Catch crop onions?

[Florence Fennel]

Can I grow onions between calabrese plants? There's an awful lot of space at the moment between the plants, but I know they grow to a huge size so would they stunt the growth of onions?

[Florence Fennel]

Spot the avatar? Thanks TS you were right, after the brave pill I did it - hooray!

[Snadger]

Calabrese are'nt frost hardy are they? Mine are just about finished! You don't per chance mean PSB do you? If so I would say NO...........for the reason you gave yourself!

[Florence Fennel]

Calabrese are'nt frost hardy are they? Mine are just about finished! You don't per chance mean PSB do you? If so I would say NO...........for the reason you gave yourself!

Young plants from Suttons went in about a fortnight ago. Have done this before Snadge very successfully, so hope I get the same result this year. My family aren't as keen on PSB as Calabrese, hence the crop. Hope you haven't put a hex on me now! Thanks for levelling me, I'll site the onions somewhere else. I've already said on another thread that I have some troughs I can use after summer bedding and loads of flower buckets, so that will help.
Flo

[Snadger]

This is why I asked!

Growing Calabrese - How to Grow Calabrese from Allotment Vegetable Growing Advice and Guides

[FionaH]

Flo I tried onions in troughs last year with very little success. I don't think they were deep enough.
The ones in the ground and in buckets did much better

[Alison]

This is why I asked!

Growing Calabrese - How to Grow Calabrese from Allotment Vegetable Growing Advice and Guides

There are lots of different types of calibrase which harvest at different rates. The one I'm growing this year isn't ready yet and wasn't sown until July / early August. Am guessing it might not be as tender as some to eat but hopefully not as tender to grow either seeing as the packet said ready to eat in November! Can't remember the variety but it's definitely not PSB (which I am also growing and is now HUGE!)

[Snadger]

There are lots of different types of calibrase which harvest at different rates. The one I'm growing this year isn't ready yet and wasn't sown until July / early August. Am guessing it might not be as tender as some to eat but hopefully not as tender to grow either seeing as the packet said ready to eat in November! Can't remember the variety but it's definitely not PSB (which I am also growing and is now HUGE!)

What I was trying to get at was.................. that there wouldn't be so much of a problem putting onions between any greens that are harvested this year.(Calabrese) They will be 3/4 grown now and will be taken out before onion sets start to really start growing in the spring. To save root disturbance on the onions it would be advisable to just cut the calabrese off rather than dig up
If the greens (whatever they may be) don't mature until the spring or early summer........then I would say it wasn't feasible to plant sets in between them.

[Florence Fennel]

Flo I tried onions in troughs last year with very little success. I don't think they were deep enough.
The ones in the ground and in buckets did much better

Bearing in mind the advice from Snadger, I am going to designate a bed to onions and after your experience Fiona, I'll use the flower buckets I have now the tomatoes are all harvested. How many did you plant to a bucket?
Flo

[FionaH]

Bearing in mind the advice from Snadger, I am going to designate a bed to onions and after your experience Fiona, I'll use the flower buckets I have now the tomatoes are all harvested. How many did you plant to a bucket?
Flo

Three to a big bucket I think

[Florence Fennel]

Three to a big bucket I think

Thanks Fiona - looks like I'm going to be using an awful lot of buckets!

[hamsterqueen]

I hadn;t though of onions of buckets! Brilliant. I;ll try some .Have a metre square raised bed too. What sort of spacing would you suggest in that?

I have been willing it to get colder so that I can plant my onions out!

[Florence Fennel]

I planted mine into the ground last October 4" apart and about 8" between the rows, this might sound a bit tight, but I'm short on space and I could still get the hoe between the rows! They all made a good size, so I'm growing three times as many this year. Well, trying to if I can find the space. Looks like some more lawn is going to have to bite the dust and all the emptied flower buckets refilled!

[hamsterqueen]

another metre of the lawn bit teh dust this year!!