how does one plant an onion???

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omg i bought a huge bag of onions about 2 weeks ago. and i looked inside the cupboard last night and WOAH the final one left has grown into some kind of semi plant! it looks like this now (to scale)!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/onion.jpg

i'm tempted to grow it into an onion plant or something... how should i do it?? does it grow in soil? how big does it become? does it grown tall or wide (like potatoes where it goes everywhere? i.e. i'd need a patch rather than just a pot) have i left it too late? is it going to die soon anyway (it's still green).

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

does it grow in soil?

yes

how big does it become?

as big as yr fist.

does it grown tall or wide

tall

have i left it too late?

is it going to die soon anyway

not if you plant it now.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

nice picture by the way. Are you some kind of botanist?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't do it ken, there'll be tears, I'm warning you

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I would plant it in a pot of soil and put it in a dark place, like you do with bulbs. I don't have any experience with onions to speak of, though. Maybe you could put Miracle-Gro on it.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Onions need to overwinter, don't they? In which case I'd say plant it now. In the ground, not a pot, otherwise the frost will get it.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you lovely RHS

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I once moved out of a flat and discovered, while packing up, one potato and one onion fallen through the back of a fitted cupboard. Both had sprouted fantastic, squirmy long tendrils which intertwined with each other and the bits of carpentry. I think the onion's were about 4 foot long. God knows how long they'd been down there.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i see... maybe i should plant it in the front garden (and hope the lawnmowing lady doesn't pwn it). i shall read through that website and update! thanks!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That reminds me! We ate our first tomato the other day! (I mean, the first one grown by us, not the first ever that would be stupid.) It was sooooo sweet and juicy mmm noone would ever think we lived in a basement with no sun. Still no chillies from the chilli plant though :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a milion chillis on our chilli plant! Loads and loads - I think we've fertilised it A LOT as it's also growing loads more leaves without really getting much bigger.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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