Onion : Bunching/Spring : North Holland Blood Red - Redmate
Vegetable
Description
Dual purpose variety particularly for sowing as a 'bunching salad onion' whilst its bright red outer skin adds colour to a salad or stir fry.
Mild flavour with crisp flesh when pulled young.
If thinned out will produce larger, red skinned bulbs.
Sowing Instructions
| Sowing time: | late winter/early spring just as soon as the ground is workable. |
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| Sowing depth: | 2cm (1in) deep in 30cm (12in) apart rows. |
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Sow outdoors.
Sow thinly in an open sunny site.
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
Start to harvest by using 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.
