Allotment Update: Planting Onions!

There's not a lot to do on the allotment at this time of year, onions and garlic are about the only things you can put in!

Oddly enough I've been planting onions during a spot of volunteering I do, over the last couple of weeks and thought 'bloody hell, I'd better do my own'.

I headed to the local garden center on Weds after my volunteering (during which I'd planted onions!) and picked up the very last packet of red onions available, last planting in November, and some garlic too, but I'll do that in December, more of a classic garlic time.

Thankfully, due to some good effort during October making the most of some sunny days I'd managed to get most of my allotment clear and ready for spring, so I was able to rock up yesterday and it only took 20 minutes to do some planting.

My intuition told me it was too wet and cold to get onions in now, but other plots had some in and good to go, so I went with it.

A quick rake over and I was good to go...

Onions!

I used a rake to get the rows level and a bamboo cane as a dibber - 4" apart 10" wide for the rows, roughly, just by eye...

With the tops just above the soil...

And a couple in pots

I had two left over, in case some don't take, more than likely!

Looking forward to a June harvest...

June is the month these should be ready, probably later in June, and I'll hopefully be enjoying some tasty red onions, perfect in salads but even better roasted, nom nom!