[Growster...]

So what's the secret of growing springs?

I thought I'd cracked it last year, starting them off in modules, and planting them all out as blocks, but this year, although the seed is getting on a bit, I can't get anything like the germination as of last year!

Is it that they're in the GH, so should be outside now?

Answers on a Tesco receipt for two bunches please...

[rowlandwells]

we have sowed several varieties as I've already said on a previous reply [talking trials] all our spring onion seed was set in modules and there growing well if anything they need planting out but as its tad dry on our allotments so I'm holding back to see if we get any rain 

PS
I hope you enjoyed your Tesco spring onions 

[Yorkie]

I've got germination for the first time ever (sown 2-3 weeks ago in GH modules, so I'm no expert!

[hasbeans]

Spring onions usually do well for me.  I grow them in Tesco flower buckets, sowing Red Holland and long red Florence (not a bunching onion but they work) in early March and Winter white Lisbon in July.  Usually I just leave the buckets outside with a bit of fleece over them until they've germinated.  1/2 inch chicken wire cut to the size of the bucket makes a good grid for the seed.

[Growster...]

Thanks for these...

I guess that it must be the age of the seed, as just checking Peter Seabrook's chart in The Complete Vegetable Gardener (The Bible here), he says up to a couple of years, and some of my old packets are out of date!

Hey-Ho, it's a new packet and hang the expenditure - you can't take it with you :0~

[Russell Atterbury]

Growster, hang the expenditure - you can't take it with you.....love it.

[rowlandwells]

buying new seed Growster what ever next  that's your pocket money gone for another month

[Growster...]

We used to have a fabulous ironmongers here in the village; they sold everything from a torch battery to an Atco mower, and we just loved the place!

The trouble was, I sometimes went in to buy just one a packet of seeds, and after half an hour with my friend there, I'd come out with eight assorted packets of seeds, a box of infra-red light bulbs, three tins of paint and a wheelbarrow!

I suspect the same will happen this morning when I venture forth to our favourite independent garden centre...

[steven c]

like going to Aldi for milk and come out with an arc welder and waders.

[rowlandwells]

 yep I bought an arc welder from Aldi Steve several years ago and it still going strong I love to visit to Aldi shopping always come out with something other than food shopping 

[Growster...]

Yup, it happened!

All I wanted was a packet of spring onion seeds, but I also 'had' to buy a special box of wild flower seeds with matching compost and off-the-shoulder dressing, for the wild part of our garden!

To be fair, we were wondering about no-May-mowing, to retain wild flowers, and wanted to replenish some 'armpits' in the garden where we don't really do anything!

Apparently, no-May-mowing isn't all it's cracked up to be, as you leave the insects to colonise the flowers for a month, they get established in their new homes, then get zapped on the first of June!

Hmmm...