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Scallions (White Lisbon) - Description
- Variety: White Lisbon Scallion Seeds (AKA Spring Onions)
- Packet Size: Approx. 500 Seeds
- Medium Sized Edible Green Foliage
- Mild Tasting Greens
- Excellent Mild Flavour
- Suitable for Over Wintering
Scallions (White Lisbon) - Sowing Instructions
- Sow: February until Mid July
- Alternatively sow in Autumn under cover for a Spring harvest
- Sow seeds every two weeks for a continual harvest
- Harvest
- Autumn sown - 30 weeks
- Spring sown - 12 weeks
- Choose an open sunny site
- Good drainage is essential
- Do not sow in a freshly manured site
- See how to grow tab for full growing instructions
Scallions (White Lisbon) - Uses
- Suitable for fresh market
- Prepack use
- Ideal for salads, sandwiches or chopped into mashed potatoes (Yum!)
Scallions (White Lisbon) - Advantages
- Extremely quick and easy to grow
- Crops in just 60 days
- Traditionally the most popular spring onion
- Great for salads & other cooking
- Generally pest free
- Low priced
- Great companion plant for carrots to deter pests like carrot fly
Index
- Sowing Instructions
- Crop Maintenance
- How to Harvest
- Storage
- Pests & Diseases
Sowing Instructions
- Sowing Time: From March until early summer
- Stagger sowing times for a continual harvest
- Sow in rows every two weeks
- Sowing Location: Sow direct into rows
- Can be sown under cover from Early February using a garden cloche or green house
- Some varieties can be sown outdoors in autumn & over wintered using a garden cloche
- To sow: Make drills 1cm deep & space drills 15cm apart
- Sow seeds very thinly & thin out once seedlings are large enough to handle
- Spacing is important. Close spacing for smaller onions and wider spacing for larger onions
Crop Maintenance
- Dispose of all thinings to avoid attracting the onion fly
- Water if the soil is dry and cover with soil
- Hoe regularly between the rows as weeds can grow quickly around onion plants
- A sunny, open site is ideal
- Soil should be light, and well drained while high in fertility, especailly nitrogen
- Prepare soil the previous season by working in some well rotted farm yard manure into your soil
- Remove any large and smaller stones, weeds and weed roots while preparing soil
- It is recommended that you perform a soil fertility test at least once
- Lime the soil if your soil is acidic, use carbonate of lime, and apply approx 150g per metre squared
- Keep the soil weed free
- Apply a general fertilizer such as grow more or poultry manure
- Apply approx 35g of fertilizer per metre squared and rake into surface soil
- If your soil is a heavy clay, it is recommended that you improve your soils drainage
- Alternatively place a small amount of horticultural grit beneath seeds prior to sowing
Harvesting your Spring Onion Crops
- Quick to mature, scallions can be ready for harvest three months after sowing
- Harvest when leaves are deep green and standing upright
- You can first harvest the leaves by removing with a scissors. Remove only one leaf per plant at a time and the bulb will continue grow
- You can later harvest the entire plant by lifting the bulbs using a garden fork
- Be careful when lifting as pulling one bulb will generally bring the surrounding bulbs with it
- Spring onions can be eating directly after harvest
How to Store Spring Onions & Scallions
- Consume any damaged bulbs first
- Short term storage in the fridge
- Can be stored for up to 7 months in a cool dry place
- You can also tie up your bulbs using their own stems or some cord
Pests & Diseases
- Bird attack is most likely the biggest threat to spring onions
- Netting should be used to protect against birds that pull up roots
- Other pests and diseases include: Onion fly, root fly, bolting and downy mildew
- Plant spring onions near carrots to repel the carrot fly
- Plant spring onions near tomatoes
Note: We don't ship plants on Fridays due to the extended period they would remain without light & water
Shipping Options & Rates
FOR IRELAND & NORTHERN IRELAND
Standard Delivery on Plant Orders currently taking 6 working days
- Currently Plant orders are taking 6 working days to ship
- If you choose express we will fast track your plant order
- Standard Courier Delivery With Fastway (5-7 Working Days)
- Cost is €4.95 on Orders Below €75
- Free Delivery on Orders Above €75
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- Express Courier Delivery With Fastway (1-2 Working Days)
- Cost is €5 extra for express delivery
- This service guarantees that any order placed before 4pm will ship from our depot the same day on the next day delivery service *
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- Express Delivery With DPD (1-2 Working Days)
- Cost is €11.45 for orders below €75
- Cost is €6.50 for orders above €75
- This service guarantees that any order placed before 4pm will ship from our depot the same day on the next day delivery service *
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- This services comes with email tracking
- 'Seed' Postal Delivery Option ***
- Cost is €2 - Packet of Seeds ONLY Orders
- Note: Does Not Apply to Seed Potatoes, Bulbs or Sets ***
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- This is a non-trackable service
MAINLAND ENGLAND & SCOTLAND & WALES (Currently Unavailable Due to Brexit)
- Standard International Courier
- Cost is €10
- UK shipping fee covers parcels up to a total weight of 20Kg
WESTERN EUROPE & WORLDWIDE
- Standard International Courier
- Delivery rates vary, please see chart below
- Note: There is no free delivery for Western Europe Deliveries
Bulk Bags & Large Item Pallet Deliveries
- Bulk bags & large orders are shipped via pallet couriers on a rigid lorry
- Delivery is to kerbside only
- If road access to your site is tight, then please advise us before purchasing
- Please Note: We cannot guarantee next day delivery on pallet deliveries
- Also, we cannot guarantee delivery on a specific day (Please allow 1-3 days for delivery)
- It's always best to order well in advance to avoid disappointment
- Cancellation of pallets when items are already in transit will incur a 40 euro per pallet cancellation fee (To cover return delivery costs)
- Where pallet delivery can not be made due to site access, a 40 euro per pallet cancellation fee will apply (To cover return delivery costs)
International Delivery Prices & Times
- Please note max weights below, heavier orders may require additional payment
- We will contact you to discuss, if max weight of order exceeded
Terms
- The shipping fee is fixed for an order, regardless of the number of items bought
- All courier orders require signed proof of delivery & the customer must be contactable by phone
- We do not offer a weekend delivery service (Mon-Fri Only excl. Bank Holidays)
- * Our courier achieves a 98% success rate on next day deliveries
- Once your parcel is shipped it will be placed on works courier's next day delivery service
- ** Seed postal option applies to seed ONLY orders & is available in all 32 counties of Ireland
- *** Does not apply to seed potatoes, bulbs or sets
