Bunching Onion Ishikura

Bunching Onion Ishikura is a outstanding variety with excellent flavoured, long slender white stalks. They are very easy to grow from seed, extremely hardy and pest resistant and will grow from cold, wet regions right through to hot, tropical areas.

This extremely versatile crop and can be harvested at any point of growth. The leaves can be snipped for use in salads or the whole plant can be pulled up. Pencil-thin stems can be used as spring onions or left to grow as thick as a carrot without losing their flavour.

The bunching onion is a very popular cultivated vegetable and an important ingredient in Asian cuisine. It is used in stir-fry’s, miso soup and in takoyaki dumpling dish, among others.

It has a mild, sweet flavour and is strongly reminiscent to the scallion or welsh onion, once grown it is similar to the leek in appearance.

It is a useful addition to a vegetable plot or herb garden and once established they tend to look after themselves.

The flowers are attractive to bees, while the whole plant is an effective insect repellent. This is one vegetable that you would never regret growing – no matter where you are in the world.

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