Red Onion 'Long Red Florence'

The sweetest onion in our catalogue with a rich flavour only found in homegrown onions. Long Red Florence is a very versatile Italian heirloom variety which can be cropped as quick-growing, bright purple salad onions or left to mature into elongated, red bulbs. The mature bulbs are so sweet and full-flavoured, delicious in salads or as a rich base for any dish.

Sow in March - 3-5 seeds per modules a la Charles Dowding. Harvest fresh and you can use the stems too. Later harvests have a more pungent flavour. Not the best storage onion, best eaten within a couple of months of harvest.

• Sow: multi-sow 3-5 seeds per module for bulbs or clusters of 10 for spring onions, March undercover
• Plant: 20cm spacing between modules
• Harvest: July-August
• Kitchen: Pairs with everything. Use raw or cooked in a myriad of dishes.

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1g (approx 250 seeds). We pack seeds by weight, the number of seeds in a packet is an estimate.

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