[morbidia]

I bought one bag of onions on Saturday that were half price ( really cheap) is it too late to plant them now if we get them in this week, only on the packet it says plant between March and July but a friend of my daughters says its too late, if we can't plant them will they keep or not, I'm not too worried about planting them just to see what happens to be honest as they were less than £1 to buy

[Trillium]

It's actually a bit late now since the peak growth time for onions is in about a month but as you have them you might as well plant them since they will not keep until next year. Who knows, you might still get something useful out of them.

[DD.]

I have planted sets in May, but got very little in the way of return.

You may as well pop them in if you have space though, as they won't store for another year.

[potatogrower]

last year i got a bag for some sort of turbo variety (not sure of the full name) for 12p from Wilko's and planted them in June - admit that is late but by Oct few were a very good size others were small but usable. they were fed well with groworganic diluted tea and weather was very good too.

[morbidia]

Thanks I will chuck them in then and see what happens

[Rangerkris]

Put them in they might make a good salad onion at least still tasty just small.

[Christo]

Thanks I will chuck them in then and see what happens

2 years ago I planted some sets in late may and had quite good results.
Defo worth a go. 

[morbidia]

Cheers , I will be planting them at the weekend then

[Ivor Backache]

I have had such a poor germination of onions this year that I have resorted to planting sets. They went in about 10days ago and are sprouting. General feeling is that May is such a cold month that many  types of seedling are suffering.
One thing's for sure...they won't grow in the bag.

[catweazle]

if you have space plant them. i know its very late by dates the all important weather is still a month out at least

[morbidia]

Thanks ,we have a nice empty recently rebuilt raised bed so we are going  to plant them there tommorrow, the weather here is not May like at all so hopefully they will be confused and grow anyway
Thanks for the advice everyone

[AnneB]

I feel an experiment coming on.  Last year I bought some reduced Turbo onions from Wilkinson's and they did really well, but I that was in April.

I happened to be in Wilkinson's again today, and lo, they had a large bag of Sturon onion sets for 37 pence.

As my efforts at onions from seed this year has come to nought - I have managed to raise 2 very thin dodgy plants only, I have invested said 37 pence and will pop them in tomorrow.

Interested to see if anything comes of them, but at that price, worth a punt when the alternative is no onions at all apart from the shallots.

[parttimer]

One things for certain they will not grow in the bag!

What have you go to lose? 

[fatbelly]

Once they sprout give them a feed such as growmore to encourage the leaves to grow big which will feed the bulb.

I slap a circle of growmnore around each bulb late May & then water it in if needed this seems to help.

[morbidia]

Ok will do, we have chicken poop pellets mixed in with the soil