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Onion Sets - Description
- Onion Sets
- Variety: Snowball
- Allium Cepa
- Colour: Traditional White Onions
- Size: 100 Sets
- White Flesh & Smooth White Skin
- Set Size: 14/21mm
- Produces Medium Sized, Globe Shaped Bulbs
- Can Sow Close Together for Green Bunching Onions
- Stores Well
Onion Sets - Sowing Instructions
- Main crop onion
- Sow: Mid March-April or earlier under cover
- Sowing location: Light, sandy soil in an open, sunny site
- Preferably dug & manured the previous Autumn
- Spacing: Rows 25cm apart with sets spaced 5cm apart
- Depth: Place sets, pointed end up, just below the soil surface
- The tip of the set should lie just under the soil
- Harvest after 22 weeks, once foliage turns yellow; water crop & lift slightly with garden fork
- Harvest crop 2 weeks later in sunny weather
Onion Sets - Uses
- Suitable for fresh market
- Bunching or normal large onions
- Perfect for cooking
Onion Sets - Advantages
- No thinning required
- Less likely to bolt than if grown from set
- Versatile: Can be grown close together for green bunching onions or spaced for large onions
- Low cost
- More reliable than if grown from set
- Less likely to be attacked by the onion fly than those grown from set
- Great companion plant for carrots to deter pests like carrot fly
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