Spring onions... Should they be thined???

[Germinater]

Hi all .I sowed spring onions last month direct to bed .
All are dowing really good now but not sure if to thin them or not ??will it help them grow or are they happy little closer together as they arnt the largest veg???
Kind of think I should but thought I would check just to be sure...

[mrpaulbradley]

Hi
I wouldn't bother. They tend to sort themselves out, pushing for their own wee bit of space. I just harvest the ones that are just too close thereby 'thinning' as I go.
Ps lucky you the seeds I sowed last month haven't shown yet :-( still very cold up north though!

[Germinater]

Yer we have had a very good spring so far.
Thanks fo the advice il just leave and eat herbs have come through to all but my chives but did plant back ups in germinater so think il just replant to bed when a little bigger .funny though that coriander and dill have come through but not chives thought they would be the first to show through

[Creemteez]

Hi, when I sow Spring Onions I just put pinches of ten seeds or so at 6 inch intervals along the row. The onions come up in convenient little bunches which make room for themselves and can be pulled all at once. No thinning, no disturbing the others when you want to pull some!

[Jono]

I planted some at the weekend, and the seed packet said they didn't need thinning at all.

[King Carrot]

Mine don't need thinning as the slugs and snails eat them all the little barstewards, that’ll learn me to think they don’t like onions. They actually eat a spare tomato plant as well that I had popped into an fishbox I grew salad in last year, the next day it was just a slimy stump.

[Germinater]

Like the idea of 10seeds then spacing 6inch thanks will do that next time ..
Don't see the obvious until someone points it out. :/

[Florence Fennel]

Hi, when I sow Spring Onions I just put pinches of ten seeds or so at 6 inch intervals along the row. The onions come up in convenient little bunches which make room for themselves and can be pulled all at once. No thinning, no disturbing the others when you want to pull some!

I like that idea very much CT, thanks for the tip.

[Bren In Pots]

I sow mine in little pots just a few seeds every 3 weeks-ish. then plant the whole pot when they're an inch high.

[JamesM]

I didn't bother last year and had a really good crop. From what i saw they force each other apart if they need space but as you say they small and they grow vertically so it's no biggie for me

[tumbling tom]

I have done mine in a small seed tray and and have had hundreds germinated. It is alright to transfer them isn't it or have I boobooed

[JamesM]

can't imagine there'd be any probs at all, they seeme like tenacious little things to me and only had shallow roots from what i saw

[Two_Sheds]

I ... have had hundreds germinated. It is alright to transfer them

Transplant? Yes of course. I hate pricking out (transplanting) myself, so I don't use seed trays. Modules are good, or even 3" pots (they allow deeper rooting than seed trays do)