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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: mdjlucan on March 19, 2017, 15:09

Title: Red spring onion
Post by: mdjlucan on March 19, 2017, 15:09

Can anyone know where to get the sets for these thanks

Title: Re: Red spring onion
Post by: sunshineband on March 19, 2017, 15:45

Do you mean salad onions? (I grow these from seed)

Or red onions sets that you plant in the Spring? They have these in our local Garden Centre : Red Baron

Hope that helps

Title: Re: Red spring onion
Post by: mdjlucan on March 19, 2017, 15:49

Salad onions

Title: Re: Red spring onion
Post by: DD. on March 19, 2017, 15:59

I grow these:

North Holland Bloodred Redmate (https://www.wholesale.molesseeds.co.uk/conventional-vegetables/d-p/onion/salad/onion-north-holland-blood-red-redmate-VON180)

£2.10 for 2,500 seeds from Moles or £1.99 for 300 from Suttons. Not much of a contest!

Title: Re: Red spring onion
Post by: arh on March 19, 2017, 16:44

Thank you for that info D.D., A very comprehensive seed merchant, from first glance many more varieties that Suttons, certainly an easier site for one such as I to navigate. It's now logged in for next year. Thanks again. arh.

Title: Re: Red spring onion
Post by: snow white on March 19, 2017, 19:46

Kings Seeds "Lilia Spring Onion".  Sorry don't know price.

Title: Re: Red spring onion
Post by: Salmo on March 20, 2017, 00:07

Apache keep their red when peeled.

Title: Re: Red spring onion
Post by: Potty Plotty Lotty on March 20, 2017, 12:43

Long Florence Red for me. Best of both worlds! Salad onions initially but if you leave them longer they bulb up.

Quite a few suppliers including premier seeds direct on Amazon/ebay.

Title: Re: Red spring onion
Post by: p6t6 on March 23, 2017, 21:46

I grew Lilia spring onions from kings last year. They were ok. Trying again this year as had trouble with all onions last year, so unfair to judge.