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~ Onion Seed ~ We are building up a selection of onions from our trials that we think are particularly easy to grow from seed. This year we are offering some bunching onions. These grow incredibly quickly from seed, making a 'bunch' of plants like spring onions. You chop up and use the whole plant, not just the bulb at the bottom. Very nice cooked just as you would use any onion, but also in salads and omelettes etc. When? Usually sow after midsummer, for cold-hardy onions, over wintering for use the following spring. (They can also be sown in Spring - shown in pale green below - for very nice spring onions from the start of July on into August.)     'Ishikura Long White' Bunching Onion This is a very good, cold-hardy bunching onion, that makes quite large spring onions quickly from either a spring or late summer sowing. We like this as it gives you nice bunches of well-flavoured onions, for pulling up and using (both green and white bits) over winter. Hand-selected organic seed - unlike onion sets this is grown in Europe, and grown without chemicals or artficial lighting. Order ONLW- about 200 seed [CO1] £1.50 'Winterhecke' Bunching Onion A vigorous, particularly cold hardy bunching onion which does well from a late summer sowing. (Can also be sown in spring for summer harvest.) This variety produces slightly smaller 'spring onions', but in dense bunches, with a particularly good oniony flavour. Hand-selected organic seed - unlike onion sets this is grown in Europe, and grown without chemicals or artficial lighting. Order ONWi - about 200 seed [CO1] £1.50 Sorry, sold out.   Top - Setting Onions - SORRY SOLD OUT NOW Here we have a botanical oddity for you which we have grown for years, but only now have added to the catalogue. Topsetting onions are a class of bunching onions that are, well, a bit confused. They grow normally, but when the time comes, instead of making a flower, they make a tiny bunch of bulbils on the end of the flowerstalk where the flower should be. Sometimes these then sprout while still attached, making a second set of bulbs at the top! They are also known as 'Tree Onions' or 'Walking Onions' because the flowerstalk falls over, and the bulbils root where they touch the ground. The next year, these form onions in the new location, grow a stalk with bulbils on top - which then falls over . . . in this way they can walk a good foot every year and eventually migrate off your plot and into the wilds. The onions are nice and hardy, and used as any bunching onion, while the bulbils can be used in pickles, or chopped up for cooking -but we think most people really want them for amusement as much as anything else. We are offering a mix this year of at least two types, small packets due to a poor harvest, but at a very reasonable price. Needless to say, you should never need to buy them again - just split up the bulbils and plant them out each year. Just a very few packets this year. SOLD OUT NOV 2007. We're sorry about that, try next autumn, we will grow more and offer them on the web again then.