Bulb Onion (Allium cepa)

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Onion - Wikipedia
Allium cepa - USDA PLANTS Database
All About Growing Onions - Mother Earth News

Duration: Biennial or perennial

Native to: Unknown. Related wild species occur in Central Asia

Edibility: All Parts

Status in Yard: Garden

In November 2016, I bought two bundles of bulb onion starts, a red one and a white one whose varieties I don't remember, and put all of them in the garden, partly in Bed 3/Plots 6 & 7 and partly in the S bed and I bed. These onion plants are in Bed 3. Their leaves are still green as of May 18, 2017.

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In general, they grew slowly and did not get very big. I harvested the ones in the S bed on May 18, 2017. According to Mother Earth News, I did the post-harvest all wrong. I should have cured the onions in a cool dry place with the roots and leaves still attached. I cut them off as soon as I brought them inside. The tile in the photo is one square foot.