0.2g (app.55) giant onion seeds AILSA CRAIG Scottish heirloom a huge 5 lb onion

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0.2g (app.55) giant onion seeds AILSA CRAIG Scottish heirloom a huge 5 lb onion:
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***AILSA CRAIG***

Description

A Heritage Exhibition Variety which was named after a small island off the coast of Scotland. It is a large, globe-shaped onion with golden, straw coloured skin and produces weighty onions perfect for the show bench. The excellent keeping qualities and mild flavour make it a superb variety.

Similar to Kelsae Sweet Giant. Produces largest bulbs of any variety.

This heirloom onion is by far the largest onion you can grow in a short growing season. If you are looking for show-size variety with which to win the county fair for largest onion, this is it. Pump these up with lots of nitrogen to get them as big as basketballs.

Growing Instructions

Things You\'ll Need

•Ailsa Craig onion seeds

•Seed-starting medium

•Seed growing trays

•Grow lights

•Scissors

•Compost

•Spading fork

•Bar rake

•Warren hoe

•Plastic spoon

•Fish emulsion fertilizer

•Water

•Pruners

•Baskets or mesh bags

1.Starting Seeds

1. Fill seed trays with seed-starting medium 10 to 12 weeks before the anticipated last frost date. Use a plastic spoon to create drills, or small light indentation lines, along the surface of the seed-starting medium, about three inches apart.

2. Sprinkle Ailsa Craig onion seeds into the drills, and cover them lightly with about one-quarter inch of seed-starting medium. Water the seed trays until the seed-starting medium is moist. Place the trays under grow lights and keep the seed-starting medium moist until the seedlings are about 4 inches tall.

3. Trim the Ailsa Craig onion seedlings with scissors once they reach 4 inches in height. Maintain the seedlings at no taller than 4 inches until the average last frost date. Trimming makes the plants stockier and stronger.

2.Transplanting and Cultivation

1. Just before your area\'s average last frost date, prepare the onion bed by incorporating ample quantities of mature compost into the soil with a spading fork. Smooth the bed with a bar rake.

2. Create transplant drills with a Warren hoe, using the pointy arrow-shaped hoe tip to make straight line indentations in the surface of your prepared onion bed to a depth of approximately 1 inch. Place the rows about 18 inches apart.

3. Water the seedling trays well, then use a plastic spoon to lift and gently separate the Ailsa Craig seedlings. Place the root end of each seedling in the prepared drill about six inches apart and cover the roots with soil. Water-in the seedlings with a dilute solution of fish emulsion fertilizer, mixing the fertilizer with water to about half the strength of the manufacturer\'s directions.

4. Water the onion bed regularly through the growing season if there is not ample rainfall to keep the ground moist. Fertilize with fish emulsion fertilizer, mixed with water to the manufacturer\'s specifications, every three to four weeks.

3.Harvest

1. Stop watering and fertilizing the onions when the tops begin to bend over, usually around mid-August. Observe your onion bed until nearly all the tops have bent over.

2. On a dry sunny day, when the weather is predicted to remain free of rain for several days, use a spading fork to gently lift the rows of mature Ailsa Craig onions from the ground. Leave the onions lying for several days on the ground to dry off in the sun.

3. Gather up the harvested onions by hand, brushing off any dirt still clinging to them. Clip off leaves and roots with pruners, and place the onions in mesh bags or baskets.

4. Store the bags or baskets of onions in a cool, dry location. Ailsa Craig onions are sweet and juicy and do not store long, especially in warm temperatures, so plan on using them within six weeks of harvest.

Tips & Warnings

•The thick neck and teardrop shape of Ailsa Craig onions may contribute to an increased rate of rot in this variety. Make sure your harvested Ailsa Craig onions are well-cured in a dry location and distributed to market or used in cooking promptly, as they do not store long.

The seeds is factory packed in paper envelopes. Germinating power is tested, best before 12.2017. Envelope contents 0.2 g of seeds (approx. 40 - 65 seeds)

Shipping and handling:

Please ask me for a combined shipping before you pay!

The shipping price is:

1.99$ for the first item and 50% off (or 0.99$ per item) for each addional item when you are buying 5 packets or less of my seeds.

When you are buing more than 5 packets of my seeds the pricing on the shipping for the same order is:

- First item 1.99$;

- Four other 0.99$ each;

- And each additional above 5th packet is quoted for a free shipping.

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- U.S.A. and Canada – 3 – 6 weeks;

- The rest of the World – 5 – 8 weeks.

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