Shrinking spring onions

[lolie]

You are not the only one, I have never grown spring onions successfully!

I've never had any luck with them either. I'm at the "throw a whole packet of seed in a pot" stage with them.

[Cadalot]

Spring Onions are one vegetable that I have has a lot of success with over the last six years until white rot sets in and then it's harvest as many as you can. This year I'm trying a different approach see Alans Allotment: SF60 Onions not sure how well it's going to pan out but it's got to be worth a go

[Snoop Puss]

I was going to say, Marb, that I have never had any success with spring onions, but that Cadalot has a brilliant system that is encouraging me to have another go. But I see he's already commented. Looks to be well worth a go. I tried for years and just gave up. I think, to be fair, that I just lost patience with them. They seem to take forever, and yet they're not all that big!

I bet even though you're disappointed with yours, they're better than anything I ever managed to grow. And I bet they taste good.

[lolie]

Inspired by all the various challenges on here, I decided to give it another go. I'm convinced that part of the reason for my lack of success with spring onions is ants stealing the seeds, so I just put a ton of Savel seeds in two 150mm pots which are going to live on the draining board in my kitchen for now.

If more than a couple germinate, then I'm right about the ants. The seed packet says they don't need to be thinned so I probably won't even transplant them if they survive the first few weeks. I'll just move the pots outside once they're well established.

[KevinM67]

Have you ever thought about taking up golf or something ?

[Marb67]

Oh gosh no. My dad loves it but I see no point. I am a creative person, not sporty.

[Nicos]

This is the first year I've had decent spring onions!

Thing is, they'd been planted next to a row of beetroot and got lost beneath their leaves.
I do wonder if perhaps the shelter from 'extremes' in temperature and not too much access to water might have helped?
Just a thought

[Marb67]

Well I planted mine with beetroot but to no avail. They just go thinner and whispier till they are almost non existent. Planted out a healthy load into another salad raised bed that has a pyramid netted enclosure. Evrything else in that bed has grown well but the spring onions (new seeds that came up strong and healthy) have done absolutley nothing. Ziltch. Actually now smaller, thinner than they were when I planted them out. Why oh why oh why is it so hard to grow onions despite feeding a little bfb

[Nicos]

Blizzare isn't it?
Mine are rubbish this year too, although the beetroot have done really well

[Marb67]

Beetroot were tiny too. I have more harvest from their leaves, although I had to weed through all the ones damaged by beeet leaf miner (another of the many pests I have to contend with)

[Nicos]

Sometimes makes you wonder why we bother....but it makes the successes so satisfying!

At least you had beetroot leaves
My spring onions have been used in recipes in place of chives ( which also didn't do well this year - too hot perhaps?)

[Marb67]

Spring onions dying tips

Well here I go with spring onions again. Sowed from seed, healthy plants transplanted into deep, wooden trough with professional grow bag compost with rock dust. Watered well and plenty of sunlight and again, they fail to grow in diameter and the tips are going thin and wispy, drying out and withering

[veggiechicken]

Marb, I've added this post to your previous ones as i think you'll have much the same answers.
I've no idea how they grow the spring onions that they sell in the shops as I can't grow anything remotely like them.

[veggiechicken]

I don't know which type you grow, but have you tried the Bunching onions like Ishikura and Shimonita?
https://www.kingsseeds.com/Products/...Onion-Ishikura

I've had more success with these than the White Lisbon type.

[Scarlet]

They look good enough to eat to me? Have you tried any?