A strong growing, tasty and vigorous choice that can be harvested between June and November.  These onions peel easily for adding to salads and stir-fry.  The foliage is an attractive dark colour – try sowing alternate rows with a paler leaf to enjoy the colour in your garden. A spring crop is also possible from an autumn sowing

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SPRING ONION EIFFEL ~ this British bred variety is one of the best with distinctive upright leaves and smooth white stems 100 seeds SOW: From March onwards in the open, no more than 1cm deep and sparingly to minimise thinning. By sowing every 3-4 weeks you can have a succession of salad onions. GROW: you will only need to grow with protection or undercover for October sowings which can give you the earliest spring onions in the following year. EAT: pull as needed. We often freeze spring onions after we cut them into strips to add to oriental dishes.

A lovely slim variety that does not bulb up into an onion or bolt.  It has very upright dark green leaves and a pale shank, smart and tasty.  Spring sowings take about 10 weeks but summer sowings (into July) are faster at 7-8 weeks.  You can sow later than this for an autumn crop.

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This is an AGM winning Japanese type that forms long white stalks (can reach over 30cm). No need for repeat sowing as Ishikura can be harvested from pencil thin to thumb thickness at any time between June and October. You can even cut leaves for salads whilst leaving the stem to grow on. Price for 100 seeds.

Lovely Lilia has rich red stems topped by fresh green leaves: a dramatic and tasty AGM winner  With Lillia you can enjoy 2 onions for the price of 1 – chose to grow as a spring onion or leave to bulb up or divide up your seeds and grow some of each.  Price for 100 seeds

SOW: thinly at about 1cm deep in rows to minimise thinning (use cloches for early sowings until mid-April).

FOR SPRING ONIONS: you can sow at intervals of about 3 weeks from February to July.  This will give you a succession of onions to pull after 10 weeks or so

FOR MAIN CROP BULBING ONIONS: sow from March to May in the open (allows time to bulb).  These will be ready from August

SPRING ONION REDDY ~ a delicious red skinned salad onion for spring sowing to give you both flavour and colour in your salads and cooking 100 seeds SOW: from March to May in the open (allows time to bulb). GROW: sow thinly at about 1cm deep in rows to minimise thinning. Sowing at intervals of about 3 weeks will give you a succession of onions to pull. For bulbing onions simply pull alternate plants to increase the spacing in between. EAT: pull as needed. We love these raw in our salads but we also freeze spring onions (that we have first cut into strips) to add to oriental dishes throughout the year. Bulbed onions can be used as picklers

Slender Star – grow like the professionals with this top commercial variety.  Do you want reliability, great flavour, slender onions with very little bulbing, sow & grow in clusters with harvest in about 12 weeks?  Slender Star will give you all of this.     

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SOW & GROW: from February to June EITHER in the open, seed depth 10-15mm deep in rows aiming at 2-4cm apart OR clump sow 4-5 seeds per module/pot on the surface & lightly cover with a sprinkle of vermiculite or compost. 

Clump sowing in a greenhouse or on a windowsill is particularly good for early spring onions sown in February & March with planting out in April at 7cm apart.  Sowing a few clumps every 2-3 weeks will give you crops throughout the season.  It is a perfect technique for those who just want a few spring onions at a time.  Clump sowing is also a great approach in a small garden where you can fit them in where you have space or between slower growing veggies.

Lovely sweet and mild flavour from this Japanese bunching onion, with the added benefit of being early maturing and reputed to be less pungent.  Fantastic in your salads and also as a stir-fry ingredient.  Sow throughout the growing season (March to September) in succession for summer and autumn harvesting.   An AGM winner.                                                             Price for 100 seeds.

Lovely variety with very upright leaves.  This is a vigorous growing continental type that can be harvested from as they begin to bulb or leave them longer to form pure white almost spherical bulbs.  Enjoy their delicious tang that increases over time.  They are suitable for spring and autumn sowings.                                                                                                                  Price for 100 seeds.

The standard variety for salad onions with long white stems and bright green leaves, delicious young they bulk up relatively quickly to give a more pungent flavour. Sow March to May and again in August to September. This is a traditional and our most popular individual Spring Onion variety. Price for 100 seeds