How to grow them
Sow thinly in short rows, 1cm deep. There is no need to thin. A hardy variety sown in August and September stands the winter for pulling in spring.
Onion family
Spring onions
A pinch of seed every few weeks keeps you in salad onions all summer.
- Buy as
- Seed
- Space
- 2cm between plants, 15cm between rows
- Position
- Sun or light shade
- Rotation
- Roots and onions
- Difficulty
- Easy
The year
Sow outdoors
Harvest
When to pick
Pull when they are as thick as a pencil, about eight weeks from sowing.
What goes wrong
Problems, and what to do
Onion fly and white rot
Rotate with the other onions.
Good neighbours: Carrots, Lettuces.
Same family
More from onion family
OnionsPush small bulbs into the soil in spring and they do the rest.
ShallotsPlant one, lift a cluster of eight. Milder than onions, and they keep longer.
GarlicIt needs a cold spell to form a bulb, so it goes in when everything else is coming out.
LeeksThey take over the bed when the early potatoes come out, and stand all winter.