Shrinking spring onions

[Bal]

I gave up on spring onions years ago Marb. 3 things i cant grow:

Radish
Spring Onions
Chives



All everyday items and all supposed to be easy.....not for me there not

Strange as it seems these are three items I can grow

[Potstubsdustbins]

I disagree that they need to be in the ground. I grow them in troughs 6" deep x 6" wide x 18" long.

I have to say though I gave up on white Lisbon some time ago and now only grow Guardsman. Germination is hit and miss for me so following advice from here I sow a good pinch of seed in 3" pots 8 pots to start with which will fill my trough followed by 2 pots every fortnight. Pots that have poor germination are discarded the rest go in to their toughs. Two troughs will see me through the season. I always do a planting in Autumn for early onions but this year that failed for some reason,

In the troughs I use used compost sweetened with grow more then add a pelleted onion fertiliser.

[Containergardener]

I grow in troughs or pots , any pots, even a few in hanging baskets with salads. Mine have been very slow this yr to germinate but after advice I covered them and added bubble wrap , it worked, have transplanted some today. White Lisbon and Apache I have this yr. I don't fuss them, I dont fuss anything . They have had some food in old compost and a water.

[Marb67]

Well the Shrinking continues with some of them getting smaller, yellowing, some have just broken in half at the base but there is no eveidence of onion fly and they are covered over with a fleece dome. The ones that are ok are stillvery small as are my carrots. Fortunatley I had some spare in trays to replace them. When is the danger of onion and carot fly over ?

[Nannysally99]

Mine are doing nothing this year Marb.
I sowed a whole row of seed tape and got - 4 spindly spring onions
You are not alone

[SusieG]

Marb, yours look far, far better than mine - which look like 'hairs' .....

I've sown some 'tape' so I'll just have to wait and see if they do any better ....

[SusieG]

Here's one : 3 months growth .....
What a specimen..!!!!!

[bramble]

I sow mine in clumps in modules. When the roots start to grow through the bottom I plant the clumps out without thinning them out. They seem to find their own space and I dont have any trouble with them.
Usually sow White Lisbon or Apache.

[Scoot]

I sowed some carrots in the bucket where the first lot failed!

Tried some more in normal garden soil in a growing bag! They seem OK at the minute.

[Marb67]

I sow mine in clumps in modules. When the roots start to grow through the bottom I plant the clumps out without thinning them out. They seem to find their own space and I dont have any trouble with them.
Usually sow White Lisbon or Apache.

I will have to try that. The reason I am spacing them is I am growing in square foot modules but I could break the rules a bit ��

[veggiechicken]

Live dangerously, Marb
I always plant in clumps too - then you don't notice the odd weedy one

[Marb67]

Tiny spring onions (again)

Well for the life of me I cannot seem to ever grow spring onions to any decent size like shop bought. Some that were started early spring are still in the soil and still not even the girth of a pencil. Gave a feed of bfb some weeks ago but to no avail.

The variety was Ramrod (a strong, larger onion) so why have they not grown in months and months of summer sun in the soil ? Should I still leave them growing through winter or bring them in greenhouse ? I'm stumped

[roitelet]

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

[Greenleaves]

I can't grow decent size ones either, so to compensate I grow onion sets with zero spacing and use those

[Potstubsdustbins]

If spring onions or for that matter any crop fails, they are only so many things that can be the cause.

Condition of the soil PH etc.

Water, to much or little.

Sun, to much to little.

Feed to little..

Disease or pests

There may be others but these basics have to be right.