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    turbo onions help please!!!!!

    Hi all first post
    i have purchased 150 turbo onion sets from wilkinsons, i do not have the room to plant all of them and have around 50 over, can i keep them till next year? or should i discard or give away ? rather than waste.
    regards keith
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    Plant them closer together, and harvest alternate ones smaller leaving the ones you have got space for to go full term.

    If you grow in blocks rather than rows you can get 3 times as many in the same area.



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    • #3
      As zazen says,plant closer together in a block,say 5 or 6 in all ways,if you have space between other crops,do the same,between rows of carrots,groups in between strawberries,you will be suprised how many you will get in,
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      • #4
        try sticking some in some pots, also pretty much anywhere between plants in borders etc, they might not get as big but at least you'll get something and not waste them. Think 'old fashioned cottage garden' flowers and veg together

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        • #5
          Spacing allowed for most plants including onions are very generous follow the others advice and plant closer together.

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          • #6
            thanks all, i have planted in rows, and will cuddle the remainders up tight
            regards keith

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            • #7
              Cwtch 'em up a bit Keith
              Welcome to the Forum too - and if you put your location on your profile it'll stop everyone asking you where you live

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              • #8
                Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                Cwtch 'em up a bit Keith
                Welcome to the Forum too - and if you put your location on your profile it'll stop everyone asking you where you live
                ah thanks veggiechicken all sorted now

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                • #9
                  Do you fancy coming along to the RHS show in Cardiff and meeting up with some of us lovely people http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ril_70623.html

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                    Do you fancy coming along to the RHS show in Cardiff and meeting up with some of us lovely people http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ril_70623.html
                    I would love to come along the problem i have is, i have just had a major operation, ie appendix/large bowel and colon, and walking right now is very tiring, if i feel up to it by then, well hell yes i will be
                    there thanks for the invite x

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                    • #11
                      Hope you recover soon Keith If you haven't been before, its not a huge show - nothing like Chelsea

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                      • #12
                        If you plant em REALLY close to each other you can use them as spring onions once the foliage has grown a bit. The old 'husk' just peels off!
                        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                        Diversify & prosper


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