Planting onion sets for Spring!
It’s here again: Spring. Official!
Well, not quite official… but March 8th is good enough for me.
Spring means planting onion sets and potatoes. So I made a start on the onions today by planting four rows. I bury them about 5″ apart, and deep enough so that only the very tip of the sets are just showing. Any shallower and the birds pull them up, meaning you have to do the whole wretched procedure all over again.
Still haven’t done anything about my new allotment extension. Neighbours report that the soil is seething with live bramble roots and is a bugger to dig. Which is comforting.
Posted on 8th March 2009
Under: Alliums, Spring | 13 Comments »