Onion Allium cepa

Onion has been planted 74 times by Growstuff members.

Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

34 weeks

First harvest expected

36 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

46 weeks after planting

Height

1cm

Spread

15cm

Photos

Onion crops

Onion plantings

by maco 2014-06-22 1

Onion harvests

Onion seeds

Sunniness

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Harvested for

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Coming together

by shawnacscott,

This weekend I had two full days to really focus on the yard, and I made the most of it. With the intermittent help of several others over the course of the weekend, I got both easement planter boxes filled with compost and soil, cleaned up and weeded the alley, got the stump pulled from the coni...

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Seeds started!

by maco,

Today I started seeds for the [backyard beds](http://growstuff.org/gardens/maco-backyard-beds) [![Seed starting](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7611/16712892090_301c105207.jpg)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/maco_nix/16712892090 "Seed starting by Mackenzie, on Flickr") The [onion](crop)s ar...

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Getting ready for spring!

by maco,

I've got seeds either on-hand or ordered for just about everything I'm starting from seed this year. I've been working out what I want to plant, and this is the plan I've come up with for the 72 square feet of my backyard raised beds: ![garden plan](http://mackenzie.morgan.name/tmp/garden_plan...

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This year (2014)

by Mad_Martha,

This year wasn't a particularly good year in my garden. Due to my ill health through spring and summer, the only things that got planted were the [potato](crop)es, [onion](crop)s and [elephant garlic](crop), all of which were planted either late last year or early in the spring. I'm refusing to...