- Start in early spring indoors / heated greenhouse 8-10 weeks before transplanting outdoors.
- Harvest young for salads or when mature as tops are brown and dry.
- Fertile, moist soil enriched with compost is best for onion production.
- Onions are claimed to ward off many insect pests around lettuce, cabbage and carrots
- Not suited to over-wintering, best sown in early spring.
- 100-160 days to mature.






