If you want an assortment of long-day varieties but don’t have space for a hundred of each, try this package deal.
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② Family-owned companies or cooperatives, domestic and foreign
If you want an assortment of long-day varieties but don’t have space for a hundred of each, try this package deal.
Supplier Transparency:
② Family-owned companies or cooperatives, domestic and foreign
This item will drop-ship via USPS directly from our supplier according to your planting zone (please see below). If you would like to request a different shipping week than the one recommended for your zone, you can do that at checkout.
Allium cepa Onion plants are drop-shipped by Priority Mail directly from our Texas supplier, so shipments can arrive from January through April according to your planting zone (see chart). You may also request a shipping week when placing your order.
Onions are dug as live plants from the field; shipping schedule may change due to weather conditions or other variables. You will be notified via email when your order has shipped.
area | timing |
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Zones 10, 9, 8 | starting in mid-January |
Zone 7 | starting in mid-February |
Zone 6 | starting in early March |
Zone 5 | starting in early April |
Zones 4, 3, 2 | starting in mid-April |
Remove plants from the box immediately! They may seem a little peaked from travel, but don’t fret! Plant them in the ground as soon as possible, watering well. If you can’t plant immediately, unbundle the plants and heel them into some moist potting medium in a seedling tray, or wrap the roots in damp paper towels and wrap loosely in plastic. After planting, keep onion plants well watered and well weeded, and you’ll be rewarded!
Planting instructions (for conventional growing) will arrive with your shipment. As always, a professional soil test should guide your fertilization program. Onions are particularly sensitive to deficiencies in calcium and sulfur, and require steady nitrogen availability through the season. Band a balanced slow-release fertilizer like soybean meal or NutriVeg into your planting row at 2 lbs per 100 row feet, or a couple teaspoons per transplant hole. Water seedlings in well with fish hydrolysate with kelp (diluted at 2 oz per gallon water). Repeat the fish/kelp fertigation or side-dress with a readily available N source like blood meal several times throughout the season.
All the varieties we list are suitable for northern growers. If you live farther south, note our latitude specifications at the end of each description.
About 200-250 seeds/g, 5,700-7,000 seeds/oz.
Shallow rooted, onion require rich weed-free soil and consistent water. All other factors being equal, onions grown from seedlings will grow bigger and resist disease better than set-grown onions.
Note: Onion seed is short-lived. Retest 1-year-old seed before using. Discard anything older.