Red Long of Tropea Onion Seeds | Allium cepa | Open Pollinated
Red onions are so beloved in Tropea, Italy, that an annual summer festival is held in their honour. Hailing from the same region, this gorgeous, torpedo-shaped specialty onion will have you celebrating too. Although not a storage onion, the sweet, mild, and mouth-watering bulbs can be harvested with their tops in late summer, braided, and hung up like garlic for a few months of fresh eating. Grow it for yourself to see why multiple generations of gardeners and farmers have carefully selected for the traits in this beloved variety.
Sow in early spring in 2-4" wide bands or single rows 4" apart, about 1/2" between seeds. Cover 1/4- 1/2". Thinning is not necessary. Keep free of weeds. As with all onions, full sun, consistent soil moisture, and a fertile soil with a pH of 6.2-6.8 are preferable.
Days to Germination 4 to 8 days
Days to Maturity 90 days
Planting Depth ¼"
Spacing in Row 2 to 4"
Spacing Between Rows 4"
Width at Maturity 6 to 12"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Chelsea Granger's work often explores the overlap between earth and spirit dimensions. In this gouache and watercolor piece, she creates a sense of expansive time and space to show the onion in all stages of growth, connected to the people who tend it every step of the way to celebrating its harvest.
About Hudson Valley Seed Company
They are a values-driven seed company that practices and celebrates responsible seed production and stewardship. Hudson Valley are best known for their beautiful artist-design seed packs (Art Packs) that appeal to gardeners, gift buyers, and lovers of art and nature.
These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.