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Shallots, Onions and Garlic can be planted this month provided the weather hasn't been too wet and the ground is workable. If you have ordered Heat Prepared Onion Sets they will be delivered in late March – early April, which is the ideal time to plant them out. They have been specially heat-treated for a period of 20 weeks, which helps to prevent bolting. The skin of heat treated sets is a bit darker than regular sets and they have slightly lower moisture content. They cost a little more but the increased growing period and high quality yield more than makes up for it. New Fen Globe and Fen Early will be ready a little earlier than Hyred and Hytech. If you are a regular exhibitor at your local show you will need no introduction to Marshalls Showmaster Onions - they can reach up to 4lbs each with a just a little extra care and attention! So if you enjoy exhibiting, or would like to give it a go at your local produce show, try our module-grown onion plants. They are raised early under carefully controlled conditions to produce strong young plants ready for you to pot up into 3½inch (9cm) pots and grow on. Harden them off before you plant them out at the end of April-early May and they will produce some of the biggest and best onions you have ever seen. Even if you don’t grow for exhibition, Showmaster is a useful garden variety, it has a mild sweet flavour similar to Spanish onion types, perfect for using raw in salads. If you prefer a standard maincrop onion but want to grow from plants rather than sets then Sturon is the one for you, slow to bolt with very good storage qualities. |
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