Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Pretty Chick on May 13, 2010, 21:07
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Does anyone earth up spring onions? :)
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No.
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dont want to hijack the thread and put a relevent question as well.
with the winter onions stalks looking beautiful can we chop couple of leaves (atmost one from a plant) to make salads?
will it affect the quality of the bulb?
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One leaf per plant shouldn't take too much out of making the bulb swell prakash_mib.
Thanks DD. and does anyone else earth up spring onions?????
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pulled some spring onions and radishes tonight while i was at the lottie watering my greenhouse stuff . If i sow some spring onions this weekend when do you think they will be ready anyone please ? :(
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Depends on variety and conditions but probably about 10-12 weeks I'd imagine.
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why would you earth up spring onions ??
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I sow them in trays like leeks, no earthing up. The bulbs sit about half in half out of the soil.
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why would you earth up spring onions ??
That's actually what I thought when I saw the question. I thought I'd just give a simple answer though!
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I can see your thinking to make leeks longer and whiter they go in deep and don't people earth up leeks. Would it do the same with spring onions give you a nice longer white onion stalk
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I must admit to have never hearing of anyone earthing up spring onions. Unlike leeks, you get a decent white bit above the ground anyway and you'd have to earth up a long way to increase the length of this white bit.
Is there anything wrong with a bit of greenery on a spring onion, rather than just plain boring white?
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Is there anything wrong with a bit of greenery on a spring onion, rather than just plain boring white?
Not at all.
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Never earthed up, but then I have never grown them so dont see why I need to :blink: I will go with DD's last reply if that helps any
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I'm growing spring onions for the first time for many years and the way they are performing at the moment if I earthed them up they would completely disappear! :( ;)
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I'm growing spring onions for the first time for many years and the way they are performing at the moment if I earthed them up they would completely disappear! :( ;)
mine are a bit pathetic looking as well, they germinated when we had the warm spell in April and I think they have regretted it ever since :unsure:
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I'm growing spring onions for the first time for many years and the way they are performing at the moment if I earthed them up they would completely disappear! :( ;)
mine are a bit pathetic looking as well, they germinated when we had the warm spell in April and I think they have regretted it ever since :unsure:
mine 3!
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Mine are about 6 inches long.
It's a man thing :)
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Mine are about 6 inches long.
It's a man thing :)
You mean they are really 3 inches as well ::) ? :D
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Thanks for all the replies, I guess I don't need to earth up spring onions :)
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i thought mine had started to grow.. although i think its mainly weeds lol :nowink:
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What is the secret to growing a decent crop of spring onions? I've tried different varieties at different sowing times, but never had a good crop. I did find two impressive examples when I was digging their row over in March ???
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I think you need to start them either in the autumn (winter hardy white Lisbon) for eating in early summer, or very early under cover for eating later, as i find they need quite a while to grow to an eatable size :(