Spring onions - get sowing now!!!

[FionaH]

this a good time to start the leeks off as well? bearing in mind I have an unheated GH to put them in when they show?

[smallblueplanet]

Okay PW one more go at growing spring onions! What variety are you growing btw? Also looking at your blog are the modules shown in a full-sized seed tray?

[broadway]

Just keep em frost free, they are hardy souls but dont like being frozen. The heat of a heated prop will bring them on too quickly so a cold prop to start them off.

Thanks PW - I love spring onions

[pigletwillie]

They are Mnada, 40 to a tray, the varieties were white lisbon and red beard.

[lynda66]

i really really need more windowsill space, have 5 trays of leeks onions and spring onions, and 2 trays of tomatoes and other miscellaneous stuff, and 2 trays of peas and beans and a tray of experimental caulis and ..... cabbagy things for the chooks ..... what do you do when you run out of space??

[FionaH]

Just spent a happy hour sowing spring onions and leeks. My kitchen is covered in compost Far too cold to be doing with the Greenhouse

[Herbie]

Thanks for the reminder PW. I am going to sow Ishikura. Has anyone tried this variety?
I am also going to wait and sow as per the moon phase. Last year I did another variety and can't remember what it was, but they turned out ok. Will only sow a few as I don't have enough room.

[TonyF]

That's interesting PW because we can buy onions and leeks, that sort of size, ready to plant out, usually in bundles of 50 or 100 for silly money.

I use them every year and np raising them, use the thinnings as spring onions.

[Wren]

i really really need more windowsill space, have 5 trays of leeks onions and spring onions, and 2 trays of tomatoes and other miscellaneous stuff, and 2 trays of peas and beans and a tray of experimental caulis and ..... cabbagy things for the chooks ..... what do you do when you run out of space??

You build a cold frame

My friend chucked out her pine draws so i used them as the sides, an we built the lid as instructed by Novembers issue of 'GYO'. I used sheet plastic for the lid glazing though as we had had a new mattress delivered all wrapped in good strong, clear plastic.
I had a new washing machine too so i kept the polystyrene and used it to sit in the base o the cold frame. My onions, spring onions, an leeks are now tucked up in my cold frame in their modules, sat on a base o polystyrene an covered over with a bit o extra fleece for now.

That leaves space on my window sill for all the seedlings that hate the cold an need extra mollycoddling until late spring.

Wren

[bramble]

Sowed mine about three weeks ago. All are up and growing well. Sowed, Red Baron, Ammirello, (spanish yellow) and anIrish heritage variety named Baun.

[lynda66]

You build a cold frame


Wren

think it'll be easier to put the polytunnel back up lol

[MKPoshfan]

sowing

don't know about the epicentre of rugby - is Welford Road still standing? <g> - but here in Milton Keynes it feels like being the epicentre of the great freeze......the only thing I will be doing in my garden for the next few days is keeping the birds' water topped up and unfrozen. I've got one batch of spring cabbage seedlings and one of courgettes on my windowsill and no idea of when I will be able to move them on

[cupcake]

Good stuff! I got some white lisbon seed with my shopping on Wed. I'll get them started, after the rugby of course!

[Eyren]

Lovely and sunny here today, so I sowed a 40-module tray - half "Ramrod" and half "Crimson Forest". Should look very pretty in the raised bed, especially if I plant them out in a pattern!

[MrsC]

I'm going to plant mine tomorrow, lisbon and red beard, I love spring onions and grew them exactly as pw said, last year, still have a few in the ground which i'm still pulling.
84p a bunch in sainsburys!!!! I think not!