Onion Plants

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All varieties are supplied with easy-to-follow growing hints and instructions and when you receive your plants, we advise you unpack them immediately, watering them if dry.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-11-03T00:54:12+00:00","created_at":"2023-05-17T20:02:04+01:00","vendor":"Mr Fothergill's","type":"VEGETABLE PLANTS","tags":["Collection:all products (excluding drop ship HARDWARE)","Collection:MRF all products exc all hardware","Collection:Onion Plants","Collection:Vegetable Plants","harvest:april","harvest:march","harvest:may","plant type:vegetable","product family:onion","product family:vegetable","product family:vegetable plants","product type:young plants","sow outdoors:november","sow outdoors:october"],"price":895,"price_min":895,"price_max":895,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":895,"compare_at_price_min":895,"compare_at_price_max":895,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":45385987850551,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"55919","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Onion (Salad) Winter Hardy Starlight Veg Plants","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":895,"weight":10,"compare_at_price":895,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/mr-fothergills.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ONI-085z_596a04ed-99e7-4ebc-9fcd-1fb44d45ceae.jpg?v=1757890589"],"featured_image":"\/\/mr-fothergills.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ONI-085z_596a04ed-99e7-4ebc-9fcd-1fb44d45ceae.jpg?v=1757890589","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Onion (Salad) Winter Hardy Starlight Veg Plants","id":63938866872698,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":800,"width":800,"src":"\/\/mr-fothergills.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ONI-085z_596a04ed-99e7-4ebc-9fcd-1fb44d45ceae.jpg?v=1757890589"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":800,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/mr-fothergills.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ONI-085z_596a04ed-99e7-4ebc-9fcd-1fb44d45ceae.jpg?v=1757890589","width":800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eAn upright and very vigorous variety which is well suited for overwintering, Starlight has a distinctive upright dark green leaf and with better winter hardiness than the Lisbon types.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrown by experienced nurserymen, our plants are grown to exacting standards and will be delivered at the right time for growing in their final positions in your garden or plot.  Hand graded and packed, they are sent direct from the nursery and are hardened off where necessary. All varieties are supplied with easy-to-follow growing hints and instructions and when you receive your plants, we advise you unpack them immediately, watering them if dry.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":8335173910839,"title":"Onion Element Plants","handle":"onion-element-plants","description":"\u003cp\u003eElement is a hardy, Japanese onion and a resilient variety for autumn planting. Get a head start with these muli-sown, module grown plants compared to autumn planting onion sets, needing less light that other plants these will grow through the short days of winter and early spring to provide the first onions of the year to make it fresh to the kitchen! A hybrid variety producing lots of large, crisp round onions with a lovely flavour. As their growing season is the opposite to many other crops, they don’t take up space in summer when you want to leave room for more tender veg, so they’re a great crop to give space over to in winter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur onion plants are module grown and raised under expert growing conditions in our nursery. They are QC checked and hand packed and wrapped prior to despatch.  This variety is multi-sown into each module cell so you will receive several 'extra' plants.  Some people prefer to plant the module (with several plants in each) as it is...the bulbs will grow smaller but they are just as tasty!  Some gardeners prefer to tease apart and separate out to individual plants, carefully grow on and plant out individually getting larger onion bulbs at harvest time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur young vegetable plants make it easy to grow your own fresh, tasty produce, and they’re ideal if you have limited time or facilities. To ensure they are of the highest quality, we grow all our young plants to exacting standards, they are then delivered at exactly the right time for you to pot up or grow on.  All top quality varieties trialled and tested by us and professionally grown, delivered for your convenience with a complete, easy-to-understand growing guide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-11-03T00:50:51+00:00","created_at":"2023-05-17T19:38:28+01:00","vendor":"Mr Fothergill's","type":"VEGETABLE PLANTS","tags":["Collection:all products (excluding drop ship HARDWARE)","Collection:MRF all products exc all hardware","Collection:Onion Plants","Collection:Vegetable Plants","harvest:july","harvest:june","plant type:vegetable","product family:onion","product family:vegetable","product family:vegetable plants","product type:young plants","sow outdoors:september"],"price":895,"price_min":895,"price_max":895,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":895,"compare_at_price_min":895,"compare_at_price_max":895,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":45385719677239,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"54715","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Onion Element Plants","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":895,"weight":240,"compare_at_price":895,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/mr-fothergills.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ONI-082z_899077f9-5d62-4231-8e98-1d767626291c.jpg?v=1757888058"],"featured_image":"\/\/mr-fothergills.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ONI-082z_899077f9-5d62-4231-8e98-1d767626291c.jpg?v=1757888058","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Onion Element Plants","id":63939659759994,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":800,"width":800,"src":"\/\/mr-fothergills.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ONI-082z_899077f9-5d62-4231-8e98-1d767626291c.jpg?v=1757888058"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":800,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/mr-fothergills.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/files\/ONI-082z_899077f9-5d62-4231-8e98-1d767626291c.jpg?v=1757888058","width":800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eElement is a hardy, Japanese onion and a resilient variety for autumn planting. Get a head start with these muli-sown, module grown plants compared to autumn planting onion sets, needing less light that other plants these will grow through the short days of winter and early spring to provide the first onions of the year to make it fresh to the kitchen! A hybrid variety producing lots of large, crisp round onions with a lovely flavour. As their growing season is the opposite to many other crops, they don’t take up space in summer when you want to leave room for more tender veg, so they’re a great crop to give space over to in winter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur onion plants are module grown and raised under expert growing conditions in our nursery. They are QC checked and hand packed and wrapped prior to despatch.  This variety is multi-sown into each module cell so you will receive several 'extra' plants.  Some people prefer to plant the module (with several plants in each) as it is...the bulbs will grow smaller but they are just as tasty!  Some gardeners prefer to tease apart and separate out to individual plants, carefully grow on and plant out individually getting larger onion bulbs at harvest time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur young vegetable plants make it easy to grow your own fresh, tasty produce, and they’re ideal if you have limited time or facilities. To ensure they are of the highest quality, we grow all our young plants to exacting standards, they are then delivered at exactly the right time for you to pot up or grow on.  All top quality varieties trialled and tested by us and professionally grown, delivered for your convenience with a complete, easy-to-understand growing guide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}]