Onions planted

You see here are the onion transplants ready for planting out, the leaves are nice and fat and the roots hold together well when removed from the cell. You can just see some of the tips of the leaves turning brown which is a sign that we need to plant these soon.


This is the first bed of onions Nicky planted, they are our own transplants, germinated in the growing room and grown on in the poly tunnel. All are planted by hand using a dibber. Each bed has about 2000 plants. We are planting through the maize mulch which was laid about a week ago to control weed growth.
You can just see on the soil between the beds we have sown clover seed (light dots on the soil surface) this will control weeds as it grows and will supply a green manure crop after the onions are harvested.