Onion Seeds

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Onion 'Taresco' produces good sized, golden-brown skinned, globe shaped bulbs with crisp white flesh. This productive and reliable variety produces high yields of strongly rooted onions with excellent storage potential.

Height: 45cm (18inch)
Spread: 15cm (6inch)

This upright, dark stemmed spring onion is ideal for sowing closely for high yields of delicious, full flavoured stems. When sown every 4 weeks, Spring onion 'Sentry' will provide good yields throughout summer. Absolutely delicious in sandwiches and salads.

Height: 30cm (12inch)
Spread: 5cm (2inch)

Great Value Seeds from Country Value

Will stand over winter to use in spring. Particularly suited to harsher climes. Can also be spring grown.

Great Value Seeds from Country Value

Mild, tasty white bulbs with dark green stem. Quick and easy to grow, perfect for salads and stir fries.

Traditional Italian torpedo shaped bulbs with stunning, deep purple red skin. Bulbs of mild and sweet flavour, ideal sliced for salads and stir-fries, also pickling. Dual purpose - pull young as spring onions or allow to form mature bulbs.

Forms a clump of slender elongated bulbs and long green stalks, similar to chives. A type of perennial bunching onion usually grown as an annual, and winter hardy. Quite pungent flavoured, use both the leaves and small bulbs.

A mild salad onion which becomes increasingly pungent as the bulbs mature, can be used at any stage. Often roasted on skewers to retain its unusual 'bottle' shape.

Fast growing 'Spanish' variety producing high yields of uniform globes with excellent flavour. The sweet, mild, less pungent flesh is extremely versatile and ideal for using raw or cooked.

An excellent variety for providing fresh salad onions in autumn. Hardy salad onions that stand through winter. Crispy and non-bulbing with a mild flavour. Ideal for salads and stir-fries.

Easy to grow and an essential ingredient in many Asian dishes. The long white non-bulbing stems have a sweet mild flavour and can be eaten raw or cooked. Grow in the garden or containers.

Part of the Alan Titchmarsh Collection

New 2008

For all the year round production of delicious spring/bunching onions with upright, dark green leaves and mild flavoured stems which do not bulb. You can successionally sow throughout spring and summer, continuing into autumn. Prefers fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. A source of vitamin C and the B vitamins. Their pungent flavour indicates they are full of the polynutrients thought to endow onion.

The best bulb variety to sow outdoors in autumn for overwintering, producing quality bulbs, 120g (4oz) in weight. Ideal for the exhibitor as well as the kitchen. Good winter hardiness. Can also be spring sown, producing quality bulbs. Prefers rich, moist soil in an open situation.

The answer to gardeners' prayers. The first bulb onion resistant to the devastating downy mildew, a fungal disease of leaves, which affects yield, bulb quality and keeping qualities. A maincrop with copper brown skinned bulbs with crisp white flesh.

A splendid exhibition variety of golden merit producing large globe shaped onions with a rich, golden straw coloured skin. As well as being a super show variety, it is also one of the best varieties for general cultivation producing large onions with an excellent mild flavour. Can also be autumn sown.

A new type of spring onion. It does not form bulbs, yet stays white and very straight. Can be harvested pencil-thin or thinner, yet left till its grown as thick as a mature carrot. Because it has such a long harvesting period, you rarely waste any and unlike normal types there is not the need to be sowing every three weeks for a continuous crop.

Very quick growing salad onions, sow in succession for a continuous crop all spring, summer and autumn.

A very popular and reliable variety for well over 100 years. Ideally suited to our climate producing large globe shaped, golden brown skinned bulbs with crisp white flesh.

Late summer maturity. Well grown bulbs have excellent storing capabilities.

Grows best in well-drained, rich soil in full sun.

Super little pickling or cocktail onions which are easy and quick to grow and do well on the poorest soils. Sow thickly and the resultant competition will prevent the bulbs from getting too large for pickling purposes.

A dual purpose onion that resists bulbing up enabling it to be pulled for a longer period than regular varieties. Excellent overwintering qualities, can be sown either late August for late May pulling or in spring and summer for summer/autumn crops.

A dual purpose Italian variety with a pungent flavour. Best grown as a salad onion with nice, dark green leaves and a shiny, intense red inner core.

Can also be grown as a maincrop, storing bulb onion. When fully mature it shows off its defined red and white inner rings.

An attractive deep purple-red skinned spring onion with a mild flavour and a crisp texture. The purple outer skin merges with the silver when peeled, adding a colour contrast to salads. Ideal for growing in containers, or outdoors throughout the season.

A mid-late maturing variety with flattish-round bulbs of a beautiful dark red colour. An excellent cropper producing attractive, firm well flavoured bulbs which keep well.

Quick-growing small, flat-shaped bulbs, with yellow/brown skins and crisp white, tasty flesh. Excellent for a range of culinary uses. Ideal used for successional sowing through the spring. Sowing densities will determine the bulb size you harvest.

Long pure white slender stems contrast with the dark green, erect leaves of this outstanding spring onion. Excellent heat and downy mildew tolerance. Stands very well, keeping in good condition. Ideal for successional sowing.

A breeding breakthrough! The first commercial variety of sweet and mild bulb onions available to UK gardeners. The large semi-globe, copper-skinned bulbs are so sweet and juicy they can be eaten raw providing you with a full range of health benefits including vitamin C and the antioxidant, quercetin. Bulbs are best used as required, as they are not renowned for their storage capabilities.

Please note: Onion flavour (its sweetness and mildness) is significantly affected by soil type, weather conditions and its sulphur content. Light, sandy soils produce the highest levels of sweetness, whereas clay and dark organic soils can result in bulbs with a stronger flavour.

Quick growing with a delicious, pungent flavour. Combine with tomatoes and fresh basil for a tasty summer salad.

Firm, brown skinned bulbs with pungent white flesh. Good storage ability. Combine with fresh sage for a classic stuffing mixture.

Allium cepa. A quick growing, small round, succulent silver skinned cocktail/pickling onions, Spring Onion Pompeii is ideal for sowing thinly in containers or window boxes.