Days to Maturity: 90 to 100

Highly popular and extremely heavy producing, Candy Hybrid Onion is grown as a bulb vegetable. The plant sets huge, up to 6-inch, globe-shaped yellow bulbs with a sweet flavor. Plant early for full size potential. With a strong root system and disease resistance, the plant is easy to grow, good for beginners. Onions are a good source of folate and vitamin C. Storage potential is 3 months.

This plant is a member of the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae). Typically grown as an annual, the onion is an herbaceous biennial plant with an upright habit of linear, cylindrical, hollow, glaucous leaves that arise in a basal rosette and are typically bluish green in color. The plant has a medium growth rate.

Onions are great companion plants in the garden. They naturally deter certain garden pests, like aphids, Japanese beetles, sugar beet-flea beetles, deer, and rabbits. Onions can also improve th