spring/bunching onions

Antonius · « **on:** July 02, 2010, 17:09 »

Look at these pityful bunching onions. I cant for the life of me grow anything like decent bunching or spring onions. Is there a tried and trusted feed or soil preparation method? Thanks

Salmo · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2010, 17:16 »

They look OK to me. Just keep on watering them and wait a little longer. Start pulling some when they are quite small and then they will not get too big before you finish them.

Any liquid fee will boost them but personally I do not like to put fertilizer on any crop near to harvest that I am going to eat.

Antonius · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2010, 17:22 »

ok,thanks Salmo,would still like to bulk them up a little. I dont know,maybe I'm asking too much.

DD. · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2010, 17:23 »

There's a few on this forum would be very happy with onions like that! Don't know what you're worrying about!

compostqueen · « **Reply #4 on:** July 02, 2010, 18:11 »

I think he was just fishing for compliments

They look fine hunnions

purplebean · « **Reply #5 on:** July 02, 2010, 18:18 »

Quote from: DD. on July 02, 2010, 17:23

There's a few on this forum would be very happy with onions like that! Don't know what you're worrying about!

me for one,I have never managed to get a spring onion that big

m1ckz · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2010, 19:05 »

look great to mine lol, well done

sloworm · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2010, 19:17 »

Much better than mine too, I need a magnifying glass to find them

Dan78 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2010, 23:06 »

yep doing much better than mine too!! not fair lol

Loubs · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2010, 23:14 »

They look really good. Pick the bigger ones, and the smaller ones will grow on.

You're growing them as individual plants. Is it that you were expecting them to multiply and grow like shallots? (what I mean is , when you plant one shallot set, and you get a dozen shallots growing together?).

I don't think spring onions grow like that. I sow mine as a pinch of seeds in a pot, then as they grow, plant them out as a group/bunch.

Is that what you mean?

sclarke624 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 03, 2010, 00:33 »

Those springo's are doing just fine. Some varieties don't bulb as much as say White Lisbon. I grew some once "Ramrod" and they didn't bulb much.

I have some winter ones I did last Early September and they have only just started ging to seed the last three weeks. So don't forget to keep doing some or I should say successional sowing but thats too much of a mouthful.

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