What do spring onions look like??

[Vegmonkey]

Have a look at these on my blog? Similar to yours? I hope my grow too!!

[nick the grief]

Doing mine in modules this year as Nick and Piglet suggested and it is working a treat. But as you say Flummery it is not a quick crop.

You actually believed Me & Piglet .... well they say there's one born every minute

I raise pretty well all my stuff in modules I find it a lot more reliable than direct sowing - mainly because I've always been battling weeds on my previous plot so they always got crowded out.

[noidea]

Can I ask a more than likley daft question???

I keep hearing you all talk about modules... do you mean those wee trays that are segmented, different sizes available????

If so how on earth do you manage to transplant them as whenever I have tried the compost falls away and I left with everything in bits...

Is there a knack to it?

Thanks

C

[nick the grief]

you are trying to soon. once they are well established the rootball will holdit all together but do it before they are pot bound

[JennieAtkinson]

I look underneath the modules and once I see a few white shoots, its normally ok to transplant.

Mind you at the moment, with so much to do, my trays are getting stuck to the polytunnel floor as the roots go right through the modules!

[Alice]

Yes you're right about what modules means Noidea. And as Nick and Jennie have said leave them until they are quite well filled with roots, (same as you would for a pot) then you will have no prob with the transplanting.

[Flummery]

I too sow mainly in modules. When I work out the cost of compost and the cost of seed, I reckon a few ounces of compost is cheap at the price! I'm on my 4th bag of general purpose this year but have been able to sow many plants at one per cell and haven't had many misses. Compare that to sowing a row of stuff, half of it doesn't come, you have to thin or transplant the rest. Today I'm sowing Kale and Broc - one was £1.09 and one was £1.39. The seeds keep quite well from year to year and I'll only use 6 of each. Cheapskate? Moi? Oh yes!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Excellent advice everyone! I was looking at my spring onions tonight and was rather worried that nowt seemed to be happening - like you say I must be more patient! Don't know why they are called spring onions - more like autumn ones! Bernie

[Bex]

OMG - i forgot to grow some spring onions!! I've got a packet of white lisbon somewhere...

[todayiwillbemostlygrowing]

Hi I'm growing North Holland Red Blood and Paris silverskin pickling onions. I was worried they weren't growing as well but have left them to their own devices. Mine are 8 weeks along and I can smell the onion smell when I get close to them! so hopefully they are keeping away the carrot fly from the carrots next to them.

Heres what the red spring onions look like after 8 weeks:
http://mostlyiwillbegrowing.wordpres...pring%20Onions

[Hazel at the Hill]

I still have not got the knack of the sp onions - direct sowing has been only sort-of successful (put it this way, I've had no reason to do any thinning...) so I've tried putting a dozen seeds into jiffies then I can just put the whole lot out as suggested, but they have got drowned out .......

Is it too late for me to try the jiffies/modules again?

[sewer rat]

Hazel
You can sow spring onions in succession all summer long if you want.