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Description
- Spring planting onion
- Early to harvest
- Good crops of plump round onions
- Pack of approx 75 sets delivered to your door
Plant Onion ‘Contado’ in spring for early harvests of firm, plump round onions that add flavour to a whole range of dishes and store well for months. This robust onion is a great all-rounder in the kitchen.
How you will receive your plants:
Selected by our team of experts and sent from our nursery, you will receive autumn-planting onion and shallot sets from late September, and spring-planting sets from mid-January, in a breathable net bag. This keeps the sets together in a pack that is nice and airy – perfect to keep them healthy while in transit.
Can’t plant straight away?
Keep your onion or shallot sets in a cool, dark, and dry place and preferably hanging on a hook so that air can get to the bulbs at all angles. Ideally, you should aim to plant your sets within a week of receiving them, but if this is not possible, store them in a cool, dark place until you are ready to plant them.
Planting tips and hints:
Dig over the soil with a shovel to clear weeds. A couple of weeks before planting, rake in chicken manure pellets.
Push the sets into the soil with pointed end upwards and the tips just showing above the soil. Space onions 5-10cm apart and shallots 15-20cm apart. Water in after planting and cover the area with horticultural fleece to protect the young plants from birds.
Water regularly in dry periods. Remove any flowerspikes that appear. Stop watering once the leaves start to yellow.
Harvest bulbs once the leaves have turned yellow and flopped over. Use a fork to carefully lift the bulbs.
Click here to view our full Onions and Shallots Growing Guide.
Growing Calendar
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 | £2.49 | If you purchase any other items you'll be charged the standard delivery rate of £5.99 |
| Plants, bulbs & gardening accessories | £5.99 | 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) | £5.99 | These items are subject to a delivery multiplier where orders containing 3 or 4 items will be subject to an additional £5.99 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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