Reply To: Salad onions or spring onions and chives

[Karen]

Oh crap! haha! Just finished sowing a whole lot of spring onions! Backing to the drawing board. Will sow more on the next good leaf day.

I kinda deduced that chives were more suited for leaf days as I want the leafy bits, while I wasn’t too sure about spring onions because of the slightly white bulby part. Thanks again Charles for clarifying that.

I sowed 2 batches of chives in 9th Feb (root day) and 19th March (leaf day) .However, the chives that were sown in Feb, their tips started turning beige/light brown and was kinda dying off. I quickly planted them out last week just to try to salvage them. I am not too sure if I have overwatered them.

Will try Suella´s method too as I have heaps of onion sets leftover.

I have also heard about this Egyptian Walking Onion which is a perennial. Have ordered a plant just to see how it works.