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What i did a lot of years ago with a packet of Red Barron onion seed was to plant them as spring onion then when they were ready as spring onion i left the first one to grow on and picked the next half dozen or so and left the next one and so on so i got my spring onions and the ones i left i let grow into onion bulbs so i got the best of both.

Now there is something for you to try.

I could never grow spring onions until I started to sow them in small modules, 8 or 9 in each section, then planted them out in bunches 6" apart. I am now harvesting bunches every two or three days, and still sowing in the modules for later. Apparently the variety I am growing ( Ishikura?)  can be used like this, or even left to develop into small onions.

I don't have any problem with spring onions but they do take time to get to a good size, so I use shallot sets at the beginning of the season to get an early crop of spring onions.
Each set gives about bunch of spring onions so only use about 6 sets.
Also start my first lot of spring onions in modules in the greenhouse.

Bump for Cam.  ;)

Quote from: Anisemary on June 24, 2011, 00:22:14
I could never grow spring onions until I started to sow them in small modules, 8 or 9 in each section, then planted them out in bunches 6" apart. I am now harvesting bunches every two or three days, and still sowing in the modules for later. Apparently the variety I am growing ( Ishikura?)  can be used like this, or even left to develop into small onions.

Me too and I use a very sandy compost to sow them in. I grew some lovely furio and white Lisbon spring onions this year. The furio are now quote large so I use them as shallots. I will continue to sow my spring onions in modules.

Duke