Onions grown from seed: Alisa Craig

Onions grown from seed: Alisa Craig

I thought it would be fun to do a monoblog on just one vegetable. As I have photos for every month I thought I would show you just how my onions developed from the day they were sown till the day I harvested them & later cleaned them up at home & put the weight on the last photo.

So here is the 1st photo of when I sowed them in a seedtray in the greenhouse on Gerry’s allotment:

Germination 3 weeks later:

About 5 weeks later I transplanted them into my own allotment, Plot 12A:

Here they are well established after about another 3 weeks:

About a month later – making good progress:

Some 6 weeks separate the photo above from this one:

Here’s the final photo of them in the ground – ripening nicely:

Here they are just having been harvested:

The final photo – after a good clean up:

As you can see I got almost 4kg of onions in 6 months from seed to harvest!

I also sowed 3 bags of onion sets but I’m not going to write about them here, suffice it to say we are now  swimming in onions!!!