[DGBcdb]

Hi all
I have a mass of onion sets to go out but it’s so wet. We had a five hour rain storm overnight and everything  is sopping again so I’m afraid of rot. I also don’t want to go on the soil when it’s this wet.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
David

[Tracybutton]

Hi all
I have a mass of onion sets to go out but it’s so wet. We had a five hour rain storm overnight and everything  is sopping again so I’m afraid of rot. I also don’t want to go on the soil when it’s this wet.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
David

Try and give it another week. The weather is set to pick up next week.

A old timer told me that the last week in April is fine and better than them sitting in cold wet soil.

[rowlandwells]

Tracy your a real optimist but hopefully your rite god bless the weather men and ladies of cause I think sun is predicted for next week so of comes the jumper role up the shirt sleeves lets get stuck in

having said that I will probably get soaked by a rain storm down the allotments 

[jambop]

The best onions I have ever grown were planted out in mid May into very wet soil in desperation. They were seed grown and went on to produce amazing five and six inch onions which kept superbly! I am in France and the summer turned out to be brilliant after the terrible spring... so i hope for the same this year because this spring has been the same 

[Tracybutton]

Tracy your a real optimist but hopefully your rite god bless the weather men and ladies of cause I think sun is predicted for next week so of comes the jumper role up the shirt sleeves lets get stuck in

having said that I will probably get soaked by a rain storm down the allotments 

Don't worry, I'm right. Just you wait , you'll be in your shorts by next weekend ..not this weekend, next weekend.   

[Plot 1 Problems]

You could always pop them into disposable pots in MPC until the ground is a bit warmer and dryer.

[Ivor Backache]

I always start my onions off in seed trays. Take a tray of moist compost and just plant the sets into the surface about 2" apart. They will take root and sprout and when the ground is ready they can be transplanted. The roots can be 6" long so the birds will not be able to pull then out. Mine have been sprouting since I bought them say 3 weeks ago. I have just transplanted them because the soil is more favourable. I have done the same thing with shallots.

[Hampshire Hog]

Put my onions in last week and some are already starting to produce shoots.
Can’t do much about the wet ground but hopefully next week will be warmer and dry
Cheers HH

[Wiltshire Worms]

I start the onions sets off in trays of compost.I've covered the ground with cloches for a few days, plant 2 rows and move the cloches.hopefully get them all in tomorrow

[Notty1975]

I started mine in pots this year and they’ve been in the ground for just over a week now and going strong

[Tracybutton]

I started mine in pots this year and they’ve been in the ground for just over a week now and going strong

What a brilliant set up ! They are like little soldiers . 

I've just shown my husband this photo as he is sat having his breakfast surrounded by pots on every surface in the house hoping he'll give in to me saying a potting shed is what we need more than a Cruise round the Med ! 

[rowlandwells]

like most my onions and shallots are still sitting here in trays and I tend to agree with Tracy old timer better sitting in trays till  the end of April than cold wet soil

and its going to be shorts weather "A Tracy next weekend that should be worth seeing with my white legs 

[Notty1975]

What a brilliant set up ! They are like little soldiers . 

I've just shown my husband this photo as he is sat having his breakfast surrounded by pots on every surface in the house hoping he'll give in to me saying a potting shed is what we need more than a Cruise round the Med ! 
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I built it myself from scratch the bench the onions are on actually drop down so when the tomatoes are ready there’s plenty of room for them here’s a pic of the outside of it

[Eblana]

OMG I am sooo jealous.

[jambop]

I always grow mine from seed and looking back at my diary I find the best ever onions I grew did not go into the soil until the 12th of May ! That was back in 2012 when we had a wet spring and a really nice summer. So to be honest I am in no hurry whatsoever to get my onions in the ground. I have some really great seedlings which are just in a really big pots they will grow on and the be planted out with a dibber after removing the compost around the roots. I find this a far better option than growing them in modules and the planting up the module simply because the soil is much firmer around the roots and they seem to enjoy that.