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Plant Height
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Garlic/Spring Onions Up to 30cm/12-inches
Other onions Up
to 60cm/2ft depending on variety |
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Time between sowing
and harvesting
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Spring/salad
Onions - 12 weeks
Others
- +22
weeks Depending on Variety
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Where to Sow
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Garlic & Spring/salad onions
- Outdoors
in open ground or in containers
All other onions - outdoors in open ground |
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Sowing time
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Garlic - March to April - temperature +10C/50F
Spring/Salad
- March to July - temperature +10C/50F Others
- March- April - temperature +10C/50F Can
also be grown from sets |
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How to Sow/plant
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Garlic - Divide the bulb into cloves, leaving the
skins on. Plant 5cm/2-inches deep, pointy end up covering with about
2.5cm/1 inch of compost or soil. 1 bulb to a 15cm/6-inch pot
Others (including spring/salad onions) - 12mm/1/2-inch
deep - very thinly - in rows 30cm/12" apart or in groups/blocks. Sets
- plant 10-15cm/4-6" apart in rows 30cm/12" apart or in
groups/blocks. |
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After Germination
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All
seed sown varieties - Thin seedlings to 2.5cm/1". Keep the soil moist but not
very wet and weed free. |
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Growing on
-
in Pots
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Garlic and Spring/salad Onions only - Water in dry weather and feed once or twice during the growing
season. |
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Growing on
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in
open ground
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Spring/Salad
Onions - Water in dry weather and feed once or twice during the
growing season. Keep weed free
Garlic - Water in dry weather and feed
every two weeks between June and August. Keep weed free Others
- thin to 10cm/4" apart. Keep weed free. Water in dry
weather and feed once or twice during the growing season. |
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Aftercare
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Spring/Salad
Onions - as above
Garlic - Break off any flower stems which may
appear. Stop watering in late August.
Others
- Break off any flower stems which may appear. Stop watering once the
bulbs have swollen and pull back any covering earth to expose the bulb
surface.
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Harvesting
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Spring/Salad
Onions - Pull as and when needed
Garlic and Others
- Once the foliage has turned yellow and toppled over, leave the bulbs
for a further two weeks then carefully lift with a fork. Onions which are
not going to be used immediately should be spread out and left to dry
(outside if the weather is clement or inside if rainy. Discard any soft
or damaged bulbs. |
