Best time to plant spring onion in Rutherglen
Allium cepa
Also called Welsh onion, Japanese bunching onion, green onion, salad onion, bunching onion
Sow spring onion in Rutherglen in Mar to Nov.
Spring onion, or bunching onion, is a clump-forming perennial with tubular evergreen leaves up to 60 centimetres tall and white flower heads on top. Native to China and common in Asian cooking, it also goes by Welsh onion, a name that has nothing to do with Wales.
When to sow in Rutherglen
Rutherglen, VIC is in the arid zone. Its months for spring onion apply here without a frost adjustment.
Matches local guides.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Rutherglen
Frost usually arrives in Rutherglen around early April and finishes by early November. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as mid March or as late as mid December, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Sow directly in the bed
- Sowing depth
- 12mm
- Plant spacing
- 5cm
- Row spacing
- 8cm
- Height
- 30cm
- Germination
- About 10 days
- Time to harvest
- 70 days from sowing
- Frost
- Hardy, takes a light frost
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- perennial, usually grown as an annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.