Onion, Rossa di Milano

Onion, Rossa di Milano

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Quick Facts

  • Excellent keeping
  • Sweet, mild flavor
  • *Low impact food ALERT- No energy intensive food processing necessary for winter eating.

Allium cepa

110-120 days.  Sweet white flesh and purple skin, this is an excellent keeping Italian heirloom.  Barrel shaped, high shoulders, we chose to add this to the catalog because it is such a long keeper and we are so interested in winter eating from our short season garden!

How to grow it:

Germ Temp

Indoor Start

Germ Days

Frost Tolerant

Sun

Seed Depth

Plant/Row Spacing

65-85

12 w.

6-21 d.

Yes, light

Full

1/4”

12”/16” 

Start indoors up to 12 weeks before last frost. Plant 75-100 seeds in a one gallon pot, lightly covering with soil. No thinning necessary. Transplant at 6-12” apart when leaves are about the thickness of a pencil.

Seed specs:  Packet size- 1/4 g.~ 50 min.

*This is one of 7 varieties we offer that was not grown at Giving Ground Farm, but was instead grown biodynamically at Meadowlark Hearth.
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