Onion 'Sturon' Plants - April Despatch

Marshalls Garden

Catalogue Code: 10805307

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Grow larger onions earlier with Onion Sturon. Slow to bolt, perfect for cold regions. Royal Horticultural Society approved.

Key Features

Prefers full sun

Pack Contents: 50 Seedlings

Description

At least 50 onion plants in a pack
Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit
Slow to bolt so good for cold parts of the country

Get earlier and larger onions with Onion Sturon which has fast become a favourite with home-growers around the country. The Royal Horticultural Society praises it too, giving it an Award of Garden Merit.

An excellent, maincrop variety where the onions are ready for harvest as early as August when you grow on the young plants in spring.

This is the perfect spring-growing onion for those that savour the great flavour of home-grown onions but live in cold or exposed parts of the country and can’t grow autumn-planting onions so well.

Producing high quality, juicy-fleshed bulbs Onion Sturon is slow to bolt (highly suited for the variable weather of the UK climate) and keeps extremely well in storage so you have supplies going into autumn and winter.

Your plants arrive to you in multi-sown module trays. With 50 modules that’s at least 100 plants to give you ample supplies over autumn and winter. You need never buy another onion from the shops again.

As we raise these young plants early and under carefully-controlled conditions they really speed ahead in their growth when you plant them on. We deliver them to you in April for you to pot up into 9cm (3 ½ in) pots and then plant out as the weather warms in April or May, depending on how spring fares.

Growing Calendar

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Harvest

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.

Read our full How To Grow Onions and Shallots Guide here.

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: 1 - 2 bags £4.95 3 - 4 bags £9.90 5 - 6 bags £14.85 7 - 8 bags £19.80 9 - 10 bags £24.75 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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