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Onions
Low effort, long storing. A sack of home-grown onions carries you through winter.
Easy
Allium
20–26 weeks
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Onions (Onion sets, 50)
£3.49 in the shop
Calendar
Sow
Seed January – March, sets March – April
Plant out
Sets 10cm apart, tips just showing
Harvest
July – September
Conditions
Sun
Full sun
Water
Only in dry spells; stop as bulbs mature
Soil
Firm, free-draining, not freshly manured
Spacing
10cm apart, rows 30cm
Containers
Possible but yields are small
Indoors
Start seed indoors in modules
Care and harvest
Feeding
Balanced feed early; stop by midsummer
Pruning
Remove flower spikes as they appear
Harvesting
Lift once tops flop and yellow
Storage
Dry for two weeks, then net or plait in a cool shed
Good companions: Carrots, Beetroot, Lettuce