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Hello again everyone

I was wondering whether I should put the spring onion seeds straight in the ground or plant them in trays in the conservatory until they have grown a bit and transplant them later?

Thanks in advance

Either... I usually sow a row direct to mark my Parsnips until they germinate..  :)

I'd definitely sow them direct, as they will grow very close together. You scarcely need 1cm between the plants.

How fine a tilth can you manage? I don't get very good germination sowing direct, so do a few to a cell and then transplant. Or at least I did till I spread onion rot all round my plot..... :'(

Onions are not fussy so just finish like sand and a few pea and bean size clods will be fine..

I grow in modules to start but then I am on clay and a fine tilth isn't possible..

Just planted out our cell grown spring onions in small clumps  :)

I can't get a fine enough tilth so I cover with multi purpose or sand... and keep damp until germinated..  :-\

I tend to sow them eight or 10 seeds to a cell, then plant out each cell as a clump or bunch when they're strong enough, and dig them up as a bunch as I need them. Digging some soil up with them and putting them in a jar or something on the windowsill means they stay 'alive' and fresh quite a long time provided they're kept damp

Geoff.

I've got groups of seedlings in loo rolls, almost ready to plant out in small clumps. Even so, germination is not perfect.

I dig a deep drill and fill with compost and plant in that with all my seeds

Quote from: euronerd on April 02, 2012, 17:33:20
I tend to sow them eight or 10 seeds to a cell, then plant out each cell as a clump or bunch when they're strong enough, and dig them up as a bunch as I need them. Geoff.

I do the same.

I've got some thinly sown in strip modules.... it's an experiment to see if it's possible to pull out individual ones from that sort of thing.... I like the control you get with modules, and the fact that you do your sowing and initial growing in the warm/dry no matter what the weather is throwing at us...

I have had a few germinate from a direct sowing about 3 weeks ago but it's not great. All teh ones I transplanted from modules died...
If these ones don't work, it's the absolute last time I try.

Open ground for me but do need to keep soil moist.