Spring Onion Gardeners Tips
Tips from Gardeners on Spring Onions (Allium Cepa)
Do you like a crisp spring onion. White Lisbon is a variety grown from seed that will grow quickly and produce some nice strongly flavoured salad onions.
If you can find a variety White Spanish try that for a milder flavour.
- Sow seed from early March if you can give them some protection. ( Thompson & Morgan sell various varities of Spring Onion and other vegetable seeds)
- Alternatively over winter an October sowing for onions from April.
- Try sowing direct into a grow bag. Warm the bag in the house for a couple of days or in a heated greenhouse.
- Pull young onions alternately to leave space for others to grow
- All early onions pulled this way can be used as salad onions
- Fertilise with a light sprinkling of sodium nitrate in wet weather to help them bulk up
- Spring onions grown from seed are possible throughout the year by sowing every 4 weeks from early spring to autumn.
- Keep the ground free from weeds. All onions dislike the competition from weeds and other plants.
Know your onions
Bunching Onions are a trendy name for Spring onions. Varieties include Ciboule, Performer and Ishikura.
Spring onions (Allium Cepa) are part of the Allium family that includes:
Garlic
Chives
LeeksPot Leeks & Blanching Leeks
Shallots and Pickling Onions
Welsh onions and Japanese Onions
Ornamental Alliums