The Best Onion Varieties for South Carolina
Short-day and intermediate-day onions are the varieties built for South Carolina.
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Short-day and intermediate-day onions are the varieties built for South Carolina.
Saskatchewan sits far enough north that day length, not frost dates, decides when onions go in the ground.
Saskatchewan sits at 52.17 degrees north, using Saskatoon as the reference point, and the longest day of summer there stretches to 16 hours and 31…
Rhode Island sits far enough north that onions need to go in the ground before spring even feels like spring.
Rhode Island sits far enough north that its onions need long summer daylight to bulb, not warm soil.
Onions in Quebec go into the ground in early spring, not fall. At 45.47 degrees north, the latitude of Montreal, drawn from Environment and Climate…
Montreal sits at 45.47 degrees north, and on the summer solstice the city gets 15 hours and 29 minutes of daylight, well inside the 14-to-16-hour window…
Plant onion transplants or sets in Prince Edward Island in early spring, once the soil can be worked, and choose long-day varieties.
In most of Oregon, long-day onions go into the ground from late February through April, as transplants or sets, timed so the plants have several weeks of…
Long-day onions are the safe bet across most of Oregon, and a solid handful of intermediate-day varieties will also bulb reliably here.