Spring onions 10 weeks

Spring onions - at 8 weeks

The spring onions are doing very nicely now, and are even resembling small spring onions.

Spring Onion Sentry plants - after 8 weeks

It still looks a while until I can eat them though.  I suppose I could pick some now, but it seems a waste after waiting this long to eat them before they really get to full size.

Spring onions (sentry) doing nicely

The final post for this week is a catch up on the Spring onion seedlings.  They are growing along nicely and starting to look like mini spring onions now.

Spring onion seedlings 7 weeks after planting

Looking more like spring onions now.

The spring onion plants are growing well and starting to fatten up a little and do look more like mini spring onions rather then the rubbish little grass like stalks that they resembled a couple of weeks ago.

Spring onions after 6 weeks

With any luck, in a couple of weeks (ok maybe optimistic)  could have lettuce, spring onion and radish all from the garden to make pretty much an entire side salad.

Starting to fatten up

So here they are 5 weeks after planting the seeds, and still some way off being big, fat, juicy accessories to a salad.

Spring onion sentry seedlings at 5 weeks

They do at least look like mini spring onions, which is encouraging, but I suspect this "quick growing" variety is a little bit of a fib

Spring onion sentry

I feel a little bit deflated by the spring onions so far.  I love spring onions, so when I saw a packet of spring onion sentry seeds (what does the sentry bit mean?) promising quick and easy growing spring onions with a reliable crop, I snapped them up.

Maybe it is my novice gardener abilities, or maybe I was expecting too much, but after a month, the spring onion seedlings still look really spindly, a bit like a long blade of grass.  Maybe they just grow quickly compared to other spring onion varieties, but I was expecting an early crop by now.

Spring onion sentry at 4 weeks

The photo makes the spring onion seedlings look a lot stronger than they really are.  They actually look quite spindly.  Oh well, plenty of time yet.