Salad Onion – Ishikura

£3.99

Ishikura is a perennial Japanese bunching onion which forms clumps of straight, white stems which are very tasty.

Salad Onion – Ishikura Information

Your plants will arrive as multi-sown plugs, ready to be planted out
Number of vegetable plant plugs in the box: 10
Latin name for Salad Onion – Ishikura: Allium fistulosum

Salad Onion – Ishikura is a perennial Japanese bunching onion which forms clumps of straight, white stems which are very tasty. Ishikura are extremely versatile and can be harvested when they are pencil-thin like spring onions or left until they are as thick as leeks. They have a long harvesting season from June – October, making Salad Onion – Ishikura a great choice – they have been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit, a key indicator that they are worth including in any garden.

Onions planting schedule

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Planning your site

Onions need a nice and sunny, sheltered spot with moist soil in either open ground, planters or raised beds. Plant sets and little plants 5-10cm apart depending on their ultimate size- spring onions will need less space than fat white maincrop onions!

Growing tips

Gently push the sets into soft, well-worked soil so that the tip is just showing, and firm the soil around them. Keep onions watered and weeded regularly. Because onions are slow growers with shallow roots, they suffer if they have too much competition from weeds. Remove any flower spikes as soon as you see them.

What to watch out for

Onion white rot is a white fluffy fungus which appears on the base of the bulb which then becomes covered in small, round black structures. Onion Downy Mildew is best avoided with good air circulation and by watering soil, not leaves.

What to do when your plants arrive

Unpack them. Your seedlings will arrive carefully packed in bio-degradable straw, cardboard and paper. They may look a little bit bedraggled from their journey. Don’t panic – this is totally normal and they should soon perk up. Please try and unpack your plants as soon as they arrive, as every extra hour they spend in the box will add to the stress of travelling to their new home.
Give them a drink. Having spent a day or two in the post, your new plants will be thirsty! Stand them up in some fresh water for a few minutes to make sure their roots have been thoroughly soaked before planting.
Plant them out into their forever home! Your plants can’t wait to get their roots into the soil. Plant them out according to the instructions that will have come in the box with them. Make sure you water them in well, and give them plenty to drink until their roots have had a chance to get settled.

Substitutions

As you well know, plants are unpredictable creatures and so is the British weather. As such, we reserve the right to substitute items in your order for an equivalent variety. To find out more about substitutions, please take a look at our terms and conditions.

Delivery

We charge a flat shipping fee of £6.99 per shipping season. If you order everything from one season ie Spring you will be charged once, if you order Spring and Summer you will be charged twice etc. We do not ship outside of the UK.

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