Recommended Onion varieties to grow

Growing Onion Varieties
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Which Type of Onion To Sow or Grow?
Consult the table below to weigh up the good and bad points of onion varieties from seed and onions from sets.

If you are a beginner, try the heat-treated onion sets first. These are easiest to care for and will give you the best chance of success.

ONION SETS	ONION SEED
Fewer varieties, and restricted to the major seed merchants.	Greater choice of varieties from a large number of suppliers
More expensive	Cheaper
More reliable performance all round, less work	Less reliable, more chance of failure. Harder work
Can be infected with disease when bought.	Seeds are disease free.

Recommended Varieties of Onion
The table below gives our recommendations for each of the different types of onions - in the end it comes down to personal preference on taste and appearance, so try a couple of varieties to discover your own favourite.

Type	Variety	Colour	Comments
Maincrop seed	Ailsa Craig	Gold/straw	Good for exhibition, but not particularly easy
	Rijnsburger	Gold/straw	Keeps well - good all-rounder
	Kamal	Red	Great taste and lovely red colour. This now replaces Dobies All Rounder as our favourite onion seed. From Suttons.
	Red Baron	Red	NIAB approved - keeps well and good colour
Maincrop sets	Centurion	Gold/straw	Reliable in poor weather conditions
	Orion	Gold/straw	Available as heat treated - good all rounder
Spring Onion	Lisbon	White	Good all-rounder, reliable
Japanese Onion	Express Yellow	Gold/straw	Matures early summer, excellent.

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Name: jim@GardenAction
E-mail: webmaster@gardenaction.co.uk
Date posted: February 01, 2012 - 05:58 pm
Message: I'm not familiar with Central Phillipines, you need to consult local growers and see what they use.

Name: randy uriarte
E-mail: Private
Date posted: February 01, 2012 - 08:29 am
Message: Im living here in the central part of the philippines, I want to plant onions in a larger scale. can you recommend what type of red onion variety that best suited to my area.We have a rainy season here early of june until mid of november.

Name: jim@GardenAction
E-mail: Private
Date posted: November 04, 2011 - 03:03 am
Message: Try looking at seed companies online. It's just a matter of completing an order, paying and waiting.

Name: Rama
E-mail: Private
Date posted: November 04, 2011 - 01:54 am
Message: where i will get the seeds of the above varieties to grow.
Plz. suggest how the distributer to contact to get the abvoe seeds.

regards

Name: Chapmac41
E-mail: clivechapman_ampney@hotmail.com
Date posted: September 13, 2011 - 08:01 am
Message: Can someone suggest a Small HOT Onion variety suitable for pickling please.
(And possible a supplier)
Cheers Chapmac41

Name: anthony
E-mail: a.stuebe@hotmail.com
Date posted: June 12, 2011 - 09:53 pm
Message: i am a beginner and wanted some pictures of what onions look like when they are growing (what the plant looks like for white bulb onions)

Name: Joe
E-mail: jfbrickler@yahoo.com
Date posted: June 12, 2011 - 02:07 pm
Message: We have grown onions for several years, and have never had this problem until now. The plants were only a few weeks old, and about 8 inches tall when we went away for a week. When we returned something had removed about 2 to 3 inches off the tips of each plant. What animal would each the onion tops? None of the tops were on the ground.

Name: fantu
E-mail: mesayagza@yahoo.com
Date posted: November 12, 2010 - 02:58 am
Message: i want to grow red croel onion variety so i need information on this variety.

Name: sudesh
E-mail: durgi_sudesh@rediffmail.com
Date posted: October 05, 2010 - 02:32 am
Message: I am a beginner I am intrest in cultivating onion seeds, so please sujust me to whom I have to contact for seediling.

Name: David
E-mail: stonesdk11@gmail.com
Date posted: September 24, 2010 - 12:29 pm
Message: Help!! My onions form very nice leaves but the bulbs are small. Have heard that you must push the tops down to get the bulbs to form?
Is this so and if not how do I get the onions to form bulbs
Thanks