I have tried repeatedly to grow early green onions like grandma did. She would plant the seeds along with the lettuce around st Patty’s day and by late May we would have plenty of both for her famous wilted lettuce salads. (Basically a hot bacon vinaigrette tossed like a Ceasar type salad)
Fot it the life of me I can’t figure out why I can’t get the onions to grow. *IF* I can get them to germinate, they just don’t grow to maturity. But the last 2 times I planted them they wouldn’t even germinate.
This is year they sprouted, bu after they reached about 6” tall and about the diameter of a coffee stirrer straw they aren’t getting any bigger. The lettuce 12”away is growing great! They just don’t get any bigger than perennial wild onion that grows in lawns; nothing like you buy in stores with the thin white bottom parts.
The only thing i can think of is maybe being nearest the mini barn to the east it’s not getting enough sun? It only gets direct sun from about noon on.
Ideas?
Fot it the life of me I can’t figure out why I can’t get the onions to grow. *IF* I can get them to germinate, they just don’t grow to maturity. But the last 2 times I planted them they wouldn’t even germinate.
This is year they sprouted, bu after they reached about 6” tall and about the diameter of a coffee stirrer straw they aren’t getting any bigger. The lettuce 12”away is growing great! They just don’t get any bigger than perennial wild onion that grows in lawns; nothing like you buy in stores with the thin white bottom parts.
The only thing i can think of is maybe being nearest the mini barn to the east it’s not getting enough sun? It only gets direct sun from about noon on.
Ideas?