Spring Onions from Seed to Harvest

Описание: Spring onions grow quickly and are ready to harvest in a short time. In this video, I show how I grow spring onions from seed to harvest.

Salad onions are varieties that have been bred to make a white stem with firm leaves, harvested before bulbing. The common name of ‘spring onion’ reveals how they are at their best in spring, before leaf diseases appear, and because they were often the only onion available in spring, between old and new crops.

Imagine delicious fresh green onion leaves and stems as early as spring equinox – a fine way to enliven early salads, soups and many other dishes. They are from sowing a salad variety, such as White Lisbon Winter Hardy, in late August. Spring-sown salad onions, sown February to April, will not be ready until May or June, depending how large you want them to grow. Left to grow into bulbs, they are still tasty raw or cooked.

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00:00 Introduction
00:31 Sowing seed, White Lisbon - timings
02:27 Multisowing and regular sowing
03:16 Allium leaf miner, protect plants with covers
03:47 Covering with compost after sowing - depth
04:32 14th March, 4 weeks later and ready to transplant
05:19 Growth comparison between two sowings made a week apart - surprising results
05:58 Results from homesaved seed
07:10 Outside for transplanting - alternative to hardening off
08:30 Spacing, and depth of planting
10:39 Pushing down when transplanting
11:02 Annual mulching with no dig
11:36 Watering, then covering with fleece
13:11 23rd May, six weeks later and ready to harvest
13:41 A harvested clump, with damage from allium leaf miner
15:54 Option of harvesting later

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