Growing Onions 2009

[Tania]

I decided to have green onions in the garden. I just put them in the garden after i mixed the soil with chicken manure.

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/5470/ceapab.jpg
i tried to have a straight row:
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/9004/ceaparand2.jpg

[Riz]

hi tania..

you are going to have lots of onions huh !!! :)

they seem really close together.. !!!?

i will join you on this thread as i germinated some onion seeds "spanish yellow"

i have around 8 seedlings and i will sow them in the veg patch later on :)

[Tania]

I hope to cover entirely the consumption of green onion of family.Between bulbs are around 2 cm because i will pick them out soon how they will have 3-4 pairs of leaves.
Your onion are tall :GreenThumbs:

[farah]

Will they be ready to cook then or are you removing them then to replant somewhere else?

[Tania]

When they look like this:
http://www.pofta-mare.ro/images/retete_paste_miel_placinta_ceapa.jpg
can be used in salads, sandwiches...in other recipes. In their place will come the beans

[~Obsidian~]

OH! SPRING onions! :D I was wondering what a green onion was!

[Riz]

so you only eat the stem of the spring onion huh !?

[Tania]

OH! SPRING onions! :D
lol :p Could you now change the thread title please :o

so you only eat the stem of the spring onion huh !? Yes :) its very good and give an extra taste to the sandwich

[~Obsidian~]

Riz - I thought you could eat the whole thing :confused: (I don't like the leaves but people do eat them!)

Tania - both names are fine :p I just didn't know what a green onion was! It goes by the names 'spring onion', 'green onion', 'salad onion' and 'scallion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scallion)'.

[Tania]

Scallion - sounds so strange.
I will eat the whole onion, like its showed in the picture, including the white thing.

[~Obsidian~]

I'd have thought it'd be a case of 'including the green thing', isn't it the norm to eat the bulb? Like with onions. And the leaves are the extra part?

[Foz]

lol i also wondered what green onions were!

ive got some seeds...going to start them off soon inshAllah

[Tania]

Obsidian what do you say about changing the thread title in something more general, like 'onions 2009' :) ?

[~Obsidian~]

Good idea- people just growing normal onions can post in here too then - Done :sunny:

[Riz]

some of my onion seedlings that i started from seed

[Tania]

You could eat them soon, except if you don't want to grow them for the bulb.

[pomegranate]

These are my germinated onions, i bought these as seeds from internet.
These onions look very bad, i dont know if they will survive.
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[pomegranate]

These onions below are from a asian shop. I bought them and germinated them. It looks good hopefully it will survive!!:)
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[Tania]

Its a good strategy to buy the same vegetables seeds from more producers. In this case it helped :)

[edibles]

i germinated a regular onion from the kitchen, is this a good idea, or am i just wasting my time?
i am thinking about seeds but am worried about space

[Tania]

Will grow quickly that green stem. The friend told me about that after i bought the small bulbs.

[Riz]

i germinated a regular onion from the kitchen, is this a good idea, or am i just wasting my time?
i am thinking about seeds but am worried about space

its not recommended that you plant an onion from the shop.. but try it let us know how you get on..

i have some onion seedlings outdoors, i started them indoors and now they look really bad and just flat on the floor, ill bring them indoors see if i can revive them....


you can grow the onion seeds like i am doing "spanish yellow"

[Tania]

Today i picked up the first 3 onions and are ok. Its such a great feeling to know what are you eating :)
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9840/im006751.jpg (http://img11.imageshack.us/my.php?image=im006751.jpg)

[Foz]

i planted my spring onions a few days ago! lets see if im successful!

[Tania]

You should be successful. I did nothing to them since i planted the bulbs and they are growing.

[Riz]

tania..

they look really good

good job :)

[Tania]

Thank you. I will let them to grow bigger :)

[rainbox]

My onions are growing!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3390/3518323304_a45209fc3f.jpg?v=0

[pomegranate]

AND MY ONIONS ARE DYING!!:mad:

[Tania]

I can't explain that. They are easy to grow. May be they don't have enough water?

[Nife180]

AND MY ONIONS ARE DYING!!:mad:
Pull one out gently, or dig and examine it. It may be Root rot on the roots or the bulb.

[ze leetle elper]

My teeny spring onions

[Riz]

so how are every ones onions growing ?

[Tania]

We ate them. I have to wait 20 days until the seeds will germinate.

[pomegranate]

I PLANTED 20 SMALL RED ONIONS IN MARCH NOW THEY HAVE GROWN VERY BIG. I JUST HARVESTED THEM YESTERDAY AND COUNTED THEM AND I NOW HAVE 80 ONIONS THESE TASTE WONDERFUL. (TIP ALWAYS BREAK OFF THE FLOWERS, BECAUSE THIS MAKES THE ONION GROW BIG, IF YOU DONT BREAK THE FLOWERS YOU WILL GET VERY SMALL ONIONS!):tumbleweed:


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[Riz]

:natur011:well done. :GreenThumbs: :GreenThumbs::GreenThumbs:

not a bad little harvest you got....

[~Obsidian~]

We ate them. I have to wait 20 days until the seeds will germinate.
lol nice :D so you planted some more?
I PLANTED 20 SMALL RED ONIONS IN MARCH NOW THEY HAVE GROWN VERY BIG. I JUST HARVESTED THEM YESTERDAY AND COUNTED THEM AND I NOW HAVE 80 ONIONS THESE TASTE WONDERFUL. (TIP ALWAYS BREAK OFF THE FLOWERS, BECAUSE THIS MAKES THE ONION GROW BIG, IF YOU DONT BREAK THE FLOWERS YOU WILL GET VERY SMALL ONIONS!):tumbleweed:

80 onions?! Whoa, great! Someone pass pomegranate the chewing-gum :p

[Tania]

Oby this time i changed the strategy - i sow seeds , lot of seeds, i hope to see very soon some germination :)

[~Obsidian~]

And hopefully you will do! Maybe you should 'stagger the grow' as in, sow a few seeds every week so they mature at different times, so you don't end up eating them all at once! They'll last longer that way! :goodpost:

[Tania]

Next time i will do that. For this year i finished with the seeds and i will not sow more.

[Riz]

here is my onion plant i started from a seed in a pot :)

[Tania]

Your onion its growing nicely Riz :)-but what plant has so big leaves. I have 0 germination from the seeds - until now at least.

[Tania]

This year i decided to have onions again:
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/4403/im008014.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

It reminds me of those lines that the police use to test those that they suspect of being drunk :p

[Tania]

The onions are slowly growing:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7453/im008021.jpg

[felicity]

My onions are growing really well, Id given u on them but since they showed through, they are growing fast, Mashallah.

[Tania]

update on my onions:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5091/im008054.jpg (http://img441.imageshack.us/i/im008054.jpg/)

[Tania]

This year i have again onions:
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7199/capture20p.png
and from seeds i hope to harvest the rijnsburger onion (pic below):) :
http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/5051/capture26.png
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/792/onion.png