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This is to say thank-you for the tip ... and it was so long ago I can't remember who offered the advice....
The tip was that if you had onion sets left over then plant them very close together and use them for salad onions. Well I had about 40 red barons left over ... and did just that ! I have been enjoying fleshy green onions for stir fries or chopped in salads for weeks before the autumn planted red onions are ready ... so this is a THANK-YOU post rather than a question !

It might have been me as I'm always recommending this way of growing spring onions..my ground is clay and difficult to get the seeds to germinate, and the weeds arn't as much of a problem as the spring onions are ready before the weeds get a better hold.

You can also plant set NOW and August for spring onions into autumn and winter.

I found out about growing spring onions this way from a Canadian grower, they have snow until late March, so nothing gets in any earlier, but he can get 3 crops of spring onions this way before frosts and snow in October.