Spring onions - get sowing now!!!

[Phill]

I've never had any success with spring onions...so I'm definately trying this method, Thanks for the tip it looks like a great idea.

[pigletwillie]

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!

The price for half a dozen springers truely is scarey isnt is mrsc. Two sowings a year will do you for the whole year, careful with the over wintered ones though as they can go a bit "hot".

[Two_Sheds]

Right, mine are sown, thanks for the reminder Piglet. I've hidden them behind the curtain in the bedroom (I don't bother drawing them in winter, so Mr Sheds won't even know they're there).

All the other windowsills are already full

[nemo]

indigestion caused by spring onions

i love spring onions but i get very bad indigestion from them i have tried several varieties with no success so this year i am going to grow shallots from seed and use them as spring onions.has anybody else got the same problem with spring onions

[Jameslovell]

Just planted my spring onions. I didn't have an spare cell modules here (all at the allotment which is snowed in, tut) so i used two half seeds trays and planted 12 'piles' of seeds to recreate cells. Hope the roots from each cell don't get too entwined.

I'm planing on growing the spring onions in with my carrots and I read somewhere this helps with carrot fly. The onion smell confuses or distracts the fly. Is this right?

[krazy_krok]

I read that too, the smell of the carrot also distracts the onion fly me thinks

[Jameslovell]

Double bonus. Def going to merge my carrot bed and spring onion bed and have two bed of 50/50 each.

[MrsC]

The price for half a dozen springers truely is scarey isnt is mrsc. Two sowings a year will do you for the whole year, careful with the over wintered ones though as they can go a bit "hot".

Yeah they are a bit hot PW but nice to still be able to pull something out the ground, I tend to use them finely chopped in stews and sauces at this time of year

[IgglePiggle]

Could you plant themoutside but with maybe a plastic bottle over the top? Also do you have to sow them indoors? Haven't got the space or compost as we doing house up

[Two_Sheds]

do you have to sow them indoors?

No.
Just wait until spring and sow them direct into the soil

[BrideXIII]

there is a distinct lack of modules in my house!!! so i cut 20 loo rolls in half

20 for white lisbons
20 for red beards

just hoping they will do until i can get them out, we have gone from snow to rain and i still can't get out in the garden tis a swamp.

[kentvegplot]

Thanks for the reminder - did mine at the weekend and they're in the cold greenhouse.

[jimbojetset]

great tip PW thanks! would love any more on timings to keep a steady supply!

[FionaH]

Have sown mine and they are on the window sill, would they be better off in unheated greenhouse? Its flamin cold out there still!

[zazen999]

Fiona

You get stronger plants if left in an unheated greenhouse, in the long run BUT they take aeons to germinate.

I'm letting mine germinate indoors, then going into an unheated room, then going outdoors, protected by plastic greenhouse/plastic upside down clear storage box.

Whens spring coming again????