When to Plant Onions in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania onions go into the ground in late winter to early spring, not autumn, because winters here are too cold for the fall-planting approach that…
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Pennsylvania onions go into the ground in late winter to early spring, not autumn, because winters here are too cold for the fall-planting approach that…
Pennsylvania sits at 39.87°N latitude (measured at Harrisburg, the reference point for this page), where the longest day of the year delivers 14 hours…
Plant onions in Ontario in early spring, not fall, and time it by day length rather than the calendar.
Onions grown in Ontario need to be long-day or intermediate-day varieties, full stop.
Oklahoma City sits at 35.39 degrees north, and its longest day of the year delivers 14 hours and 24 minutes of daylight.
Plant onions in Ohio in late winter to early spring, not fall. Ohio’s winters run too cold for the mild-climate, plant-now-harvest-in-spring approach…
Columbus sits at 39.99 degrees north, and on the longest day of the year the sun stays up for 14 hours and 51 minutes.
Onions in Nova Scotia go in during late winter to early spring, started indoors under lights around mid-to-late February and moved outside in April once…
At 44.88 degrees north, the latitude of Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Nova Scotia gets 15 hours and 25 minutes of daylight on its longest day.
Northwest Territories sits far enough north that the usual onion advice stops applying.