Growing Onions

Seed
Planting time:	SP,FA
Seeds per ounce:	8000
Ounces per square foot:	.002
Minimum legal germination rate:	70%
Germination type:	Short Germinating seeds

Notes Growing Onions in your garden is easy and it's one of the most important vegetables in the world. Your most success will come from starting onions sets. Growing from seeds in flats easy, but requires more patience. Onions can be used as green onions within 30 days if grown from sets; or 40 to 50 days if grown from seed. Onions are very adaptable when it comes to climate and is frost tolerant. Onions will perform better in cooler weather. A constant supply of moisture ensures success with Onions. Onions, as members of the allium family, are cousins of Garlic, Leeks, and Bunching Onions. They're biennials (grows for two years), growing the first year then blooming the second.

Planting
In garden spacing (inches):	4
In flat spacing (inches):	Broadcast
Planting depth (inches):	Cover seed with soil.
Maxiumum number of plants per square foot:	13
Nutrient relationship::	Light Feeder

Harvest
Days to maturity:	98-119
Harvesting period (days):	-
Minimum yields in pounds /square foot:	1

Cultural
Diseases:	Botrytis Leaf Blight, Damping-Off, Downy Mildew, Fusarium Basal Rot, Neck Rot, Onion Smut, Pink Root, Purple Blotch, Several Bacteria, White Rot
Insect pests:(Insect Pest Finder)	Army Cutworm, Cutworm, Green Peach Aphid, Greenhouse Whitefly, Leafminer, Northern Mole Cricket, Onion Eelworm, Onion Maggot, Onion Thrips, Saltmarsh Caterpillar, Slugs and Snails, Spotted Cucumber Beetle, Striped Cucumber Beetle, Vegetable Weevil

Varieties
Ailsa Craig Onion, Australian Brown Onion, Borettana Yellow Onion, Red Wethersfield Onion, Yellow Ebenezer, Yellow of Parma Onion, Yellow Sweet Spanish

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