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About my spring onions

kellybishell476kellybishell476 Posts: 3
in Fruit & veg
Hi my spring onions are not growing to well as they are not going fat at the Bottom
From Kelly x x 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hi @kellybishell476 and welcome to the forum 😊 

    Some varieties of spring onions are the same thickness all the way up and down, and some swell at the bottom (they differ ... a bit like people 😬). 

    If you think yours are doing something wrong can you show us a picture please? Click on the little picture frame icon 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • ColinAColinA Posts: 392
    Same here growing but ever so slowly
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Yeah.. I've never had any luck growing them from seed.. by fall they still look like grass.  Instead I buy a bunch from the grocery store.. chop off the tops an inch above the white area and use them.. pop the bottom root area in a glass of water for a few days, then plant that out.  Usually the plant tries to flower, so remove that part when you see the bud.. but the entire plant regrows and a bundle of spring onion bottoms planted fills all our needs for the entire summer.  I just cut off leaves back to the base where they attach as needed.  It's not too late to try it, put some in between the ones in your pot as pictured.  
    Utah, USA.
  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    Spring onions do take a long time to fatten up. I planted some in Feb or Mar and they are about half the thickness of shop bought ones. I just keep trimming the top green bits and eat them. Trimming them stops them flopping over.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The most success I've had with spring onions was when I grew them in a window box and fed, watered and de-slugged.  Never did well sown in the soil or sown in plugs and planted out.   This garden is a lot hotter and drier and plagued by voracious snails so I'll be trying the window box trick again.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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    Plato
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