Spring onions

I’ve been attempting to grow spring onions for two or three years now and up till now every single time has been thwarted by blinking pigeons, whose favourite activity, other than hanging round in gangs and eating my strawberries appears to be pulling up my spring onions. So this time when I sowed some pots I kept them in my ‘green house’ (which isn’t much of a ‘green house’ anymore, as it’s plastic wrapping is so ripped, will need to replace it at some point). The idea being, if they were in my green house the pigeons would have trouble getting them and it seems to have worked.

I should however maybe have thinned them out a bit! I had been working on the assumption that I didn’t need to thin, as I would crop when needed and that would act as thinning them out, but the pots were very crowded and it’s taken them ages to get even this (not very) big, however they have reached a just about eatable size now, so I’m going to  eat thin as I go. And even though they’re still minuscule, wow, they pack a punch! Very oniony for such little things, I guess at least partly because I’m eating them when freshly harvested, spring onions in the shops were probably more flavoursome straight after they were pulled up.

I love spring onions, they can be used in so many different things (today’s was sprinkled on cheese on toast) but don’t use them as much as I would like because they go off so quickly if you buy them from the supermarket. I have three pots of spring onions on the go at the moment, two planted in April and one last month, hopefully with a few more occasional sowings and if I bring them in maybe if it gets too cold, I’ll have a permanent ready supply of them!