(Garden Onion, Utah Jumbo, Yellow Onion)

The large, yellow onion, ‘Spanish Sweet Yellow’, has a crisp texture and mild flavor. It stores well and is good eaten raw or cooked. It’s a long-day onion that grows well in northern regions and is ready to harvest in 112 days after planting.Most sweet onions are poor keepers but this cultivar stores moderately well.

The garden onion is a biennial or perennial widely grown as an annual vegetable. This variety produces a dense upright cluster of hollow pale green leaves that rise from a yellow,...

(Garden Onion, White Onion)

Fresh grown onions just taste better. These popular vegetables come in many shapes and colors and are quite easy to grow if you have good, friable soil and lots of sun.

The onion is a perennial that’s grown as an annual root vegetable. Unknown in the wild, Allium cepa may descend from several species found across Central Asian to include Allium oschaninii, Allium praemixtum, Allium vavilovii, Allium pskemense,...

(Garden Onion, Sweet Yellow Onion)

This disease-resistant "super-sweet" onion is one of several developed for Texas commercial growers by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Weslaco. It is among the most widely grown and sold onion varieties in the United States.

The garden onion is a herbaceous biennial commonly grown as an annual vegetable. Pale hollow green leaves and long flower stems arise from bulbs with papery outer coverings. This variety develops spherical, yellow-skinned, softball-sized onions that keep well...

(Garden Onion, Sweet Onion, Vidalia Onion)

The garden onion is a biennial widely grown as a vegetable. Pale hollow green leaves and long flower stems that sometimes have bulbils rather than flowers arise from bulbs with papery outer coverings. Vidalia onions are yellow, sweet-flavored onions grown in the vicinity of Vidalia, Georgia.

Garden onions are categorized by the day length at which they form bulbs. Vidalia onions require short days (10 to 12 hours) to form plump bulbs. They are thus usually planted in fall or early winter, for...

(Garden Onion, Yellow Oniont Onion)

The garden onion is a biennial widely grown as a vegetable. Pale hollow green leaves and long flower stems that sometimes have bulbils rather than flowers arise from bulbs with papery outer coverings. The cultivar 'Walla Walla' produces white, sweet, juicy onions with light brown coverings.

Garden onions are categorized by the day length at which they form bulbs. This cultivar requires the long days (14 hours or more) of the upper latitudes. It can also be planted in fall, overwintered, and harvested...

(Garden Onion, White Onion)

The garden onion is a biennial widely grown as a vegetable. Pale hollow green leaves and long flower stems that sometimes have bulbils rather than flowers arise from bulbs with papery outer coverings. The cultivar ‘White Ebenezer’ produces flattish white onions with a slightly pungent flavor.

Garden onions are categorized by the day length at which they form bulbs. This cultivar requires the long days (14 hours or more) of the upper latitudes. It stores moderately well.

Garden onions require...

(Bunching Onion)

Fresh grown onions just taste better. These popular vegetables come in many shapes and colors and are quite easy to grow if you have good, friable soil and lots of sun.

The onion is a perennial that’s grown as an annual root vegetable. Unknown in the wild, Allium cepa may descend from several species found across Central Asian to include Allium oschaninii, Allium praemixtum, Allium vavilovii, Allium pskemense,...

(Garden Onion, Yellow Onion)

The garden onion is a biennial widely grown as a vegetable. Pale hollow green leaves and long flower stems that sometimes have bulbils rather than flowers arise from bulbs with papery outer coverings. The cultivar ‘Yellow Stuttgarter’ is a deep yellow onion with pale yellow flesh. It has a strong flavor when eaten raw, but cooking reduces its potency.

Garden onions are categorized according to the day length at which they form bulbs. This cultivar requires the long days (14 hours or more) of...

(Scallion, Shallot)

Onions in the Aggregatum Group produce numerous small bulbs rather than a single large bulb. Like other varieties of garden onion (known collectively as Allium cepa), they are biennials that originated in Central Asia but that are unknown in the wild.

The pale- to mid-green, hollow, awl-shaped leaves of these onions arise from clusters of small papery-coated bulbs. Some varieties produce globular heads of greenish-white flowers on upright stems in the summer of their second year. Hot...

(Egyptian Onion)

The outlandish "flower heads" of Egyptian onion contain bulbs instead of blooms. Like other varieties of garden onion (known collectively as Allium cepa), they are biennials that originated in Central Asia but that are unknown in the wild.

The pale- to mid-green, hollow, awl-shaped leaves of Egyptian onion arise from a large, papery-coated bulb. In summer, spherical clusters of small bulbs ("bulbils") are borne atop tall stems. The clusters may also include a scattering of small yellowish-white...