what time will my onion sets be ready ? (successional planting)

**4Shoes** · 01-03-2018, 10:53 AM

AUTUMN PLANTING ONION SETS
Some varieties of onions are specially bred for planting in autumn and producing a crop in June. They are commonly known as autumn planted onion sets or Japanese onions. They can be grown in most parts of the UK. You should plant these onion sets in September up to mid October and they should produce fully grown onions in June. This will give you onions a month or two before your normal onions mature.

Ref: https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/vege...nions/sets.php

**Martin H** · 01-03-2018, 01:47 PM

Don't be in a hurry to start off your squash, they grow fast. But if you can keep them in pots until mid-June then whip out the onions, you should get a crop.

By then the onions won't have dried off but they will be about their maximum size and perfectly usable. Assuming normal weather, obviously.

**Jungle Jane** · 01-03-2018, 05:41 PM

You could stagger the sowing of squash seeds so if the onions aren’t ready you won’t have too many large plants. A couple of onions could come out the bed whilst the others stay in longer,if you needed to plant out one squash plant?

**Snadger** · 01-03-2018, 07:02 PM

What I usually do is grow the squash in pots until they are ready to go out after the last frost.

If you onions haven't matured by then just pull up four onions in the area you intend planting the squash. You can then just add manure/fertiliser to this bit and plant your squash.

The squash will grow and it doesn't matter too much if they spread out over the onion bed as by the time they do that the onions will be ready to harvest.

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