Large Onions 'Walla Walla Sweet'
- Product number: 305930
- Origin: North America
- Latin: Onion
We've found a truly sweet onion again! Originally from Corsica, this type was rediscovered by an American farmer in 1925. This onion has a remarkably mild and sweet aroma, lacking the pungent compounds (which also cause "crying"). This makes the bulb as crisp as an apple; you can simply eat it raw! The pleasant onion flavour is very suitable for children. Walla Walla Sweet is always used as a winter onion in the western US; seedlings can tolerate up to 10 degrees of frost. Around Walla Walla (a town in the Northwestern US), the seeds are sown in August-September to provide bunches of young plants to garden centres the following spring, just like "set onions" in the Netherlands. Please note: it is not a storage onion, so about 1 month after harvesting, chop, dry, and freeze the rest. Freezing makes them a bit watery, and you should consider that it takes a little longer to brown the onion pieces, but the mild, sweet taste is preserved.
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Latin: Allium cepa
Dutch: Grote Ui
Also: Walla Walla Sweet
English: Onion
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- Flower colour: White flowers in umbels
- Origin: North America
- Average growth height: 30 to 60 cm
- Annual or perennial: Annual
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- Winter hardy: Moderately frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Easy
- Latin: Onion
- Dutch: Big Onion
- Also known as: Walla Walla Sweet
- English: Onion
