Posted by dido22 on March 10, 2010, 8:10 am
Hello,
I am growing onions from seed in the greenhouse. No problem.
The seed packet tells me that when I plant them out into the garden I should
plant them 4" apart in rows 12" apart.
Is it OK to plant them out in a 6" by 6" square pattern instead ?
Thanks
KK
Posted by Bob Hobden on March 10, 2010, 12:43 pm
"dido22" wrote
> I am growing onions from seed in the greenhouse. No problem.
> The seed packet tells me that when I plant them out into the garden I
> should plant them 4" apart in rows 12" apart.
> Is it OK to plant them out in a 6" by 6" square pattern instead ?
Not a problem except for weeding, you might find it difficult getting down
between the rows to weed. You will also have to hand weed when they have
expanded a bit as you won't get a hoe in between them. Onions hate weeds.
We plant our sets out at 9 inches apart and 12 between rows which means I
can still get the hoe between the plants when they have grown and it allows
the onions to grow as big as they want so we get different sized onions
instead of them all being the same size. It also stops cross contamination
with the White Rot fungus we have in our soil.
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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK
Posted by ®óñ© © ²°¹° on March 10, 2010, 1:18 pm
wrote:
>"dido22" wrote
>>
>> I am growing onions from seed in the greenhouse. No problem.
>>
>> The seed packet tells me that when I plant them out into the garden I
>> should plant them 4" apart in rows 12" apart.
>>
>> Is it OK to plant them out in a 6" by 6" square pattern instead ?
>>
>Not a problem except for weeding, you might find it difficult getting down
>between the rows to weed. You will also have to hand weed when they have
>expanded a bit as you won't get a hoe in between them. Onions hate weeds.
>We plant our sets out at 9 inches apart and 12 between rows which means I
>can still get the hoe between the plants when they have grown and it allows
>the onions to grow as big as they want so we get different sized onions
>instead of them all being the same size. It also stops cross contamination
>with the White Rot fungus we have in our soil.
A proper onion hoe might well prove useful as well
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Posted by David in Normandy on March 10, 2010, 4:40 pm
On 10/03/2010 19:18, ®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:
> A proper onion hoe might well prove useful as well
Does such a thing exist? I sometimes catch my onions with the Dutch hoe
- I don't think the onions like these little cuts and grazes. Difficult
to always "miss" them sometimes though when weeds are very close and I'm
getting tired after having just hoed several rows of them.
Perhaps accounts for the handful of rotten onions when I harvest them?
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Posted by Bob Hobden on March 10, 2010, 5:59 pm
"David in Normandy" wrote
®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:
>> A proper onion hoe might well prove useful as well
>>
> Does such a thing exist? I sometimes catch my onions with the Dutch hoe -
> I don't think the onions like these little cuts and grazes. Difficult to
> always "miss" them sometimes though when weeds are very close and I'm
> getting tired after having just hoed several rows of them.
> Perhaps accounts for the handful of rotten onions when I harvest them?
I use the smaller of the two Wolf Push Pull Weeders which has end guards so
it's much easier using it between plants, it's also self sharpening.
--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK
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> The seed packet tells me that when I plant them out into the garden I
> should plant them 4" apart in rows 12" apart.
> Is it OK to plant them out in a 6" by 6" square pattern instead ?