Onions

 We'll be growing many different onions including rare and unusual varieties.

	'Yellow Rynsburger' Long-keeping Onion - This is a very well known traditional deep yellow-brown onion with a high yield and nice dense bulbs. It stores for a long time after harvest, a great one for all winter cooking. Sow in sprint for harvest in Aug/Sept and it will store until the following March.
	'Early Paris White' Overwintering Onion - A cold hardy overwintering onion. Very nice white onions early in the year. Sow around Aug 18th and also about 3 months later. Not a storage onion, but for eating fresh as and when you harvest it.
	'Zebrune' Shallot - Shallots are similar to normal onions but a bit different. they have a sweeter and milder taste. This variety makes bigger bulbs than traditional shallots. Excellent in salads or cooked.
	'Jaune Paille de Vertus' Onion - A very popular heirloom onion at least a couple hundred years old. This makes flattened bulbs about 3 to 4 inches across, with a brown-yellow skin. It was traditionally a winter-storage onion, keeping very well after harvest in August-September.
	Kyoto Market Green Leaf Bunching or Spring Onion - A well known traditional variety from Japan. It has been bred to make a lot of green leaves. Chop them all up and add to omlttes, soups, stew and salads. It also splits into bunches as it grows which you can divide the clump to multiply the onion patch.
	'Blood Red Redmate' Onion - ...
	'Blanc Gros de Rebouillon' Onion - ...
	'Cuisse de Poulet du Poitou' Onion - ...
	'Red Baron' Onion - ...
	'Rossa Lunga Difirente' Onion - ...
	Feast White Stem Spring / Salad Onion - Feast is a modern variety that has been bred for very long white stems. It can easily be chopped and used instead of onions in any recipe. Each seed gives one onion.

 

 
 When to sow and harvest

 Growing setup

 

 

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 Growing advice

 

 

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 Saving Onion seed

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 How to keep the seed true

 

 

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 Hand pollination

 

 

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 Known Onion pests and natural preventatives

 

 

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 Recipes with Onion

 

 

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 How to store Lettuce

 

 

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 Videos of our Onion plants

 

 

 

 

 

 Other Pictures of Onion