ONION YELLOW SWEET SPANISH UTAH - SEED

Description
Sweet Spanish Utah Onion Seeds (Large Globe Type) 1860. Our best large onion – globular in shape with a mild, sweet taste. The flesh is firm, clear and tender. Under ideal conditions, these onions will weigh over 1 kg (2.2 lbs) at harvest. Irrigation is often needed to maintain full bulb development. Light cultivation between rows through the season is essential to reduce competition from weeds.

How to Grow
280 seed/gram. Seed can be started indoors in a soil-less growing medium in February. The seedlings can then be transplanted outside later in spring. Seed can also be sown directly outdoors from mid April, 8-15 mm (1/4-1/2″) deep and 15 mm (1/2″) apart in rows 30 cm (12″) apart. Thin to 5 cm (3″) apart for cooking onions, and 7.5 cm (3″) apart for the sweet Spanish types. Onions do best in a sunny site with fertile, well drained soil. Bend over any flower stalks that start to grow so the plant’s energy goes into building the bulb. One packet sows approximately 6 m (20’) of row.

LIFECYCLE
Biennial Harvested as an Annual

PROPAGATION
Start Indoors for an Earlier Crop or Sow Direct

DAYS TO EMERGENCE
21

LIGHT
Full Sun

GROWTH HABIT
Root Crop

FROST TOLERANCE
Frost Hardy

DAYS TO HARVEST
110

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY
Easy

HERITAGE
Open Pollinated

FAMILY NAME
Alliaceae

LATIN
Allium cepa