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["Rob Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> I planted out my homegrown slips hand width apart
> in all directions to allow for weeding.  Weeks passed and I kept them 
> weeded
> but they grew not a wit.  Then one day they just took off, grew massive 
> tops,
> and made a whole crop of softball sized onions.
>
> Then next year it was the same only I didn't waste their time in the
> greenhouse flats after they halted their growth, the went direclty into 
> the garden.
> This year I'm buying no slips, few sets, and I've got a dozen flats of 
> them in
> the greenhouse as we speak.

I planted onion seed this year. Planted in a flat and it has been up for a 
couple of weeks now. I got some day neutral onion seeds, because, I'm a 
little confused about long and short day varieties and southern Virginia. 
Seems I'm on the line.

Anyway, what should I expect then with these? Are they going to stay real 
thin "slips"? I won't be planting out until maybe the end of March or 
beginning of April. I'd heard to keep the leaves trimmed to about 3 inches?

Rob