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Description
- One of the best onions for autumn planting
- Early to harvest
- Mild flavour, good for pickling and cooking
- Stores well until December
Onion ‘Autumn Champion’ lives up to its name as one of the best for autumn planting. This popular variety produces early harvests of firm round onions with golden-brown skins and a mild flavour. It’s ideal for cooking and pickling, and will store well for months, lasting until mid-December.
Pre-Rooted Sets
Grow bigger, stronger onions ready to harvest earlier in the season with our pre-rooted onion sets! Our innovative NEW format is ideal for Autumn planting and for gardeners with small plots.
Do you know why birds like to pull up your freshly planted onions, it isn't just to see your angry face! No, it is because they are after the earthworms that in turn are attracted to microbes present in the immediate area around the rooting called the Rhizosphere. Microbes feast on the proteins, sugars and dead cells created from the plants roots. However, as these are pre-rooted the birds will find them harder to pull up and should leave them alone. The microbes in turn, provide the plants with essential nutrients and so the cycle continues.
To give you a head start on the growing season, we’ve pre-rooted onion sets into plug trays. Unlike normal sets, which take several weeks to start growing after being planted, these pre-rooted plugs are already rooted and growing when you receive them, ready to plant out. They’ll establish quickly, producing bigger, stronger plants earlier than traditionally planted sets, with less risk of birds or animals pulling out the sets.
Our pre-rooted onion sets are great for gardeners with small plots who only have space for a few plants and don’t want to waste a big bag of sets. There’s no more waiting to see whether all your sets will sprout – you can already see them growing! And if you missed your chance to plant sets earlier in Autumn, these pre-rooted sets are already ahead and no time is lost.
Growing Calendar
How to Guide
Planting Onions and Shallots
Prepare the ground with our Pre-Planting Onion, Garlic & Shallot Fertiliser to ensure strong bulb development and growth, early ripening and maturity, good skin and bulb firmness.
Planting Sets:
Place onion and shallot sets in the soil with their pointed ends facing upwards. This ensures proper growth orientation.
Leave 5 to 10cm (2 to 4 inches) of space between individual onions and 15 to 20cm (6 to 8 inches) between shallots.
Create rows of onions with 25cm to 30cm (10 inches to 1 foot) of spacing between them. For shallots, allow 30 to 45cm (1 foot to 18 inches) between rows.
Planting Onion Plants:
Utilise a dibber to create holes in the soil that are the same depth as the plants' original root depth in their cell tray.
Place the plants into the holes, ensuring they sit at the same depth they were in their cell tray.
Gently water the area to facilitate proper settling of the plants into the soil.
Delivery
We know how important your garden is to you. We've listened to our customers and introduced a new improved speedy delivery service, meaning Express delivery comes as standard.
*Orders to Northern Ireland have an automatic additional £3.00 delivery surcharge applied at checkout.
Order Type | Delivery Charge | Delivery Charge |
Seed only order | £2.99 | If you purchase any other items you'll be charged the standard delivery rate of £5.99 |
Plants, bulbs & gardening accessories | £4.95 | If we need to split your order into separate deliveries we'll only charge one delivery fee |
Extra large or long plants & heavy items | £9.99 | These are clearly displayed at check-out |
Compost (and any other large or heavy items) | £4.95 | These items are subject to a delivery multiplier where orders containing 3 or 4 items will be subject to an additional £4.95 for every further 2 items added. This is automatically applied at check-out:
If you'd like more than 10 bags of compost please call our Customer Service team who can arrange for a bespoke competitive quote on 01480 774555 (standard network charges apply) |
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Delivery to outside of Great Britain
We regret we are unable to deliver any items outside of some Great Britain delivery addresses. This includes Europe, Channel Islands, Republic of Ireland, USA and Rest of World. We will update our website if this changes.
We now deliver to Northern Ireland, additional delivery surcharges automatically apply at checkout.
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