[New shoot]

If you keep yourself self sufficient in onions almost year round, that will be a great achievement    

I know people say 'oh its cheap enough to buy them' and I do the same myself with main crop spuds as I don't have room to grow enough, but its surprising how much money you save, growing the old faithfuls 

I totted up the amount I spent on garlic and chillies a few years back and it soon converted me into growing my own 

[mumofstig]

You'd have to have a lot of room to grow enough to last a year   

(and not have white rot on your plot  )

[cadalot]

Hi Mum

I know what you mean, I love spring onions and we buy a couple of bunches a week and I have been growing them but they have been getting hit by white rot. I'm moving them every year and now that I'm hooked on growing from seed I'm hoping that I will be able to move production over to my new plot which is on another allotment and that it will not have the white rot problem.

The alternative I was considering was growing in flower buckets using a mixture of coco peat and compost.

[Eblana]

You'd have to have a lot of room to grow enough to last a year   

(and not have white rot on your plot  )

I have just taken on a second full plot so I have plenty of room and no white rot (touch wood). 

I space them 10 cm apart which means that I get 48 per row in my 4.8 mtr long bed and I get 6 rows as the beds are 1.2 Mtrs wide.  The balance are in the PT and will be harvested in time for the tomatoes going in.