Onion : Bunching/Spring : Ishikuro
Vegetable
Description
A new type of spring onion. It does not form bulbs, yet stays white and very straight. Can be harvested pencil-thin or thinner, yet left till it's grown as thick as a mature carrot. Because it has such a long harvesting period, you rarely waste any and unlike normal types there is not the need to be sowing every three weeks for a continuous crop.
Sowing Instructions
| Sowing time: | late winter/early spring just as soon as the ground is workable. |
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Sow outdoors. Sow thinly in an open sunny site 2cm (1in) deep in 30cm (12in) wide rows.
Growing Instructions
Thin out when 5cm (2in) high to 2½ cm (1in) apart. After six to eight weeks, thin plants still further so that those remaining are 10-15cm (4-6in) apart.
Aftercare Instructions
The thinnings make tasty additions to a salad. Hoe and hand-weed as soon as the seedlings emerge. Mature plants can be pulled in the autumn and used in a similar fashion to leeks.
