[upert]

i'm growing white lisbon but the germination rates are very poor. if i leave the ones inthat have developed will they grow by division next year?

[DD.]

No.

They get bigger & tough, run to seed & die.

Blunt - me?

[upert]

there's a guy on our site that has spring onions that he simply leaves in and they come up every year. i take it these are a different variety? would you know what they could be?

[DD.]

They'll be everlasting or "Welsh" onions.

Try & sponge some off him!

They certainly won't be white Lisbon.

[Harry Flashman VC]

Planted spring onions about October last year left them in now they've turned into quite large white onions.  lifted a couple for salads a couple of months back but they wern't very strong thats why I left them.  Will use them as normal onions

[PlymouthMaid]

I planted some White Lisbon at the end of March and unbelievably the ones which actually germinated are still not much more than blades of grass.  What is going on (or not going on) there?

[cathy81walking]

Oh thank goodness!

Its been my first attempt at spring onions this year and mine are no more than single blades of very skinny grass too 

Now I won't feel that it was something I did - and I'm off to google welsh onions to see what turns up 

[lisa80]

Our white lisbon is the same germination poor and still just blades of grass.A couple of old fellas on our site have grown some beauties tho somthing is amiss i think will have to interrogate oldies for thier secrets!!!!we tried twice and second time not a single one came up

[KT]

Oh im glad im not the only one with this problem, i too still have grass!!!! im leeks are suffering the same problem ... grrr

[Penfold]

I have a few (about 8 in the ground (the rest never made it).  The green above ground growth was really slow does look good now, but under the ground the onion has only grown a couple of centimetres.  I don't know how much is down to my inexperience and how much is the result of the heavy clay soil.


To be honest I'm amazed anything put on any bulk under ground.

[HLS]

Me too - I've given up on spring onions for this year.  Maybe it was the dry spell in Spring?

[lisa80]

have a little faith with your leeks k.t!!!!!! ours have had massive growth spurt in the last few weeks with all the sun then rain.

[tam]

I sowed mine (white Lisbon winter hardy) the beginning of November in seed trays and we've been eating them since the end of April. Still some left. They did go from green to spring onion all of a sudden though so I wouldn't give up on them.

[goose]

i sowed lisbon and a few other varieties of spring type onions back in march and im only just begining to harvest.  the ones at the lottie are doing a lot better than the ones in my veg patch at home, (perhaps they prefer to be neglected as the lottie hardly gets any water).  i think patience is the key, fill in any gaps that have not germinated with more seed, and forget about them. i dont thin out either and still have lovely thick onions.  one year i left them that long that they bulbed up and i pickled them...they were lovely

[mumofstig]

At the beginning of march i thought i had lost my row of spring onions, Holland Blood red, but a warm week with some rain and they came up, have been using some but they are beggining to make small red bulbs now, so the last few will probably be a jar of pickled onions