Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: freefolk on April 20, 2018, 19:28
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Evening All, just a quick one. I have some "Lisbon" spring onions I want to grow in containers. Got the spacing OK, not sure what depth container I need. Any suggestions please? Enjoy the sunshine! TVM.
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I would think 15cm would be fine, as long as you can water them frequently enough as they get bigger.
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Agree with pescador. Grew mine in 15cm deep plant troughs. Grew very well, in fact it was the only way I could grow them. They just wouldn't grow in the open ground.
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15cm it is then. They are young plants, about 10cm tall picked up from Homebase. 20 plants for £2, bargain!
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In case you want to grow more, it works well to sow a pinch of seed per small module (about 3cm sq) and plant them out as a clump as soon as the roots have bound the compost together, straight into a windowbox or something similar
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I'm growing several spring onion varieties as you said razed in modules I usually plant out in a raised beds but going to give growing them in tubs a try because they would be easy to pull save going down the allotments if we only want a few at a time ;)
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Always grow spring onions in fairly deep containers - have a concrete hard standing that is only fit to hold containers. Also do carrots in containers so that I can cover them against "the fly" easily. This is where your stumpy carrots are a good idea.