[heygrow]

I've sown radish, pak choi, salad leaves and spring onions in a veg trough and all have come up except the spring onions! There may be a small showing of one shoot, but can't tell for sure. Are they late germinators? (is that a word?  ).

What is it about spring onions that I find hard to grow? I'm sure I read on a recent post someone else struggled with them. I thought they were child's play to grow!

Anyone else have problems with 'em? 

[mumofstig]

Days to germination - 7 for lettuce and pak choi ........................... 21 for spring onions 

[seaside]

I can grow onions and leeks until they come out of my ears, no problem. Can I grow any decent spring onions ? No, and I never will now, as I just don't bother anymore. If I want spring onions, invariably for a salad, I pull up green onions before time, or even young leeks.

[Flowertot]

I sowed spring onion seeds 6 weeks ago and they still look like thin blades of grass.  I don't know whether they normally take a long time to start thickening or whether I am doing something wrong but they don't seem to be a "quick and easy crop" as most websites say (at least for me)...

[heygrow]

well if its 21 days for germination, I'm being a bit impatient as I sowed them 2 weeks ago.
However that was not a shoot as I thought. Not a thing showing yet!

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

I never get passed the blades of grass stage.

They just keel over after a month and die.

Any tips?

[DD.]

Do them in modules, seed tray insert, 20 cells to a half tray.

Pinch of seed in each, germinate somewhere warmish, then move outside.

When about 3" high plant in final postion, still in clumps, no need to thin. Keep sucessions going.

Germination is better and faster using this method.

[wynfra]

hi there, well for the very first time.....  I HAVE SPRING ONIONS GROWING dont know if this might help. I have sown them between my onion rows and lo and behold they are coming up. I nearly hoed them out, thinking they were grass :blink: But no!! spring onions!! This is the first time in 5yrs I HAVE SOME COMING ON. GOOD LUCK AND DONT GIVE UP!!!!!

[Annen]

I've never been able to grow them successfully before this year, when I sowed them in a seed tray.  They've all come up and are looking great. 
Thanks DD for what to do next.    I didn't use a module insert so I will just transplant them in clumps rather than trying to separate them all.

[DD.]

Planting in clumps will be fine, saves a lot of messing about, you cne then just pull up a clump at a time.

wynfra - I wouldn't not have thought sowing between rows of onions a good idea, unless the rows are wide spaced. How are you going to get your hoe down between your main crop of onions? Spring onions are going to take a lot longer to mature than annual weeds!

[heygrow]

Thanks DD for your advice. I'm going to give that a go!

[samnorfolk]

I put my spiring onions into modules and think they are ready to be put into their final place..i was told to transplant each module and plant that out...how much pace between each module though?

[DD.]

I give them 8" - 9", but at least sufficient to get your hoe in between!