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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, with a cluster of seeds 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.)   'Helens Welsh Siberian' Perennial Bunching Onion WEB SEPCIAL This is a perennial bunching onion. Once grown from seed, you can split the bunches, leaving at least one from each to replant, and eating the others. A bunching onion that is actually from Russia - Historically “welsh” was used to refer to any veg that was ‘foreign’! However, this seed really is grown in Wales, in the Round Garden at Brithdir Mawr. Easily grown from seed, grows well in cold wet conditions. Order ONHW- about 200 seed [OG1] £1.64 'TopSetting' or Tree Onions NEW 2010 crop just harvested 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 of this very rare plant. To be clear and avoid any disappointment, the bulbils are very small - about the size of a large pea. You are requesting 1 topsetting onion - but to be sure of getting one to grow we send you four bulbils. If you don't get one established onion plant, then of course we will refund or replace. Order ONTS - 4 tiny little onion sets [OG1] £1.75