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shop bought spring onions

marksman065marksman065 Posts: 51
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hi,fellow gardeners,you know the spring onions you get from the shops can you plant them 

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,617

    no.

  • iceice Posts: 332
    I've successfully replanted a used one. Bought and used from supermarket but left a cm above root. Left in water for a few days and it resprouted. Its now in the garden looking more spring onion like
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    But a spring onion is a spring onion - what do you think it will grow into image


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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    Spring onions are so easy to grow from seed and thus give a choice of colour and strength of flavour that I don't see the point of trying to grow the shop bought ones.   I am going to try some red spring onions this year as a short term crop between other, slower crops while tehre's space and then in troughs or window boxes.

    I've found this blog which is full of useful info on growing spring onions - http://themicrogardener.com/guide-to-growing-spring-onions/

     

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • marksman065marksman065 Posts: 51

    i mean as onion sets

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    No, wrong plantimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    I should imagine proper onion sets form a garden shop or stall are cheaper per item than spring onions sold in grocers and supermarkets and they are primed to grow whereas spring onions have been harvested, had their roots and tops trimmed, been sorted, packed and chilled and bunched.   All traumatic stuff they will have difficulty overcoming.  

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • SwissSueSwissSue Posts: 1,447

    Thank you for that link, obelixx! I'm going to try spring onions for the first time this year, so lots of good info there to help me along.image

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