Spring Onion Lilia
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BUYERS NOTES
A dual purpose Italian variety with a pungent flavour. Spring Onion Lilia is best grown as a salad onion with nice, dark green leaves and a shiny, intense red inner core. Onion Lilia can also be grown as a maincrop, storing bulb onion. When fully mature it shows off its defined red and white inner rings.
Sowing Information:
Sow seeds March-August for salads, March-April as a bulb onion. Seeds are best sown thickly in broad drills for pulling as salad/ bunching onions. Sow 13mm (¬Ωin) deep, in drills 30cm (12in) apart. If sowing for mature bulbs, sow seed more thinly.
Growing Information:
No need to thin seedlings for salads. If for bulbs, thin to 5cm (2in) for smaller bulbs or 1cm (4in) for larger bulbs.
Aftercare Information:
Will grow in any fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. Keep well watered.
FORM & SPECIFICATION
- Range: A-Z - V
- Category: Vegetable
- Hardiness: Hardy
- Longevity: Annual
- Flowering Period: -
- Harvesting Period: June, July, August, September, October
- No of Seeds: 500
- Measured By: Seed