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Choosing onion transplants saves you the time and effort of starting seeds indoors. Plant them directly in your garden after any danger of frost. Most transplants take about 2 months to grow into mature onions. Multipler and egyptian walking onions are a perennial variety that does send up a flower stalk with bulbils on top. Multipler and egyptian walking onions are year round crops including winter. Here are a few tips for growing onions seeds, sets, or transplants. Onions planted from seed are used as green onions within 40 to 50 days of planting. They are fully grown in 90 to 130 days, depending on the variety. Onions planted as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring are ready for the table by july. Successive plantings throughout the spring produce fresh onions all summer long. Onions can be grown from seeds, sets (young, small dormant bulbs grown the previous year), or transplants. Onions can remain in the ground as long as the soil does not freeze and the bulbs are not directly exposed to freezing temperatures. If you live where the weather will turn wet and cold and the soil will become soaked, the best strategy will be to lift the bulbs and cure themair dry for at least 10 days. Onion family members are renowned in the garden for the lengthy growing seasons needed to produce a decent harvest. Most people are familiar with onions (allium cepa), the edible bulb in the allium family. Their strong flavor makes them a favorite of chefs in various cuisines. How long it takes for garlic (allium sativum) to grow and mature depends on when you plant the cloves. The best time for planting garlic is fall, and fall-planted garlic matures in about eight months.
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