Short Day Onion Starts - Buy Bundle of 4 dozen

**Preorder Ships November**

In Florida and much of the deep south, TX and CA, bulb onions are grown during our fall to spring gardening season and we take advantage of what are called "short day" varieties that will only form bulbs as the days get longer in the spring- this allows for months of plant growth during the cooler months that will result in some of the largest, sweetest type onions you can grow.

Famed Georgia Vidalia Onions are simply short day sweet onions grown in a certain area. The same varieties grown in Florida are sometimes called "Strawberry Onions" due to Floridas strawberry farmers growing sweet onions on the outside rows of their fields. Being that strawberries require ideal growing conditions, the onions benefit as well and grow into enormous mild sweet onions. 

Our starts get you kickstarted growing your own onions, a kitchen staple throughout the year, and if you think about it, onions are probably the one vegetable you eat almost every day. Definitely worth setting some garden space aside for!

Available only in the fall, plant 1-2 inches deep about 4 inches apart upon receiving in a well amended plot (for our personal garden onions we add compost and a balanced organic fertilizer at the manufacturers recommended dose, follow up with an additonal band of the same fertilizer a month or so later and fertigate weekly with a mild fertilizer and micronutrient solution) and plant on drip tape or in a raised bed to ensure adequate even water and soil nutrition (onions, especially sweet onions are hungry and thirsty plants!) 

We offer 3 varieties:

1015 Texas Super Sweet - the sweetest and largest variety we carry - comparable to Vidalia onions. Also the shortest storage type due to higher sugar and water content. 

Texas Early White- Slightly less sweet and more pungent than Yellow, this is a good staple cooking variety. A little rounder than the flattened shape of Yellow Granex. Generally ready for harvest a couple weeks before other varieties.   

Awahia - University of Hawaii developed red storage onion, has the advantage of being more punget and therefore longer storing.