Growing Calendar for Onion Seeds - Pickling: Giant Zittau
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My AccountProduces excellent medium-sized, pale brown onions with a good flavour.
Giant Zittau is an excellent variety for pickling.
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Full flavour, brown skin, pickling onion
Sow Indoors: March-April thinly ½in (1cm) deep in clean trays or modules of firm pre watered compost. Keep soil moist at all times.
Sow Outdoors: April-May thinly ½in (1cm) deep and in rows 12in(30cm) apart directly in harvest location as soon as soil is friable.
Thin Out: not needed
Plant Out: April-May
Harvest: July-September Do not leave in soil after they mature.
Standard Seeds E.C Rules and Regulations.
August is primarily about harvesting your crops, but there are still some vegetables that can be sown and planted out!
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