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> >I think I should have started my onions a lot earlier.  Next year, I'll 
> start both onions and leeks in January.  

For those nice pencil thick onion slips, you need to start the plants in late 
October or early November.   You can get feasible onions starting that plants 
from seed any time up to July (for fall onions anywhere from scallions to 
golfball sized).   Even if your oinion plants are hair thin in late March, 
plant 
them any way.  I've gotten 4" onions from seed grown slips that were no 
bigger 
than (uncooked) spaghetti in June.  Not always, maybe not even most of the 
time, but it does happen.

Besides a great big onion on a hamburger from time to time, I've grown 
unimpressed with huge onions.  Much more prone to spoilage and since most of 
our 
storage onions are dehydrated (tops and all most of the time), I really don't 
care how big they are.

James