It's excellent ideas like that one that make me glad I was told about this forum.  :)

Quote from: DenBee on April 03, 2006, 22:43:58
It's excellent ideas like that one that make me glad I was told about this forum.  :)

Yup totally agree, thanks Tim via Emma ;D

Thanks to all - I thought for a moment Tim meant those little Jiffy 7 plugs - had visions of trying to pour seed into the tiny hole at the top!