New Onion Bed.

[lrussillo]

Granex are sweet and don't keep well. Travel under a lot of names--Videlias are Granex grown in Videlia, Ga. But I also get granex in the stores here that are grown in Mexico and Peru. Aside from the Italian red torpedoes I grow, they are the only ones I eat.

[Worth1]

I love granex onions don't last lone with me anyway.
Worth

[Stvrob]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I can get the 1015's these were around before the 1015Y onions came out.
I remember back in the 80's when they had it on the news about the 1015Y onions.
They named the 1015Y onion because I think they sowed the seeds on October the 15th and the Y stands for yellow.


The ones I am talking about are the size of or bigger than a soft ball.
Maybe the granex.


Worth

There is a real big one called Texas Legend. They can get up to 6" diameter!

http://www.dixondalefarms.com/produc...ort_day_onions
http://cdn.dixondalefarms.com/images...sLegend_lg.jpg

[lrussillo]

Try these--they are terrific--you can eat them when they are young and when they are mature.

http://www.growitalian.com/onion-lun...firenze-42-23/

[Worth1]

Well on my onion search I purchased some seeds for next fall.
What I got was.
Texas Grano, Short day.
Red Burgundy, Short day.
Sweet Spanish Yellow Utah Jumbo, Long day I read on garden web that they got huge at the same latitude as Mexico city but refused to seed.
Granex Yellow, Short day.

I got 4 packages of seeds each.
This will be my first time growing onions from seeds and am looking forward to the experience.

I also have a nice plot of space in the back that would be perfect to grow even more onions and shallots.

It was a garden at one time and I let it lay fallow for a few years.
The soil is unbelievably rich and would be a great place for onions.

The plan is to set my tiller on shallow cultivate and just skim off the top.
Skip a path and do it again.
Plant my onions put out the drip lines and mulch.
The radishes I grew there were very good and mild so the onions should be the same.

Worth

[Stvrob]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Well on my onion search I purchased some seeds for next fall.
What I got was.
Texas Grano, Short day.
Red Burgundy, Short day.
Sweet Spanish Yellow Utah Jumbo, Long day I read on garden web that they got huge at the same latitude as Mexico city but refused to seed.
Granex Yellow, Short day.

I got 4 packages of seeds each.
This will be my first time growing onions from seeds and am looking forward to the experience.

I also have a nice plot of space in the back that would be perfect to grow even more onions and shallots.

It was a garden at one time and I let it lay fallow for a few years.
The soil is unbelievably rich and would be a great place for onions.

The plan is to set my tiller on shallow cultivate and just skim off the top.
Skip a path and do it again.
Plant my onions put out the drip lines and mulch.
The radishes I grew there were very good and mild so the onions should be the same.

Worth

I suspect you will find that onions grow great in your climate. Where I live they are far easier to grow than tomatoes. And they are either completely resistant to nematodes, or the nematodes are inactive during the time of year they are growing.