Re: Onions from seed - 2015

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 

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.