NIKA SEEDS - Vegetable Welsh Onion Red - 300 Seeds

 Welsh Onion Red  Welsh onions also are known as bunching onion, green onion, spring onion, scallion, escallion, and salad onion. The Red Welsh is an old form of the perennial bunching onion with very decorative red stalks and a slightly stronger flavored than the white variety. It is also slightly hardier. It is distinguished from the bulb onion by its round hollow leaves and only slight bulb formation.    Planting instructions:  To start onion seedlings indoors in February or March, fill a container nearly to the top with a seed starting mix and then make two furrows, about 1/2-inch deep, for the onion seeds. Sprinkle seeds in the furrows and cover them lightly with more soil mix. Keep the container in a warm place. Once the onion seeds germinate, keep the young plants in a sunny south window. Keep the seedlings short and stocky by cutting the top inch or so of growth once or twice. In late April or early May, make a furrow in the garden. Tip the mass of onion seedlings out of its container. (Newspaper on the bottom of this container kept the seed starting mix from being washed out the drainage holes). Very gently separate groups of four seedlings and, holding them lightly enough that you don't crush the tops, transplant them into the prepared furrow, covering the exposed roots immediately with soil. Transplanting onions in groups of four makes weeding easier. Onions growing in the spring. Keep weeds hoed when they are small, like those in this photo, because onions don't compete well with weeds, and removing larger weeds can disrupt the shallow root systems of onions.