Alliums

Growing onions comes with a lot of choices, but the first and most important is whether to grow onions from sets, seeds or seedlings. Growing onions from sets gives you a great head start, but depending on your climate can lead to bolting and early flowering. Similarly, growing onions from seeds is more reliable but…

There are dozens of varieties of bunching onions but, for me, it’s the early cropping spring onion that tops the lot, and growing bunching onions couldn’t be simpler. By their nature, bunching onions need almost no care, to the point that if you forget about them, they will just die back and regrown next year,…