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My onions were poor this year,ive used the best and im now left with lots of small ones!
Question is can i replant these tiddlers in the spring?

you can but they will almost certainly bolt leaving you with nothing worthwhile. I convert mine into pickled onions!!  :-\

what was it with them anyway, we planted them, they grew roots and leaves (do onions have leaves or are they something else)
we waited untill the stems bent over and behold the b&%^& things were the same size they started at

lbb

they really are hungry little beggars, aren't they..we put the bonfire ash on in spring, it did seem to give them a kick..Eric on our site (83, been growing veggies since he was 20), uses sulphate of can't remember if it's potash or ammonia for onions, maybe someone can put me straight  ;D
I know we put some chicken manure pellets in before we planted them..we did have a good year  :)

Quotesulphate of can't remember if it's potash or ammonia for onions, maybe someone can put me straight

Sulphate of Ammonia is a high nitrogen feed which is applied early on to onions to encourage green growth.

Once the onions begin to swell they want potash and no nitrogen.

To get rid of surplus nitrogen at the swelling stage I have let weeds grow in abundance and it seems to work.

That's my excuse for weeds on my onion bed  ::) but seriously it seems to work!!