New York Early Onion Seedlings

Small-to-medium yellow onions with great keeping qualities. Mild flavor makes these great all purpose onions, raw or cooked, especially in the later winter months when other onion varieties has lost their keeping quality. Originally maintained by Orange County, NY black dirt farmers. Our seeds to comes to us from Jay Armour of the Four Winds Farm. While we are used to starting our onion seeds in mid-February and nursing them in the cool greenhouse until our April planting date, Jay's preferred method for sowing onion seeds is to direct sow in the early spring as soon as the soil can be worked. A lot less greenhouse work, but be sure to try this method only if you have a rich soil with high organic matter, to make sure the soil will retain enough moisture that the onion needs for their longer germination period.