Onions & Shallots

110 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Candy Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of jumbo-sized yellow onions. They grow bigger than softballs. Onions are incredibly sweet and mild. It can be successfully grown anywhere, in the North, East, South, Midwest, and West. It can be enjoyed late into winter if the bulbs are properly cured and stored in a cool, dry area. This is a good keeper and stores for months. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. A variety from the USA.

85 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Chianti Onion. The plant produces high yields of red onions. It is a popular short-day red onion variety prized for producing large, uniform, deep red bulbs with excellent interior color, mild sweet flavor, crisp texture, and good storage potential, typically 2 to 3 months. This is one of the sweetest red onions available. Perfect for soups, salads, slicing, and cooking. Similar to the Red Grano onions, but more disease-resistant. Excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, open field production, and commercial production. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR, S. 

95 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Crystal White Wax Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of small white pearl onions. The classic Cocktail Onion. Perfect for pickling or cocktails. Also great for sandwiches, stews, and soups. Pick when onions are 1 to 1 ½" in diameter. Suitable for Southern regions of the country, especially Texas and Southern California. An excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546166. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short day variety.

100 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Early White Grano Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of white onions. They are mild and very flavorful. Perfect for soups, salads, and cooking. Slow bolting. An excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546094. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short stay variety.

180 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Eclipse Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of white pearl onions. They are crisp, mild, and very flavorful. Perfect for soups, salads, pickling, and cooking. Relatively free from bolting and splitting. An excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546138. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short stay variety.

120 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Evergreen White Bunching Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of bunching onions. It has white shanks and white skin, making it a very attractive scallion for gourmet dishes. Perfect for salads and garnishes. Slow to bolt. Hardy plants winter over for the spring crop. May be handled as a perennial by dividing the clumps in the second summer to produce a new crop. This variety is exclusively grown for green bunching onions. Suitable for both Northern and Southern regions. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546250. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR S, TH.

85 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Georgia Boy Improved Onion. The plant produces good yields of extra-large 5" diameter yellow onions. It is a popular short-day yellow onion variety, particularly favored in the southern U.S., like Georgia, for producing large sweet onions similar to Vidalia types. This is one of the sweetest onions available. Excellent for salads, slicing, and cooking. Very similar to the famous Vidalia onions grown in Georgia. This onion was highly favored in University of Georgia trials. Excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, open field production, and commercial production. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. 

95 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Giant Red Hamburger Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of ruby red onions. The Onion is very crisp and flavorful. Perfect for hamburgers, salads, and sandwiches. Excellent choice for home gardens. A variety from the USA. A short day variety.

12 to 14 days. Brassica oleracea. Open Pollinated. Onion Sprouting Seeds. The plant produces high-quality onion sprouts. It is used to grow nutritious onion sprouts or microgreens. They have a mild, sweet-oniony flavor, less pungent than mature onions, and are rich in vitamins A and C, calcium, iron, and fiber. They are popular for home sprouting because they’re fast-growing, flavorful, and easy to add to salads, sandwiches, wraps, or as garnishes. Excellent in salads and other Asian dishes. One tablespoon of seed yields approximately 1 ½ to 2 cups of sprouts. A variety from the USA.

104 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Patterson Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of 3 to 4" wide yellow onions. Onions are incredibly sweet and mild. The bulbs have dark yellow skin, thin necks, and white flesh. Great for fresh eating and cooking. It is one of the longest storing onions available. It can be enjoyed late into winter if the bulbs are properly cured and stored in a cool, dry area. Bulbs dry quickly. This is a good keeper and stores up to 10 to 12 months. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. A variety from the USA. Long Day Onion. 

110+ days. Allium cepa. (F1) Phantom Onion. The plant produces high yields of jumbo size white onions. The onions are very flavorful. Great for cooking, salads, soups, and stews. Stores well after harvesting. Heat Tolerant. An excellent choice for home gardens, farmer’s markets, market growers, open production, and commercial production. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short day variety.

60 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Purplette Onion. This early-maturing plant produces excellent yields of small burgundy onions. It is a popular short-day miniature onion variety known for its attractive glossy burgundy-to-purple skin with small, round bulbs. Best when harvested very young, as bunching onions, or when golf ball-sized. The onion is a glossy, rich burgundy color, changing to a pastel pink color when cooked or pickled. Perfect in cooked dishes, salads, and pickled. An excellent choice for home gardens and specialty market growers. A variety from the USA. 

114 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Red Bull Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of large red onions. It has deep red skins and interior red rings. Great for salads, hamburgers, and sandwiches. Stores well. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. A variety from the USA. A long day variety.

100 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Red Burgundy Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of beautiful red onions. They have red skin with a white & pink interior. It has a mild, sweet flavor. Perfect for sandwiches, soups, salads, and cooking. Stores well. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546175. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short day variety.

110 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Red Creole Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of sweet red onions. Perfect for salads and sandwiches. They are great additions to salsas, Cajun foods, and other zesty dishes. It performs especially well in southern and warmer climates, but it can be grown in many areas with proper timing. Stores well. A heirloom variety that was developed in 1962 by the Dessert Seed Company. An excellent choice for home gardens. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 682110. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short day onion.

115 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Red Grano Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of red onions. They are crisp, mild, and very flavorful. Perfect for sandwiches, salads, soups, and cooking. Great for hamburger topping. Excellent choice for home gardens. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546234. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short day variety.

100 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Red Wethersfield Onion. The plant produces good yields of large globe shaped onions. The white flesh has red rings and nice strong flavor. Used in cooked dishes, salads, soups, and pickled. Excellent for home gardens. Good for onion sets. A variety developed in Weathersfield, Connecticut. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546102. A variety from the USA. A long day variety.

115 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Red Zeppelin Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of 4" diameter red onions. It is a popular long-day red onion variety prized for its large, globe-shaped bulbs with deep reddish-purple skin and rings, slightly pungent flavor, high yields, and excellent storage qualities. Perfect for sandwiches, soups, salads, and cooking. Stores well for up to 6 months, allowing you to draw from your stored onions throughout the winter. Excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: FB, PR. 

110 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Southport Red Globe Onion. The plant produces heavy yields of medium sized red onions. They are firm, crisp, pungent, and mild in flavor. Perfect for soups, salads, and cooking. Keeps well, one of the best red keepers! No other red onion has a better flavor or long-term storage abilities than the Southport Red Globe Onion. This is the standard red onion used in commercial production. Also grows well in containers and small spaces. An excellent choice for home gardens, greenhouses, market growers, and open field production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546096. A 1873 heirloom variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: FBR. A long day variety.

110 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Southport White Globe Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of medium size onions. It is a firm and pungent onion that has a crisp and mild flavor. This Spanish type onion is grown for commercial production. Perfect for soups, salads, and cooking. One of the best storage keepers. Also known as Silver Ball Onion and White Rocca Onion. It is named after a town in Connecticut, Southport, and grows along Connecticut's Mill River. Southport was known as the Onion Capital during the Civil War, and pickled onions were used to keep scurvy at bay. It can be grown in just about any climate, but it is particularly noted for its ability to thrive in cooler weather. An excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. A long day onion for the Northern States. Cold Tolerant. An heirloom variety dating back to 1906. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546207. A variety from the USA.

2001 All-America Selections Winner! 100 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Super Star Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of large white onions. It is a popular ong day white onion variety known for its reliable performance for home gardeners looking for big, sweet white onions. They are very mild, crisp, very sweet, and flavorful. Perfect for salads, slicing, and cooking. It is 20 days earlier than other White Sweet Spanish Onions. Excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. A variety from the USA. 

110 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Texas Early Grano Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of 1 lb size yellow onions. Its white flesh is very sweet, mild, and very flavorful. It is a Vidalia type onion. Perfect for salads, slicing, and cooking. Stores well. This Vidalia onion is a good choice for the Mid-Atlantic and the Southern states. Also known as Texas Early Grano 502 Onion. A variety developed by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1933. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546127. An heirloom variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short day variety.

110 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Texas Grano 1015Y Onion. The plant produces good yields of 1 lb size white onions. The white flesh is very sweet and flavorful. Comparable to Vidalia onion. Perfect for salads, slicing, and cooking. Stores well, up to 2 months. Texas Grano 1015Y Onions were developed in 1980 by Leonard Pike at Texas A & M University. Its name derives from the planting date in Texas (October 15), and Y stands for yellow. They were developed from the "Grano" variety brought over from Valencia, Spain, in 1925. An excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 537590. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR. A short day variety.

65 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Tokyo Long White Bunching Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of Japanese bunching onions. Onions have stiff shanks and are mostly single stems. A sweet and mild nonbulbing onion. Looks like a long, slim leek. Perfect for soups, salads, and garnishes. These green onions do not form bulbs and do not multiply by division. Suitable for summer and fall harvests. Heat Tolerant. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR, S, TH.

115 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Utah Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion. The plant produces heavy yields of extra jumbo 1 lb size yellow onions. Bulbs are very mild and sweet and have yellowish brown skin. An all purpose onion perfect for soups, salads, and cooking. Cold Tolerant. An excellent choice for home gardens, Farmer’s Markets, market growers, greenhouses, open production, and commercial production. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546100. A variety from the USA. A long day variety.

105 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Walla Walla Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of large yellow onions. Perfect for soups, salads, and cooking. The Spanish type onion is very sweet and very mild. Bulbs can reach 2 lbs. If you like sweet onions like the ones grown in Vidalia, Georgia, but don't have the short day climate required to grow them, you'll love this ultra mild variety. It matures up to 2 weeks sooner than other Spanish types and is very cold hardy. A variety from Washington State that does well in the Northwest region. Cold Tolerant. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546205. A variety from the USA. A long day variety.

60 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. White Lisbon Bunching Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of high-quality bunching onions. It is a popular, fast-growing variety of green onion, also called scallion or spring onion. It has dark green foliage and long white stalks that hold up well after harvest. Onion does not form a bulb and has a smooth, mild oniony flavor that is not overwhelming. Perfect for soups, salads, and garnishes. Best for spring planting, but also good for fall and winter planting. It is a cold-hardy variety that will winter over. They are a perennial type of plant, and the more you cut them, the more they grow. The plants grow well close together, so it's great for square-foot gardening. If you leave the base of the plant in the ground over winter, it will come up every year! Suitable for containers, pots, small gardens, patios, raised gardens, borders/rock gardens, herb gardens, and window boxes. This variety can be used in greenhouse production, too. Cold Tolerant. Heat Tolerant. An excellent choice for home gardens, greenhouses, market growers, and open field production. An heirloom variety was grown by farmers and gardeners for over 200 years. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546331. An heirloom variety from the USA.

65 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. White Spear Bunching Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of quality, thick white shanks topped by tall blue green leaves. Never forms bulbs. It can be left in the ground in winter and all year round, as blue green tops are weather tolerant. Cold Tolerant, Heat Tolerant. Perfect for soups, salads, and garnishes. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. A variety from the USA.

110 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. White Sweet Spanish Onion. The plant produces excellent yields of large white onions. It is a popular onion variety prized for its large, globe-shaped bulbs with pure white, shimmery, easy-to-peel skins and mild, sweet flavor. This is perfectly suited to grow in any climate or region. Perfect for soups, salads, and cooking. They are very sweet. Used in Mexican and Southwestern dishes. Stores well. An excellent choice for home gardens and market growers. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 662433. A variety from the USA. 

85 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Yellow Granex Onion. The plant produces good yields of extra large yellow onions. This is one of the sweetest onions available. Perfect for salads, slicing, and cooking. Stays firm, crisp, and sweet when stir-fried. Similar to the famous Vidalia onions grown in Georgia. An excellent choice for home gardens, market growers, and open field production. United States Department of Agriculture, G 32783. A variety from the USA. Disease Resistant: PR, S. A short day variety.

125 days. Allium cepa. Open Pollinated. Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion Seeds. The plant produces heavy yields of jumbo 1 lb yellow onions. The bulbs are very mild and have yellowish brown skin. An all-purpose onion perfect for soups, salads, and cooking. Stores well. An excellent choice for home gardens, Farmer’s Markets, market growers, open production, and commercial production. An heirloom variety dating back to 1928. United States Department of Agriculture, PI 546198. A variety from the USA. A long day variety.

110 days. Allium cepa. (F1) Innovator Shallot. The plant produces good yields of 2" oval shallots with shiny red-brown skin. They are perfect for salad dressings, sauces, meats, and soups. This is the first Downy Mildew Resistant shallot. An excellent choice for home gardens and specialty market growers.  A variety from the USA.