Kyoto Market Bunching Spring Onion
Alium Fistulosum
Story: This hardy fast growing spring onion is a favourite of market gardeners and home growers alike for its sweet, mild flavour and quick time to harvest from seed (roughly eighty days) - they thrive in cool weather and have a smooth white-bright green gradient, growing uniformly. Known to be cultivated since the 1800s in Kyoto gardens in Japan. Fantastic to sow in successions to harvest for a long period, they tolerate cool weather well and are useful to fill in gaps between main crops in the garden.
When to sow: From late February indoors in modules to plant outdoors after signs of frost have passed.
Requirements: Nutrient-rich soil, regular watering, a lot of sun and some support if seed saving.
When to harvest for food: Harvest as needed at any age by cutting leaves with scissors or wait till mature and pull whole spring onions, root and all, to use as a vegetable.
When to harvest for seed saving: Wait for flower heads to fully dry on the plant and become papery and the small black seeds fully visible before clipping from plant into brown paper bags or containers.
Seed contributors: Omved Gardens
Isolation Needed: No
Saving Seed:
Number of plants to save seeds from: five plants minimum, ten or more is ideal
Pollination: Self pollinated
How to send seed back: Please label all seed with variety, type, date and your contact. If you didn't get a chance to fill out our online data collection form, you can also send us a few lines about how it grew for you/flavour etc. Please aim to send back 1 tablespoon of dried seed or more so that we can continue to share with network members. Send to: The Seed Saving Network, Omved Gardens, 1 Townsend Yard, N6 5JF.
Please remember, if you’re an individual grower you can order up to 4 packets of seeds. If you order more than this, you will receive just three packs to begin with. This is to ensure we get plenty of data in return and to keep our stocks sustainable for years to come.*
*Community groups and Experienced Growers can order larger quantities, please email us if this is the case.
If an item is out of stock we will send a close alternative.
