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    Hi All.
    Can I pass ob a tip I learned years ago regarding spring onions
    Some of the supermarket onions are larger and tastier than some from seeds we buy.
    Choose a bunch of your choice I use a bucket for this with holes in the base fill with a good compost.
    Cut the onions leaving an inch of root plant so you can just see the tops they will grow on. when large enough cut off leaving the roots to grow again I use a bucket to pop them in the green house in the winter.
    I have kept these going for over 26 years

  • #2
    Thanks Mickey - good tip.

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    • #3
      I've tried this with celery - got a nice plant! There are quite a few grow from scrap videos.

      Mickey, have you kept the same spring onion roots going for 26 years?!

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      • #4
        Hi Kitty.
        Yes the same roots replaced the bucket twice , the compost every 2 or 3 years
        The knack is to harveat when tall enough which stops them going to seed

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        • #5
          I'll give this a go. thanks.
          Location....East Midlands.

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          • #6
            That sounds like a neat trick. I'm hopeless at growing spring onions (and can't buy them here). I'll have to try again and then grow them like this. If I've got it right, you essentially grow them a bit like chives, cut-and-come-again.

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            • #7
              what a good tip,thanks,
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              • #8
                Its all about turning a plant that we regard as an annual into a perennial, by leaving the roots in situ.
                I'm doing it with leeks, which are bunching up like spring onions.

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                • #9
                  Hi veggichicken not quite bunching onions as each root provides one top which is removed. ....ad finitum

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                  • #10
                    Hi Mickey, I've always been confused by the spring or is it bunching onion question
                    https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ing_95575.html

                    Next time I see some spring onions with roots for sale, I'll buy a bunch and try it your way.

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                    • #11
                      I'm not sure I understand where you are cutting and what you are planting. A photo would be brilliant but, failing that - are you just planting the very bottom bit with the roots on, i.e. the part I normally discard? So I could buy a bunch of spring onions, trim off the roots with just the very bottom of the white part, eat the onion, and plant the root?

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                      • #12
                        I do the same with Bacon. I put the empty packaging in the fridge and within a week it's regrown with fresh bacon.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by mickeymoose View Post
                          Hi Kitty.
                          Yes the same roots replaced the bucket twice , the compost every 2 or 3 years
                          The knack is to harveat when tall enough which stops them going to seed
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                          Got some today

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                          • #14
                            Worth a try as I just can’t seem to grow scallions at all. This year I have close planted some spare onion sets in a pot On the windowsill and will cut and come again.
                            I shall use the money I save for a holiday in the Seychelles.

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                            • #15
                              Sounds like a good tip - like most everything else I grow I have good years and bad with Spring Onions. Will give this a go.

                              I tried growing Welsh (bunching) onions (once)
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