Salad Onion Apache (Deep Purple) is an attractive deep purple-red skinned spring onion with a mild flavour and a crisp texture. The purple outer skin merges with the silver when peeled, adding a colour contrast to salads. Salad Onion Apache is ideal for growing in containers, or outdoors throughout the season. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.
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Sow seeds from March to August every 3 or 4 weeks. Sow seeds quite thickly in containers of multipurpose compost, or in broad drills outdoors for pulling as a spring/salad bunching onion. Sow 13mm (½in) deep, in drills 30 cm (12in) apart.
No need to thin seedlings.
Keep well watered.