[Lottiegob]

Can anyone give tips on growing spring onions, only managed to produce about a dozen this year, so next will have another go. 

[zazen999]

Sow a pinch into modules.

Leave them until they are about 6 inches tall and a couple of mm wide.

Transplant module by module in to final positions [don't split them]

Harvest module by module

Sow once a month between december and about July and you should have spring onions all year.

[Lottiegob]

Thanks Zazen999 - didn't realise I could do this from  December, great tip, cheers!

[Salmo]

Sow "white lisbon - winter hardy" now and you will have spring onions in March/April.

[Paul Plots]

Do you think it would be of any benefit if I grew some in modules and then planted them out under a polythene cloche?

[tam]

I sowed two seed trays full last Nov and had spring onions all summer. I left them in a plastic greenhouse over winter.

[chriscross1966]

Do you think it would be of any benefit if I grew some in modules and then planted them out under a polythene cloche?

They'll only really need the cloche when the weather is really bad, keep the cloche off otherwise or you'll be fighting fungal diseases... Ishikura overwinters quite well...

chrisc

[Lottiegob]

Thanks all - a real boost - now where did I put that packet of seeds?

[azubah]

Sow a pinch into modules.

Leave them until they are about 6 inches tall and a couple of mm wide.

Transplant module by module in to final positions [don't split them]

Harvest module by module

Sow once a month between december and about July and you should have spring onions all year.

Thanks for that tip zazen. I have never had any success with spring onions, so I will try that.

[zazen999]

Module grown - pics at planting out and at harvest. These were originally sown into jiffy 7s and planted out with no root disturbance.
 
I also grow them in side pots outside the kitchen door for quick winter grabs  

[Paul Plots]

Do you think it would be of any benefit if I grew some in modules and then planted them out under a polythene cloche?

They'll only really need the cloche when the weather is really bad, keep the cloche off otherwise or you'll be fighting fungal diseases... Ishikura overwinters quite well...

chrisc

Thanks for the advice 

[upert]

grow welsh onions instead.

[tode]

Aren't Welsh onions called leeks ?

[upert]

no, there's a welsh onion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_onion

[tode]

It says they have no bulb ? ? ?   It's just a stem, then ?