Onions
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Allium ursinum
Ramsons Garlic, Wild Garlic, Broad Leaved Garlic
Wildflower of Britain and IrelandStarting at: €1.80
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Until a few years ago you would never have seen wild garlic on a menu, but these days is definitely a chefs' favourite. The whole plant is edible. The flavour is softer, more pleasant than cloves from garlic bulbs. The leaves have a vibrant colour that brings food to life.
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€1.68
‘Fine-leaved’ chives have a delicious, mild onion flavour. They keep their slender shape and do not get course or tough with age. The narrow linear leaves are snipped and used primarily fresh, stirred into uncooked foods, such as soft cheeses or salads.
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Chives 'Medium Leaved'
Chives€1.50Out of stock
These easy to grow chives are one of the famous fines herbes of French cuisine. Easily raised from seed, they are perennial bulbs that spread to form neat tufted clumps, ideal for edging beds and paths. They are particularly attractive when in flower and are a favourite of bees and other pollinating insects.
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€1.74
The organic version of the easy to grow chives. These are one of the famous fines herbes of French cuisine. They are a good source of vitamins A and C, and are also said to stimulate the appetite and strengthen the stomach. Organic Seed.
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Garlic or Chinese chives, Oriental Garlic
Chinese leek, Oriental garlic chives, Ku chai, Koo chye or Gau choy€1.56A relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world but well-known in Asian cuisine, the flavour of garlic chives is more like garlic than chives, though much milder. Both leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used a stir fry ingredient. The flowers may also be used as a spice.
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Leek 'Autumn Mammoth' Organic
Early Mid-Season Leek€2.22Leek 'Autumn Mammoth' is an outstanding variety for autumn cultivation, producing excellent yields of thick, medium long, white shanks with dark green erect leaves. It is an ideal variety for baby leek production and can be grown under cover for early cropping. Organic seeds.
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Leek 'Longbow'
Midseason Leek.€2.94Leek Longbow is a reliable, trusted and well know variety with good long shanks and medium green leaves. Harvest from September it will stay in good condition in the soil into the new year when the serious frosts set in. RHS AGM
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Leek 'Musselburgh'
Midseason Leek. Heritage (1834)€1.98Leek Musselburgh is named for a coastal market town on the Firth of Forth. Introduced in 1834, it has remained popular ever since. It is extremely hardy and can be picked over winter from December to April when there is little else in the garden. A very hardy leek and a very dependable performer.
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Leek 'Oarsman F1'
Midseason Leek.€3.18Leek F1 Oarsman is one of the best hybrid leek varieties currently available. With good early vigour, bulking up quickly, with dark, erect foliage and uniform pure white, long stems with no sign of bulbing. Sow March through to May, it can be harvested from November through to March. RHS AGM
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Leek 'Tornado'
Autumn / Winter Leek.€2.94Leek Tornado is a very high yielding, open pollinated variety. Carefully chosen to give excellent uniformity, vigour and good disease resistance, particularly to rust. The plants are erect with long shanks and medium green foliage. Ideal for harvesting September to January, after the mid season varieties.
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Leek 'Winter Giant 3'
Autumn / Winter Leek.€1.98Leek Winter Giant 3 is an extremely hardy leek, it will put up with blistering gales and frost without a pause. Harvest from October to March. The solid, long white stems are exhibition quality with an outstanding flavour.
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Leek 'Zermatt'
Early Mid-Season Leek€2.94Leek Zermatt is an early Swiss Giant variety with long shaft and erect foliage. Ready to eat in just 6 to 12 weeks. Sow from March through to May and harvest from July through to October. It has some rust resistance and good storage characteristics.
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Onion 'Ailsa Craig Prizewinner'
White Bulbing, Exhibition Onion.
Heritage (English 1887)€1.62With outstanding quality and excellent keeping qualities, Ailsa Craig Prizewinner is much loved by both home gardeners and exhibitors producing weighty onions perfect for the kitchen or show bench. A heritage variety and great all-rounder, Ailsa Craig still takes some beating.
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Onion 'Borettana'
Maincrop, Cipollini variety
Heritage (Italian 1400's)€1.62Borettana onions are the Italian sports car of onions. Sweet, sleek, and stylish with a wonderful flavour, once a rare treat only to be found at gourmet restaurants. They are a good onion for colder climates, harvested in early autumn they fill the gap between winter-stored onions and the early new ones.
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Onion 'Cipolle di Tropea', Sweet Red Onion of Tropea
Maincrop, Red Onion
Heritage (Italian 1500's)€1.74Italy boasts many varieties of onion, but perhaps the most famous is Cipolla di Tropea. It can be sown in either autumn, September to October or in spring, late February to early April. The shape of its bulbs, the deep purple colour, its extraordinary sweetness, and its refined taste, make it one of the most interesting products in the entire Italian agriculture.
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Onion 'Globo'
Early, White Bulbing, Exhibition Onion.€2.70Onion 'Globo' has the classic ‘flask’ shape with pale straw skin colour and dark veining, this is an early onion and perfect for the August September shows. Sow maincrop onions March to April outdoors, and thin early. For very large onions sow December to early January and transplant seedlings in spring.
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Onion 'Long de Florence Simane'
Maincrop, Continental Red Onion
Rossa Lunga di Firenze, Heritage (Italian 1800's)€1.62A splendid carmine-red onion Long de Florence Simane is an old continental variety that is very popular in Europe. Elongated in shape, this maincrop variety can be picked still small and used raw sliced into salads or grown to maturity, they can be baked or roasted on skewers to retain their unusual 'bottle' shape.
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Onion 'North Holland Blood Red, Redmate'
Salad or Bulbing Onion, Red Onion€2.34Redmate is an excellent duel purpose variety of onion. It can be harvested early and eaten as a mild salad onion or left to grow. Red bulb onions are mild and the sweetest tasting of all onions and recommended to liven up the salad bowl.
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Onion 'Red Baron' Organic
Mid to Late Variety, Red Bulbing Onion€2.70Red Baron is a well known and very popular mid to late maturing variety. Easy to grow, an excellent cropper and good for over-winter storage, it produces beautiful globe shaped, firm, well flavoured bulbs with good skins and thin necks.
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Onion 'Rijnsburger 5'
Maincrop, White Bulbing Onion€1.50Onion Rijnsburger is an excellent Dutch variety with uniform sized, large globe-shaped bulbs with thin necks. They have a beautiful firm straw coloured skin, pure white flesh and a good flavour. As a standard maincrop it offers excellent quality, high yields and a very good storage life.
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Onion 'Senshyu Yellow'
Overwintering, Maincrop, Semi Globe.€1.50Overwintering Onion ‘Senshyu Yellow Globe’ is a hardy and reliable maincrop onion, for harvesting before the traditional spring sown bulbing varieties are ready. It produces heavy yields of semi-globe shaped bulbs with straw coloured skins and matures June to July from an August sowing.
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Onion 'Sturon' Organic
Maincrop, Overwintering, White Bulbing Onion.€2.22Sturon is an excellent, standard maincrop variety, producing high quality, juicy-fleshed bulbs.The main variety for onion set production for many years, it is a very flexible dual purpose onion which offers good resistance to bolting. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
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Onion 'Stuttgart', Organic
White or Yellow Bulbing Onion€1.98Onion ‘Stuttgart’ is a late-season variety, originating in the Netherlands where it is called ‘Stuttgarter Riesen’, this well-known heirloom variety is traditionally the most popular variety for the home gardener. Organic Seeds
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Onion, Bunching 'Ishikura'
Japanese Bunching Onion, Naga Negi€1.74Bunching onion “Ishikura” is a outstanding variety of that does not bulb but forms long white stalks. It is a perennial variety that is cold hardy, very adaptable to various climates and resistant to pink root and botrytis leaf blight. It is suitable for later crops and for overwintering.