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jtjmartin · April 30, 2017

I bought Candy onion seed from Park and planted them in January - I missed the smell of potting soil in the winter and couldn't bring myself to pay the Dixondale price for plants. I used to just get the sets from Walmart . . . which were the wrong onions for an intermediate day state!

For the first year, I planted the right kind of onions.

I ran across some Candy red plants in Harrisonburg and picked them up. They had suffered through some pretty cold temps but are starting to put on some heft.

I'll go with seed again this next year. The seed can be planted when nothing else is growing and the plants planted out way before the warm weather seedlings need any attention.

April 30, 2017	#45
jtjmartin Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2016 Location: Williamsburg VA Zone 7b Posts: 1,110	I bought Candy onion seed from Park and planted them in January - I missed the smell of potting soil in the winter and couldn't bring myself to pay the Dixondale price for plants. I used to just get the sets from Walmart . . . which were the wrong onions for an intermediate day state! For the first year, I planted the right kind of onions. I ran across some Candy red plants in Harrisonburg and picked them up. They had suffered through some pretty cold temps but are starting to put on some heft. I'll go with seed again this next year. The seed can be planted when nothing else is growing and the plants planted out way before the warm weather seedlings need any attention.