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    Help with red onion sets!

    Hi everyone,

    I bought some red onions sets from Wilkinsons, so didn't cost a lot, put them aside and forgot about them while I was doing a hundred other things when
    you get a new polytunel.
    I've just come across them and considering they been put away somewhere I
    would have thought they would be shooting a bit by now, but nothing, although
    they do feel firm.
    So, is it worth taking up good growing space if it's a bit late, I havn't grown them before and there are no plant by dates or anything else on the label, but as I say they are basic range, any thoughts please.

    Sunnymay.
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    Put them in. They won't grow unless they are in the soil.

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    • #3
      It say if they feel firm they're probably fine. plants and bulbs have evolved to survive, I doubt it would be a waste of time.
      Besides, Wilkos are probably still selling red onion bulbs from the same stock that have been kept in similar conditions. If they don't have a use by date on them then Wilko's staff wouldn't know when to stop selling them.
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      • #4
        Thanks for your replies, just thought it might be too late for them as I seem to have had them months, I must have got them when they were first brought into the shop then,
        Also didn't want to put them in and do nothing, taking up space of something giving a return, is there a last month, that they would still grow out in the open?
        Sunnymay.

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        • #5
          at the very worst you get spring onions - bang em in!
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          • #6
            If you are running out of space, dot them around your plot or put them closer together than the spacing says.

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            • #7
              Okay.. prepare yourself for a bit of a daft question.. I've wondered this for a while:

              Why at worst would they be spring onions? Can't you just leave them in the gound longer? I thought they were hardy?

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              • #8
                Chris, they will only grow for as long as the growing conditions are good: they don't grow in the winter, and will go to seed the following spring.
                So, bang them in the ground ASAP: they've already lost a month's growth, so probably won't be full size onions, but will be big enough for spring onions or for pickling
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                • #9
                  Ok I sowed mine a while ago - couple months I think, they're foilage is quite tall now, probably 1.5' ?

                  Some leaves are bending over, guessing thats from the rain pounding away at them!

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