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Onions

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  Posted by Gem (U13964749) on Friday, 10th December 2010

  I am sorry to ask such a basic question but I just would like to check my onions are OK.
  
  They were planted in November, winter hardy ones. I popped down to the allotment yesterday as the snow has all but gone. One or two have little green shoots coming up, and one which I assume a bird had pulled up had some thin roots coming through. I pushed this one back in the ground and covered the area with more twiggs to try and stop this happening.
  
  Is this about right for this time of year ?.
  
  Gem

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  Posted by Kleftiwallah (U13700999) on Friday, 10th December 2010

  Spot on Gem. Your doing well.
  
  The big problem is birds pulling them up, as you have found. It is better to dig a small hole and re-positioning your onions should you find any more on the surface as pushing them down again compacts the soil below the onion. If you can find some mesh to protect the onions from the birds......
  
  Don't worry about being sorry for asking questions, just keep 'em coming. Cheers, Tony.

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  Posted by Mrs_Rebbecca (U14707779) on Tuesday, 14th December 2010

  Hm!! We are doing the same but in our greenhouse. We thought outside is too cold to grow anything!

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  Posted by whatalottie (U9072847) on Wednesday, 15th December 2010

  November is quite late for winter sets, so I can see why they've only got small green shoots. I think you might be as well to cover them, I would have thought hungry birds would have good tugs at anything that looks even half likely to be food, especially as it's going to be such a hard winter. But don't do as I did, lay a piece of fleece over them without enough support, the snow just weighed it down and squashed the new growth.
  
  Lottie

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  Posted by luckydavid (U14704974) on Wednesday, 29th December 2010

  I planted onions for the first time ever last year. I bought a 500g bag of sets & put half of them in small, square, black pots. You can get 15 or 16 of these in a standard seedtray. I then put a little bulb in each pot, leaving half of it exposed. They grew very well & I planted them out on the allotment at the end of April. Once in the soil they grew away very well & I then filled up all the pots with the rest of the sets & grew some more which went into the allotment at the end of May.
  
  The 1st sowing gave me bulbs as big as those you buy in the supermarket. The 2nd sowing ended up a lot smaller but I still was able to harvest them.
  
  This year I decided I would like to grow onions from seed, another new adventure, for me! I sowed them only 3 weeks ago & they germinated after less then 2 weeks. When I sowed them I thought the cold spell would be long over before they had germinated. But the cold spell has lasted almost 4 weeks. Today I took them down to the allotment with the idea of transplanting them into recycled Pansy trays. The compost I was planning on using was partially frozen! Breaking up the frozen lumps & putting the compost into the trays took quite some time & my hands & feet were so cold that I put off transplanting them for another day.
  

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