[Zippy]

I sowed a line of Spring Onions (White Lisbon) - oh blimey - months ago (May, I think) and although they are still green and not yellowing or sick looking at all, they have never grown any bigger than when they first came up. Like little green needles.

Its August now and I had hoped to have had them all in my summer salads by now.

Not enough water? sunshine?

[pushrod]

I don't know but mine are always the same.The seed packets alway seem incredibly optimistic about the time from germination to picking.

[Harry Flashman VC]

I've left some for nearly a year and the lisbons have grown into white onions.

[Paul Plots]

I've tried salad / spring onions for the first time this year (as my daughter has taken to them and they cost a bomb in Tescthing...

Mine have romped away - in fact I have had to make sure I pull them to prevent them getting too large to be "spring" onions. 

I started all of mine off in paper pots or 5" plastic pots. I didn't fancy the fuss of weeding newly germinated onion seedlings on the plot so stuck the seed in at home where I could keep a careful eye on them.

Once they had reached the "thick grass" stage I planted them out on the plot in a row or in clumps without disturbing the roots at all. Successive sowings of seed at home have kept us going all through the late spring and summer so far.

Also grew some red ones which did equally well - all of them watered when it was dry.