[Enfield Glen]

This year I started sowing spring onions at home in 4 inch pots and planting them out when they where "straw" size. I have to say its been a tremendous success and am now coming to the end of those sown this way. They are now finger thickness and very tasty.

I will doing more this way over the early months as this certainly seem to work well.

[Yorkie]

Congratulations! I have never ever had any success with spring onions 

[Dev]

Congratulations on your success. I subscribe to Charles Dowding's recommended method and find it works well. Sow 8 to 10 seeds in each module and when they are big enough plant out the whole module (or in the greenhouse to over winter) and then lift the whole lot or twist out the biggest when they are the right size. We use quite a lot over a year for salads and stir fries so I sow a batch every 5 to 6 weeks. Suits me sir!

[sunshineband]

Well done to Enfield Glen for finding  a method that works for you. Spring Onions are so tiny & skinny when they first come up they are easily swamped in the open ground
I have module-sown veggies for many year and several seeds in one compartment does work well, and the  whole block can be planted out as a chunk all together once the roots have grown sufficiently to bind it. As Dev said, they can be lifted as a bunch when required
Nothing like that feeling of success when you have been able to grow something previously afailure for you, is there?

[Goosegirl]

Last year I sowed mine outside and had a miserable germination. This year I treat them like leeks and sowed them in pots then planted them out individually and it's working!

[sunshineband]

Last year I sowed mine outside and had a miserable germination. This year I treat them like leeks and sowed them in pots then planted them out individually and it's working!

Good! They are such a lovely fresh taste it always seems a shame when people have little success with them somehow