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I have my onion sets all planted up in plugs, waiting in the cold frame and sprouting nicely (as recommended on this forum!).  Is time to plant them out yet?

Probably is....but wait if it's too wet (like here!!)
don't want them rotting off :)

QuoteI have my onion sets all planted up in plugs,

How big are the plugs? and where do you have them growing?

What I am concerned about is; if they become 'root bound' the time you have gained by planting in this way may be lost when you plant them out!

Sets should go straight in the ground, but its far too wet at the moment as said above they will only rot, I was going to put mine in today but we had aout 2 ihches of rain since last night. :'( :'( :'(

Too wet here at the moment - I so need to get digging! - Anyway just looked at my bag of onion sets and some are sprouting  :o  Will they be okay until I can get them in?

Mine were sprouting in the bag, which is why I put them in plugs (little tiny ones).  They've only been in a couple of weeks - but I don't think they should stay there much longer.

It is quite damp here - but nothing out of the ordinary - If I wait for the dry they'll still be in plugs in June!

Should I feed the soil when they go in?  Chicken pellets?  Or does that make them bolt?

we planted ours out last week, although we have raised beds so the soil's not too wet, they were in pots for 3 weeks before that as they were all sprouting..it was either that or throw them away  ;D

If its only damp Miniroots I would stick some in but I can't believe it's only damp in the rainy city. ;D ;D ;D

i am hoping to plant mine ensitu next weekend.

Ive planted mine and watered them as well, oops :-[

Don't believe the lies they tell you about Manchester!  We've had a dry weekend and a beautiful sunny day yesterday.  It's coming down now mind you.

I got all the onions in yesterday, they were a bit plug bound - but I gave them some extra verbal encouragement.

I'm made up it's raining up here, I can't get to the plot today and all the transplants need watering  ;D

Temp dropped to 2 degrees here in cambridge and it only 5 now and its wet - yuck!!

Onions that have sprutted in  the bag will grow on ok ..
Use a trowel to plant  them  out ,,Dont just push em in as you may do with the sets  that haven't sprutted ...As for preparing the  bed, lime raked in prior to planting seems to help...I find aliums like lime ...Cheers Jim

Quotethey were a bit plug bound

I hope the root system was not 'solid' or they might struggle.

If the were you will probably still see the basic shape of the plug when you harvest your onions.

Fingers crossed!! I hope they turn out OK

Eeeeek!!!

Just planted my onion sets this afternoon!!!

Bit worried just reading all this, that it may be too wet!!  ::)

Nobbs xx  8)

Got mine in open plugs and hoping to get them out proper next weekend...

planted some more today, still got 50 white to go   :)

I bought my sets a couple of weeks ago and have not yet done anything with them. should I be doing?? If so, what. I found some onion bulbs left in the greenhouse from the previous tennant. they have sprouted a bit. What shall I do with them? (no rude answers!!!)

I ordered some from Suttons & got a letter today saying they will be delivered early April - is that too late?