[sunshineband]

At the weekend I carefully planted out my seed grown onions -- never grown onions from seed before, 'cept spring onions

Prepared the bed, planted them with due reverence, and now, now they are getting battered by massive rainfall every day 

I just hope they can swim 

[jazzbyrd]

Look on the brightside .......this means that the hose pipe ban will be lifted in November instead of December 

[shoozie]

At the weekend I carefully planted out my seed grown onions -- never grown onions from seed before, 'cept spring onions

Prepared the bed, planted them with due reverence, and now, now they are getting battered by massive rainfall every day 

I just hope they can swim 

Same here - we've had hailstones and a couple of frosty nights since they went in - I confess they've got a cheap cloche over them til the mad weather changes - the rest (yes, all the seeds lived ) are still in the cold frame, but they desperately need out of their pots 

[ratherangelic]

I know it's sad.....Had my plot under a week and rain has stopped everything.  Really sad as have onions that need to get out of their pots into the ground but rain has prevented the bed being prepared for them and the weatherman thinks it's going to be like this for a while....fingers crossed can get to the plot soon.

[New shoot]

Mine are going out today Sunny    The red ones you saw when you came round, that were a bit further ahead.  May find a cloche for them for a week or 2  

[sunshineband]

Mine are going out today Sunny    The red ones you saw when you came round, that were a bit further ahead.  May find a cloche for them for a week or 2  

I'm going downlater, hoping to see healthy onions ----- or will they look like flat green octopods   

[tonel]

I have some seed grown onions in trays at home - they took a while to germinate but they're up now. But I'm not sure when I should plant them out and how big they should be when this happens - the ones I have still seem pretty small (shoots are maybe a couple of mm thick) - do they need to go out asap or can I leave them a bit longer?

[mumofstig]

I'm leaving mine to grow a bit bigger, before they have to face the weather 

[Brassica Blaz]

At the weekend I carefully planted out my seed grown onions -- never grown onions from seed before, 'cept spring onions

Prepared the bed, planted them with due reverence, and now, now they are getting battered by massive rainfall every day 

I just hope they can swim 

i planted my out yesterday. sown mid january there half the thickness of a pencil with a really good root structure,trimmed them down a bit first but it was hard work planting about 300 red & white onions(.now i know what it feels like to work in a paddy field! :lol):but i didnt water them in hoping for a shower or two.i,m more worried about the pigeons having a tug.

[sunshineband]

Mine are OK 

Some of the leaves are not standing up straight, but the new ones will, I am sure.

At least I didn't have to water them 

[sunshineband]

and now----- they look like real onion plants and drew an admiring comment (well I think it was) from one of the old stagers at the site

'You've done it proper this year then, them onions'

 

[mumofstig]

I better get a move on and plant mine out then 

 

[sunshineband]

Only if they are hardened off   

[potatogrower]

mine are still in trays they're about 3 or 4 inches tall.

 they were in some poor compost made of twigs and bits and i don't think it helped them grow properly. took them all out and struggled to put them individually back into the tray in new finer compost. only solution i had was group them together in packs of 6. so far they all look healthy but i'm not sure if grouping them together was good idea or not. any ideas?