Spring onions - a lesson in patience

[Cutecumber]

Just a bit of hope for those of you who worry about your little spindly grass-like onions ever developing...

FINALLY, after about four months, the handful of Red Beard spring onions I sowed with some carrots are beginning to show signs of fattening.

I have never managed to make them come to maturity (and I only grow them for other people anyway) so I chucked a few seeds in with some carrots in a pot. The carrots have been pulled, and the onions are now beginning to look more like they should.

There's a way to go, but I am optimistic.

So the lesson is... patience, patience, patience

[Two_Sheds]

spring onions? mine are going to be autumn onions, if they EVER grow.

[Headfry]

The Boys don't look after their plot next door........but you should see their spring onions!
I weep every time I pass the neglected, beautiful spring onion growing plot

[HappyMouffe]

I'm glad it's not just me with the sloth-like growth rate of spring onions. Mine are starting to grow a bit now, but they've been in for ages just looking like grass.

[Grovsey]

Mine are the same, spindly little fellas.....same as my leeks which were grown inside and then planted out....still spindly....

I sowed some more spring onions at the weekend? Too late???

[Cutecumber]

You never know - I'm probably going to sow some more, but they'll end up in the greenhouse.

I don't know why they are so frustrating - I guess it's because they look so, well, small. How hard can it be to grow to the size of a spring onion?!?!

[Flummery]

Got my 3rd lot set out from modules yesterday. Piglet's method really does work!

[Headfry]

When you think about it.........

from seed to spring onion, not asking a lot really
from seed to giant pumpkin...........

see where I'm coming from here.
Why don't those onions grow??? it's not asking for much growth in a season is it??

[Cutecumber]

Exactly - it's not much to ask at all.

Lazy, that's what I call it.

[terrier]

Got my 3rd lot set out from modules yesterday. Piglet's method really does work!

I must have missed that post. What exactly is Piglet's method?

[Headfry]

Darn right rude ......

[mrskp]

i've just started to pull some white lisbon sown in february.

bloody lovely they are too, but lordy don't they sit back and take their time.

was wondering about sowing another black bucketful now. is there any point ? i might get them by March I suppose.

[Cutecumber]

March 2009, if you're lucky

[Flummery]

Terrier, Piglet puts a small pinch of seed (about 4/5) in each cell of a module and when they have got going, plant the clumps out as they are, about 4 or 5 inches apart each way. They really do get a good start and grown on well, for me, anyway. Pick the big one from each clump when they are ready and the next will follow soon. They just sort of push each other apart as they grow. Best crops of spring onions I've ever had this year.

[mrskp]

March 2009, if you're lucky

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