Salad onion
- How to grow Salad Onion | Growing Guides
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| Growing calendar | |
|---|---|
| Sow outdoors | Mar - Jul |
| Harvest | Jun - Oct |
How to grow salad onions
Regularly sow salad onion seed 0.5cm deep in rows 10cm apart. Thin seedlings if needed to 2.5-5cm. Sowing regularly will give a succession of harvests and avoid the plants all being ready to eat at once.
Water plants in dry weather for steady growth. Break off any flower stems that appear.
Harvesting salad onions
Gently lift bulbs when 1-2cm across and the leaves are still green. Loosen with a hand fork if needed.
Tips on growing salad onions
Weeds can easily damage plants so carefully remove by hand. Remove thinnings to avoid attracting onion root fly.
| Growing notes | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | Easy |
| Germination time | 21 days |
| Average time to harvest | 10-12 weeks |
| Equipment needed | None |
| Average plant size | 20cm tall, 5cm wide |
| Family group to grow with | Alliaceae: garlic, shallots |
| Seed saving notes | Annual, can cross-pollinate |
| Key nutritional content | Folate, vitamins A and C, iron |