Growing beetroot and spring onions together as multisown crops is a fantastic way to optimize your gardening space, improve yields, and create a vibrant mix of textures and flavors in your meals. Here’s how to do it:

Step 1: Preparing the Soil
Both beetroot and spring onions prefer well-drained, fertile soil. Clear the bed of weeds and dig in organic compost or well-rotted manure to enrich the ground. Aim for a fine tilth so the seeds can establish easily.

Step 2: Sowing the Seeds
Beetroot: These can be multisown by placing 3–4 seeds in a single station, spacing each cluster about 10cm (4 inches) apart in rows. Beetroot seeds are naturally a cluster of seeds, so even one seed might produce multiple seedlings.

Spring Onions: Similarly, multisow 6–10 spring onion seeds per station, spacing them around 5–10cm apart. Spring onions are happy growing closely together.

You can plant these crops in the same bed or container for efficient use of space. Sow seeds about 1–2cm deep and cover them lightly with soil.

Step 3: Watering and Care
Water the rows thoroughly after sowing and maintain consistent moisture, especially during dry spells. Beetroot will thrive with moderate watering, while spring onions require more regular watering to ensure the bulbs don’t dry out.

Keep an eye out for weeds, as they can compete with your crops for nutrients. A layer of mulch can help suppress weeds and retain moisture.

Step 4: Thinning and Feeding
As the seedlings grow, thin out the weaker ones to allow the strongest to flourish. For beetroot, you can harvest the thinned plants as baby beets, while spring onions don’t require thinning since they grow well in bunches.

Feed the crops with a general-purpose fertilizer every few weeks to encourage healthy growth.

Step 5: Harvesting
Beetroot: Harvest when the roots reach the size of a golf ball for tender and sweet beets or let them grow larger if desired. Pull them gently from the soil.

Spring Onions: They can be harvested once they reach your preferred size, typically after 8–12 weeks. Simply pull the entire bunch.

By multisowing these two crops, you’ll enjoy a productive and efficient use of your garden, alongside delicious results for your kitchen!
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21 Comments

  1. I have sown my white Lisbon in a 7-litre pot I keep this on our patio by June I will have spring onions, I have also multi-sown them in cells to put out in my no-dig beds. I was given a veg trug by my neighbours they are moving and didn't want it so I have sown a few beet and onions in that, it will be full of Tomatoes and herbs by May.

  2. Hi Ivan.
    Slightly off topic (by a country mile!!), but I think now is the right time to ask…
    Those fruit trees that you bought last spring from Tesco…
    So they are starting to bud now.
    I didn't pot them on, intending to do so now.

    What kind of feed/fertilizer should I use now (I do have and will be using Miracle Grow compost), and how should I tend them over the summer regards feeding.
    I'm hoping for a small crop this year.

    Many thanks.

  3. Ivan you make it look so easy.👌 It takes me blooming ages to fill those trays! 🙄 When I firm the compost I have to go back 2 or 3 times as it sinks so much. You get the job done so quickly and thr compost looks so tidy and just right.

  4. Already got 2 lots of White Lisbon on the go sown around 4 weeks apart. I think ill take you advice and sow more regularly. Great video as usual!

  5. Love this time of the year sowing seeds its like looking after your family watering them and feeding them watching them grow got Lettice spring onions and toms on the go indoors bit early for toms but see how they go

  6. Thanks Ivan, great reminder for me to sow some spring onions and beetroots, it's been a lovely day today and to get warmer this week. Can you believe that it's going to be 10c at night later in the week. Take care and all the best. Stevie

  7. Hi Ivan I always bottom feed but i put a layer of carboard on bottom so the seedlings not sitting in water just fill with water to hieght to cardboard

  8. Really enjoying your channel. So glad that I found you. Great advice for the home gardener. Will be planting my beets and spring onions tomorrow. Thank you from Vancouver BC Canada.

  9. This channel popped up a couple of days back. Kick started my incentive to try again. Have a south easterly spot along back wall giving 10hrs sun then dense shade. Raspberry canes left but the six pots i had just planted them in, were stolen. Last spring, my gooseberry and saskatoon completely desimated by large snails carrying a large brownish black shell on their backs. Minus the spuds(my back) i think i will follow something similar to your selection.

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