Tiny Onions & Parsnips

NewBoy2

Onions....I sowed them on may 11th and they are still only about 6 inches tall and the bulbs are not really showing

Parsnips....Sowed on the same day and still relatively small

Friends.........Is this normal please.

Dave Morgan

In a word no!

Dovefromabove

What's your soil like?  What else have you grown this year and how did it do?

NewBoy2

Thanks Dave thats what I thought

I think it may be have been not weeding eneough or not watereing every time

 

NewBoy2

Hi Dove

You were the first to help me when I was a NewBoy all those months ago

Onions.........Some were sown where potatoes had been and some where carots had  been

Parsnips......Where Runner beans had been

Dovefromabove

Hi Newboy - glad I could help then.  This time ............

NewBoy2 wrote (see)

............ I think it may be have been not weeding eneough or not watereing every time

 

I think you may have hit the nail on the head! 

NewBoy2

Thanks Dove

? Should I leave them or dig up and use and use the bed for an Autumn planting now

Dovefromabove

I think I'd use the onions for pickling or as salad onions.

How big are the parsnips?

NewBoy2

Will let you know after I have visited Lottie on saturday

fidgetbones

I think both should have been sown earlier. They both need a long growing season.

Dovefromabove

Mmmm, he sowed them early May and it was a very cold spring ....