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🧅🌱 Karmen Onion – Allium cepa – 1000 Seeds

🧅🌱 Karmen Onion – Allium cepa – 1000 Seeds

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Grow sweet, flavorful, and versatile onions with Karmen Onion (Allium cepa), a popular variety known for its firm bulbs, mild taste, and excellent storage qualities. Ideal for fresh use, cooking, and preserving, Karmen onions develop large, round bulbs with a golden-yellow skin. This variety is well-suited for both home gardeners and commercial farmers due to its uniform growth and resistance to common onion diseases.

Usage:

  • Fresh eating, cooking, salads, and grilling

  • Great for drying, storage, and long-term use

  • Suitable for fresh market and home garden cultivation

Sowing Time:

  • Sow seeds indoors 8–10 weeks before last frost date

  • Transplant seedlings outdoors after danger of frost has passed and soil is workable

Germination Time:

  • 7–14 days

Sowing Depth:

  • Sow seeds 1 cm (â…œ inch) deep

Soil Requirements:

  • Fertile, well-drained soil rich in organic matter

  • pH 6.0–7.0

Sunlight Requirements:

  • Full sun (6–8 hours daily)

Watering:

  • Regular watering; keep soil moist but avoid waterlogging

  • Reduce watering as bulbs mature to promote storage quality

Plant Spacing:

  • Thin seedlings or transplant to 10–15 cm (4–6 inches) apart in rows 30 cm (12 inches) apart

Harvest Time:

  • 90–110 days from sowing

  • Harvest when tops begin to yellow and fall over

Hardiness Zone:

  • USDA Zones 3–9

Other Benefits:

  • Good disease resistance

  • Long storage life when cured properly

  • Versatile culinary uses

  • Easy to grow in various climates

Latin Name: Allium cepa

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