Spring Onions from Seed to Harvest

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. You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:    / @charlesdowding1nodig   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 #springonions #growyourown #nodig #vegetablegarden #gardentips