Onion Sets

[ivor.davies40@virgin]

Can anyone tell me how onion sets are produced? I believe they are produced on the seed head somehow but I have not been able to find any info in my gardening books

[Lesley Jay]

Hi Ivor and welcome!

Onion sets are specifically grown from onion seeds and are immature onions. The tree onion produces small bulbils instead of a seed head and if left the bulbils fall over and root in the ground producing a new plant the following year. The bulbils can also be used in cooking.

[malcolmx]

as lesley says sets are grown from seed but they are then subject to a special heat treatment to allow them to be stored and transported you or i cannot replicate this