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iv got a new allotment can i transplant onions and garlic




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Probably not because when you lift then you are going to break the contact between the roots and the soil. This will not be re=established and the onions/garlic will stop growing.

25 Mar, 2010

 

Short answer 'no'

25 Mar, 2010

Sid
Sid
 

When you say 'transplant' to you actually mean 'plant' as in, can I now plant onions and garlic? If so, then Yes, you can plant onions now, either as sets (little one-year old onions) for this year or as seeds for onions next year. Garlic is another kettle of fish tho - you have to plant garlic about early winter time as it needs to have a period of cold in order to form a bulb.

25 Mar, 2010

 

To grow onions for show we transplanted the seedlings in March from a large pot to the prepared bed. Remove the seedlings from the pot without breaking the roots. Put a long board across your plot, use the edge as a line, have a long trowel and put the roots in straight down. The onions planted on pig manure produced bulbs 19" round and weighed 6 and a quarter pounds. The best onions I grow now are sown in March thinly in drills and produce bulbs up to the size of an egg.

26 Mar, 2010

Sid
Sid
 

Flippin' eck Dr B! That's onehellov an onion!

27 Mar, 2010

 

You ready to eat it Sid... I'm not!!!

27 Mar, 2010

Sid
Sid
 

They'd be able to smell my breath in China! lol

27 Mar, 2010

 

lol

28 Mar, 2010

How do I say thanks?

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