Red Odourless Onion

(Allium Cepa)

Produces sizeable red onion with crisp mild flavoured flesh with all the flavour of onion but no odour. Used mostly as a salad onion or makes a lovely onion Jam (brown sugar and balsamic vinegar). Sow 1.5cm deep in rows 20cm apart in cultivated weed free soil, Sow late April until end May, sow in April in cold districts as cold can check growth rate. In August transplant to 12cm apart and side dress with COF. Harvest when the tops droop, approx. December. Harvest around November/December.

Companion Planting
• Good Neighbours: Carrot, Beetroot, Brassicas, Lettuce, Chamomile, Tomato, Parsley.  Onions help repel/deter pests. Also radish, silverbeet and spinach
• Bad Neighbours: Beans (inhibit growth), Peas, Sage, Asparagus, Items also from Onion family (can attract pests)

>>>Please see detailed growing instructions below.