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Onion 'T&M's First Early' (Autumn Planting)

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Hardy Bulb

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Autumn Planting.

A reintroduction of a top customer favourite of recent years. An overwintering onion, ‘T&M’s First Early’ produces attractive yellow skinned bulbs that will give you your first crop of the season. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).

Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.


Companion planting: Try growing onions with mint to confuse and deter onion fly.


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Flowering Period:
May, June
Position:
full sun
    • 250g/50 sets

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    • 500g/100 sets

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Plant onion sets in rows in any firm, well drained soil in full sun. Prepare the planting area several weeks in advance by incorporating some well rotted garden compost to improve drainage and soil fertility. Avoid planting onions on freshly manured soil. On particularly wet ground, try growing onion sets in raised beds. When growing onions from sets, plant the bulbs so that the tip of bulb is just protruding through the soil surface. Leave a space of 10cm (4") between each bulb, and 30cm (12") between each row.
Onion sets are undemanding and require only occasional watering during particularly dry periods. However, rows should be weeded regularly. Harvest onions in late June and July, a week or two after the leaves begin to turn yellow. Choose a dry day to loosen them from the ground with a fork. Leave them on the soil surface for a day or two until they have fully dried in the sun. Once dry, remove the top foliage and store them in a well ventilated, dry position. Bulbs can be stored for several months.

Seeds and garden supplies will normally be delivered within the time period stated against each product as detailed above. Plants, bulbs, corms, tubers, shrubs, trees, potatoes etc are delivered at the appropriate time for planting and will be stated on the product page or in your order acknowledgement page and email.

Orders for packets of seed incur a P&P charge of £1.95.
Orders which include any other products will incur a P&P charge of £4.95.
Where an order includes both packets of seeds and other products a maximum P&P charge of £6.90 will apply - regardless of the number of items ordered.

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  1. "Reliable" is probably the right word ....

    By Ellen Kunec 22-04-2011

    Very good performance as an over winter onion. I planted a row over these on my Midlands allotment in Nov 2009 and every set produced a solid medium sized onion with no bolting. Would definitely recommend esp to the novice and will plant again.

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