Rose de Keruel
Rose de Keruel is a large, pink-bronze coloured onion. Very uniform, upright foliage of intermediate vigour. Early maturing, productive, very uniform. Stores very well, rose tinted flesh, visually very appealing. Relatively sweet, minimal acridity. Good flavour.
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Characteristics
Botanical name: Allium cepa
Cultivation
Seed germination temperature: ca. 20 °CPlanting distance: direct sowing 25-30 x 2.5 cm
planting ca. 30 x 30 cm; Spring onions: 20 x 20 cm, 1 plant/soil blockOptimal amount of plants: 80-100 plants/m²; 10-12 soil block/m²; Spring onions: 25 plants/m²Sowing depth: ca. 2 cmAmount of seed needed: ca. 50 g/a; ca. 40 seeds per running metre
bred by

Silke Wedemeyer
Current breeding location: Sudershausen, Niedersachsen
Biodynamically bred varieties from Silke Wedemeyer:
onion Rose de Keruel, florence fennel Sampo, tomatoe Trixi, Goldiana and Bellarubin

increasingly from

Biologischer Gartenbau Wedemeyer / Silke Wedemeyer
The Biologischer Gartenbau Wedemeyer is located in the Göttingen area, in Sudershausen. Silke Wedemeyer propagates seeds and breeds new varieties using biodynamic methods within the Kultursaat e.V. association.

Gärtnerei der Lebensgemeinschaft Bingenheim
The farm of the Lebensgemeinschaft Bingenheim is located in the direct neighbourhood of the Bingenheimer Saatgut AG, also in Echzell-Bingenheim, in the Wetterau region at the transition to the basalt ridge of the Vogelsberg. It operates on biodynamic principles, growing vegetables and producing seeds.
Annegret Rose
Our partner farm Rose Saatzucht is located in the north of Erfurt. There, Annegret Rose has been passionately growing and propagating her impressively beautiful peonies for many years. Before a root can be lifted for sale, the perennial grows in her fields for around 6-7 years. Since 1993, the traditional farm has been cultivating a wide variety of over 200 different types of vegetables, herbs and flowers under Demeter guidelines for seed production.