{"id":22,"date":"2012-08-07T00:53:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T07:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2012-09-02T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T19:17:23","slug":"spring-onion-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/spring-onion-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Onion Gardeners Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Tips from Gardeners on Spring Onions\u00c2\u00a0 (Allium Cepa)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">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.<br \/>\nIf you can find a variety White Spanish try that for a milder flavour.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sow seed from early March if you can give them some protection.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.comhttp:\/\/search.thompson-morgan.com\/search?w=spring+onion\">\u00c2\u00a0<em> ( Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/em><\/a><em> sell various varities of Spring Onion and other vegetable seeds)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Alternatively over winter an October sowing for onions from April.<\/li>\n<li><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]-->Try sowing direct into a grow bag. Warm the bag in the house for a couple of days or in a heated greenhouse.<\/li>\n<li><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]-->Pull young onions alternately to leave space for others to grow<\/li>\n<li><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]-->All early onions pulled this way can be used as salad onions<\/li>\n<li><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]-->Fertilise with a light sprinkling of sodium nitrate in wet weather to help them bulk up<\/li>\n<li>Spring onions grown from seed are possible throughout the year\u00c2\u00a0 by sowing every 4 weeks from early spring to autumn.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the ground free from weeds. All onions dislike the competition from weeds and other plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Know your onions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bunching Onions are a trendy name for Spring onions. Varieties include Ciboule, Performer and Ishikura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Spring onions (Allium Cepa) are part of the Allium family that includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Garlic<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Chives<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">LeeksPot Leeks &amp; Blanching Leeks<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Shallots and Pickling Onions<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Welsh onions and Japanese Onions<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ornamental Alliums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips from Gardeners on Spring Onions\u00c2\u00a0 (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.\u00c2\u00a0 ( Thompson &amp; Morgan sell various varities of Spring Onion and other vegetable seeds) Alternatively over winter an October&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/spring-onion-tips\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}