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I  usually  plant  out my onion sets and shallots in mid to late Feb .
It depends on soil  if it is dry enough  and rakes ok they will be ok ..I wouldnt plant them into wet cloggy soil ..They can stand a bit of frost if needs be..
When planting I leave just tip showing through ground .hopefully this way it saves em pushing  themselves out of ground and you having to keep putting them back in ..
But blackies and thrushes may have a tug at em and pull Me one or two out that will need popping back in ..
Jim

Hi,

I planted some Japanese onion sets at the end of October, the bag they came in didn't tell me when to get them out.
This is the first time I have grown anything that you can eat but not the last. Can anyone give me a clue.

Ta Ken.

I have 2 loads of Japanese onions in, red and white, and they will stay there until early summer, or until the rot starts to take casualties, then I will have them all out.  Can't think when I lifted them last year, but you can start pulling them as soon as they are filling out and using them like spring onions if you wish, or leave them to get bigbigbig!  They are meant to fill in the gap before maincrop onions are ready, they don't store for terribly long, but are mighty fine!  ;D

so does all this mean that I can put my shallot sets in my lottie in about 2 weeks...do I have to cover them with fleece or glass ???....and Ive got spring onion seeds ....can they go in a seed tray now....please say yes as I am new to this and am dying to plant something in the plot that I have spent the last 6 months digging over

My shallots went in at Christmas........ :-\

Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on February 03, 2005, 22:38:15
My shallots went in at Christmas........ :-\

............with the turkey............?   ;D

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