Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: dustcartkev on October 29, 2014, 16:41
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hi everyone could anyone tell me if it is too late to put my onions in, cheers all ? :mellow:
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I only got mine in the post sent to me last week, so hope not!! :)
I'm planning on putting mine in this weekend.
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yah same as that mine come on monday, so hope its still ok to plant :mellow:
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I put mine in Sunday and covered with Hoops and debris netting to stop the birds pulling them out when they start to show above the soil
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I only put mine in Monday and Tuesday. It has been such a mild autumn and the soil is still warm, so I reckon it will be fine. You don't want them too far advanced before the winter sets in, so late planting could work to your advantage :)
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put mine in a week ago there now shooting so i guess its ok
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DO NOT press them into the ground (even the right way up)! This compresses the soil, far better to dig a hole so the roots don't have to struggle.
Cheers, Tony.
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thank you everyone, will get them in tomorrow, :)
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mine have been in a week and have rooted already :D
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onions in today, hip hip hooooray. now grow you little oooooops better not say that. :ohmy:
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onions in today, hip hip hooooray. now grow you little oooooops better not say that. :ohmy:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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OK so they are in so when will they be ready to harvest?
The back of my pack was not informative at all it says
Growing
Onions will benefit from an application of general fertiliser into the soil prior to planting. Plant as instructions. Check every few days, until growth commences and re-plant any sets that are disturbed by birds etc.
But there are no instructions :wacko: is it because they are SENSHYU YELLOW Onions and something got lost in translation?
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Ready at the end of June/beg July but you can use them green before that if you want to ;)
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Harvest anytime from late April through to July next year..... as Spring/green/full bulb onions as you feel the urge... that's their beauty. A fair 10 to 15% will probably go to seed anyway.
They don't store well, so don't bother to save the best to last, as it were. I treat them quite differently from onions planted at the normal time next year.. they serve a totally different purpose. With onions being such a "staple" cooking ingredient for many of us, any sort of onion is valuable come the Spring/early Summer. I plant quite a few as obviously many, but not all, get pulled well before full maturity, unlike the "traditional" onions that get left in the ground late for their foliage to droop etc.
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Thanks for the info, I have covered with debris netting to stop the birds from pulling out, but apart from blue pallets of death, what else if anything do you have to do over the winter? I was thinking of putting fleece around the bottom of the enclosure?
Half the bed is overwintering spring onions and the other half is the Onion sets,
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After the long bitter cold winters about 3 years ago, I half expected the autumn planted onions to be dead as the ground was frozen for several weeks (and some sets were only just planted before the snow arrived) ... to my surprise, they were all fine. So I wouldn't bother with fleece to be honest.
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I don't do very much to my autumn planted sets over winter at all. No ned to cover and no need for the pellets either. I guess I just keep them weed free as possible and BFB a few times during the growing period.