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    Spring onions - get sowing now!!!

    Spring onions are quite expensive to buy but with some sowing now, and again in April, you can ensure a constant supply right through the summer.

    If you sow some spring onion seeds now like this, you will ensure a nice early crop of scallions to go in those salads.

    Plant the modules out in late March to avoid the worst of the weather, giving some protection if required and start pulling in late April onwards. As you only pull the biggest in any clump, the others carry on growing giving you successional harvesting.

    Give it a go.
    Last edited by pigletwillie; 06-02-2009, 12:56 PM.
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    i've got mine in .... only planted 3 per module though, all looking very healthy ... shall do 6 next time
    Last edited by lynda66; 06-02-2009, 01:00 PM.

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    • #3
      Thanks for the reminder, David! We love spring onions, but I've never tried growing them until last autumn. I have some out in the garden, under the snow (Winter Hardy White Lisbon, natch!), but I really should get some more going ready for summer - I have plenty of seed (Ramrod and regular White Lisbon)...
      Last edited by Eyren; 06-02-2009, 01:06 PM.

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      • #4
        Mine went in about 3 days ago - another batch will go in in about 3 months.

        My last years will be ready as soon as the ground thaws out - put in the raised carrot beds back in August when it was emptied and left over the winter.

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        • #5
          I'll be sowing some next week when the moon chart thing says so.

          It makes no odds to me whether I sow them in pots now or then, so even if the moon thing is a load of old cobblers, I've nothing to lose.
          Last edited by Hazel at the Hill; 06-02-2009, 01:18 PM.

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          • #6
            I did a pot the other day. Nice to know I may have got something right for a change

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            • #7
              Thanks for the tip Pigletwillie, I have had no success growing spring onions before so I shall try your way. I have modules with either 40 or 24 cells per tray - which are best for the 6 seed system?
              Happy Gardening,
              Shirley

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              • #8
                Either chuck, if your worried about the weather, the 24 cell gives a bit more root "wriggle" room and thus will sit for longer before needing to be planted out.

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                • #9
                  Hi Folks,

                  I've not had success in the past so I'll also try this way. Once I've sown them should they stay indoors, heated prop, or cold prop?
                  Cheers

                  Danny

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                  • #10
                    Nice one David thanks for the heads up!! I need to get a few bits going so perhaps as well as the last of the decorating I can get a few things in this weekend! I have had some White Lisbon I started from seed last autumn, they have been in the ground since about September but they have been slow, is this normal?? Never tried them b4! Last time I looked few weeks b4 the snow they were ok but not much past looking like thick grass!
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                    • #11
                      Thanks Piglet, weather not usually a problem here (apart from the rain) so will try the 40 cell tray (I love spring onions and hate paying for them)
                      Happy Gardening,
                      Shirley

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                      • #12
                        Mine were a complete disaster last year so will try again now. Thanks for the heads up.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by broadway View Post
                          Hi Folks,

                          I've not had success in the past so I'll also try this way. Once I've sown them should they stay indoors, heated prop, or cold prop?
                          Just keep em frost free, they are hardy souls but dont like being frozen. The heat of a heated prop will bring them on too quickly so a cold prop to start them off.

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                          • #14
                            I do mine like this in the cold greenhouse. Propper job.
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                            • #15
                              I used my leek thinnings last year as spring onions and nobody noticed they were leeks . They were lovely. This year I will space them properly.

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