Days to maturity: 85 days
Grow delicious white onions from these high-quality sets! White onions are dense, round, tender, and succulent, with papery white wrappers and ivory skin. Somewhat milder than their yellow cousins, they are excellent for cooking as well as for use in salsas and sauces.
Far and away the easiest and best way to grow your onions, "sets" are small bulbs that are planted in earliest spring and grow into full-sized onions by summer's end. They are simple to plant and cultivate, costing far less than plants and taking much less time and trouble than seeds. If you're trying to decide just how to grow your onions, bear in mind that most seasoned gardeners rely on sets!
This pack of 80 sets is enough to broadcast over the entire vegetable patch or other sunny area. Unlike most bulbs, onion sets do not have to be placed in the soil at any particular angle -- there is no "right side up." So you can plant them beneath a half- to one-inch of soil at 4-inch intervals (in rows that are 1 to 2 feet apart), or you can broadcast them, cover them with a bit of soil, and thin the results later! Easy peasy.
Sow the sets about 4 weeks before the last spring frost date for your area; the plants are hardy to 20 degrees F or even less. To grow large, healthy onions, they need very well-worked, enriched soil, and should be fed and watered regularly throughout the growing process. Keep weeds to a minimum to retain soil moisture by mulching between the plants, if possible.
The onions are ready to harvest when the tops turn brown and begin to fall over. If you need to harvest a bit sooner, bend the tops over to encourage the finishing process. Carefully dig around the bulb (the top of which should be visible above the soil) and let them lie exposed for several days before removing. Dry and store in a cool, dark place. White onions store for many weeks.
Cannot ship to OR, WA, or ID.
Pack of 80 sets.
This 20 inch tall plant is grown for its edible, enlarged, bulbous, underground portion which may be white, red, or yellow in color. The narrow foliage is light green and is very strong smelling. Harvest the bulbs when the leaves begin to fall over and the bulbs are easily pulled from the ground. If there is resistance, the roots are still actively growing and the onion should not be harvested. Hasten maturity by removing the tops and look to be able to harvest the bulbs in a week. Eat them fresh or dry them for storage
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Days to maturity: 85 days
Grow delicious white onions from these high-quality sets! White onions are dense, round, tender, and succulent, with papery white wrappers and ivory skin. Somewhat milder than their yellow cousins, they are excellent for cooking as well as for use in salsas and sauces.
Far and away the easiest and best way to grow your onions, "sets" are small bulbs that are planted in earliest spring and grow into full-sized onions by summer's end. They are simple to plant and cultivate, costing far less than plants and taking much less time and trouble than seeds. If you're trying to decide just how to grow your onions, bear in mind that most seasoned gardeners rely on sets!
This pack of 80 sets is enough to broadcast over the entire vegetable patch or other sunny area. Unlike most bulbs, onion sets do not have to be placed in the soil at any particular angle -- there is no "right side up." So you can plant them beneath a half- to one-inch of soil at 4-inch intervals (in rows that are 1 to 2 feet apart), or you can broadcast them, cover them with a bit of soil, and thin the results later! Easy peasy.
Sow the sets about 4 weeks before the last spring frost date for your area; the plants are hardy to 20 degrees F or even less. To grow large, healthy onions, they need very well-worked, enriched soil, and should be fed and watered regularly throughout the growing process. Keep weeds to a minimum to retain soil moisture by mulching between the plants, if possible.
The onions are ready to harvest when the tops turn brown and begin to fall over. If you need to harvest a bit sooner, bend the tops over to encourage the finishing process. Carefully dig around the bulb (the top of which should be visible above the soil) and let them lie exposed for several days before removing. Dry and store in a cool, dark place. White onions store for many weeks.
Cannot ship to OR, WA, or ID.
Pack of 80 sets.
This 20 inch tall plant is grown for its edible, enlarged, bulbous, underground portion which may be white, red, or yellow in color. The narrow foliage is light green and is very strong smelling. Harvest the bulbs when the leaves begin to fall over and the bulbs are easily pulled from the ground. If there is resistance, the roots are still actively growing and the onion should not be harvested. Hasten maturity by removing the tops and look to be able to harvest the bulbs in a week. Eat them fresh or dry them for storage
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.