Red Beard Bunching Onion seeds
This is a versatile and easy-to-grow variety. Red Beard bunching onion is a hybrid that will produce numerous small cylindrical bulbs of sweet and mild onions perfect in soups, stews, salads, kabobs, and almost everything. This is a dependable variety that will sprout in the late winter-early spring. These can be grown close together since they are a bunching variety. This makes them great for containers, window boxes, or even planting in narrow garden planters that may have a long narrow rectangle shape. These are also ideal for slipping into small spaces between veggies if you are square foot gardening. The roots run shallow to they won't compete with deeper root vegetables (carrots, tomatoes, chilies, etc).
Growing these near your brassicas is also a wise idea! These will repel cabbage loopers, cabbage worms, and maggots, while adding potassium to your soil, encouraging blooms to those plants that surround your onions!
Seed count: 150
Botanic name:
Allium cepa
Plant spacing:
12' between row spacing. In row spacing 18 - 24".
Color:
Dark green stalks with purple-fushia bulbs.
Sowing depth:
1/4-1/2 inch
Sun requirements:
Full sun
Utilization:
The bulbs can be used in sautees, stir fries, eaten raw in salads or used on burgers and sandwhiches. These are also delicious carmelized or pickled. The greens can be used in soups, as garnish, or ethnic dishes (i.e. fried rice or enchiladas).
Frost Hardy:
Yes
Maturity days:
70 - 120 days
Life cycle:
Biennial
Can I start indoors:
Yes
Container friendly:
Yes
Other names:
N/A
