Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion

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About Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion

  • Botanical Name: Allium cepa
  • Common Name: Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion
  • Critters: Deer resistant
  • Family: Amaryllidaceae
  • Germination: 7 to 14 days
  • Hardiness: Cold and drought-tolerant
  • Life Cycle: Annual
  • Medicinal: Yes
  • Sunlight: Full sun
  • Heirloom
  • Maturity: 115 days
  • Non-GMO
  • Plant Food: FoxFarm Big Bloom for Organic Gardening
  • Seed Depth: 1/4 inch
  • Size: 12 to 18 inches tall
  • Spacing: 6 inches
  • Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Harvesting Information

Harvest when tops start to turn yellow and fall over. Cure in a warm, airy location for 7 to 10 days. Then clip tops and roots. Sort through your harvest to separate any "soft" onions that may not be storable. The solid onions can be stored long-term in a cool, dry place.

Recipes With Onion

Albóndigas Soup
Asian-Style Fried Rice
Breakfast Omelette
Cabbage & Cucumber
Chicken & Bell Pepper Stir-Fry
Chicken & Vegetable Shish Kabob
Chicken Crepes
Chicken Enchiladas
Chicken Madeira
Chicken Shawarma
Classic Steakhouse Salad
Drunken Ribeye Steak
German Potato Salad
Green Chile Sauce
Holistic Chicken Enchiladas
Homemade Vegetable Broth
Hot & Sour Soup
Huevos con Chorizo y Papas
Immune Boosting Chicken Soup
Layered Taco Salad
Lemony Pear With Vinaigrette
Orange Chicken
Potato Soup
Saffron Rice
Spaghetti & Meat Sauce
Tomato & Cucumber
Traditional Baked Beans

Selection & Storage

Solid onions can be stored in a cool, dry place for up to 6 months.

Usage Tips

Health Benefits

The uses of the onion are many and varied. Fresh onion juice promotes perspiration, relieves constipation and bronchitis, induces sleep, is good for cases of scurvy and sufferers from lead colic. It is also excellent for bee and wasp stings.
Onions are noted for their nerve-soothing properties. They are also beautifiers of the complexion. But moderation must be observed in their use or they are apt to disagree. Not everyone can digest onions, although I believe them to be more easily digested raw than cooked.
A raw onion may be rubbed on unbroken chilblains with good results. If broken, the onion should be roasted. The heart of a roasted onion placed in the ear is an old-fashioned remedy for earache.
Raw onions are a powerful antiseptic. They also attract disease germs to themselves, and for this reason may be placed in a sickroom with advantage. Needless to say, they should afterwards be burnt or buried.
Garlic possesses the same properties as the onion, but in a very much stronger degree. Leeks are very much milder than the onion.
An excellent poultice for the chest may be made by placing one or two English onions in a muslin bag and pounding them to a pulp. This should be renewed every three or four hours, and the chest washed1.

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