Unwins Onion Japanese Hi Keeper Seeds produce mild flavoured onions with a hard yellow brown skin. Perfect for adding to a salad or cooking into one of your favourite dishes.

If left out to dry, these onions will keep well in storage during the winter months.

• Stores well
• Spring or Autumn sowing
• Hardy variety

Sowing Indoors
Almost fill a seed tray or modules with moist seed compost. Sow seeds thinly and cover with a little more compost. Place in the warmth, 15-20°C.

Growing On
Keep seedlings in a light position, but out of direct sunlight. When large enough to handle, transplant 5cm apart in to trays of potting compost.

Hardening Off/Planting Out

Gradually accustom plants to outside containers for 2-3 weeks before planting out to their cropping positions. Space plants 15cm apart with 30cm between rows.

Sowing Outdoors
Sow seeds thinly in a pre-watered shallow row, lightly covering with a little soil. Keep moist in dry spells.

Thinning
Thin seedlings to 15cm apart to allow full development of the bulbs.