Bunching onion 'Parade'

Allium fistulosum L.

Popular variety of spring onions, for it's reliability, uniform growth, and high yield of tender, thick white shafts. Vegetation period is 60–75 days. Stems are lush, dark green and have a mild taste.

Plants are drought resistant, tolerate well low temperature. Grow best in cultivated sandy loam or light sandy loam soil. Can be cultivated in greenhouses, in containers, in open field. When grown outside, the vegetation period continues from 60 to 90 days.

Both the white onion base and the hollow green leaves can be eaten, the leaves have a milder taste than the base. Blanching will give a longer white base, alternately if transplanting seedlings they can be placed deeper. Excess can be frozen. Used in salad, soup, rice, noodle dishes (especially used in the East), scrambled eggs - you name it!

Harvest only the leaves and it will grow more leaves, or harvest entire plants when it's the stronger white base you're after.

Seeds might be treated. If the seeds are treated, the name of the treatment is given at the bottom of the package. Seeds might be treated. If the seeds are treated, the name of the treatment is given at the bottom of the package.

Bunching onions are also commonly called scallions, green onions, spring onions, Welsh onions and Japanese green onions! Bunching onions (allium fistulosum) are hardy and if sown in July/August generally overwinter if covered, providing an early spring harvest.

Direct sowing: March - April or Aug for for overwintering. Water before sowing and keep moist until the seeds germinate.

Harvest: July - Sept when sown in the Spring, from early spring if over-wintered. 

Spacing: 5 cm / 5 or more plants per GreenStalk pocket. When growing as an annual, you can also use the multi-sowing method and sow 5-7 seeds very closely together, and either twist out the largest ones occassionally, or dig up the bunch, harvest what you want and replant. Using this method, you can plant two groups in each GreenStalk pocket. 

Sow depth, cm: 2-3

Location: Sun - partial shade

Perennial, can also be grown as Annual

Number of seeds: approx 70