DORATA DI PARMA SEEDS

Allium cepa

ORGANIC

Beautiful Italian onion. One of the absolute best open-pollinated long day keepers. By far the most vigorous and drought-impervious onion that we grew in the very hot dry summer of 2020.

Skins are a beautiful shimmering gold. White flesh is very dense, but still juicy and mild enough for fresh eating. Grows to about the size of a tennis ball in a good year. For storage, wait to harvest late in the season, when all top growth has died back. Properly cured, they will keep for the entire winter.

Start onion seeds indoors in late winter. Sow into flats of moist soil and cover with plastic. Kept warm and moist, seeds will germinate in a week or so. Thin to one plant per inch or per cell. Grow on in bright light at warm room temperature. Fertilize weekly. Harden off and transplant into the garden as soon as the soil can be worked in spring.

Packet contains at least 200 seeds.