isothiocyanate - a family of compounds derived from horseradish and radishes and onions and mustards; source of the hotness of those plants and preparations 3. onion - an aromatic flavorful vegetable veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or non...
Planting onion sets Growing Onions from Seed and Sets Onions can be grown from seeds, sets, and plants (transplants). Growing from seed is difficult for many home gardeners because onion germination rates are often poor. Sets purchased at garden centers are commonly sold as red, white, or ...
But day length is very important to onion plants. If you choose a short-day variety like Texas Super Sweet or Yellow Granex for a garden in the upper Midwest, you'll find your plants trying to make bulbs too early, before the plants have had enough time to grow big and strong. Longer...
3.any of several related plants similar toA. cepa,such asA. fistulosum(Welsh onion) Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visitthe webmaster's page for free fun...
Planting Onion Sets Make sure you have a section of your garden, whether it is a raised bed or field, that is sunny and not shaded by other plantings (onions love sun!). Onions will thrive in fertile, well-drained soil and will thrive further with a quality organic nitrogen rich fertili...
planting onion seeds directly into the garden in the spring makes it difficult for the bulbs to reach a good size before warm temperatures arrive. This means the seeds have to be started many weeks in advance of moving the plants outside into the garden. To make matters worse, onion seedlin...
on the external aspects of flowering, bulbing and ripening in onions grown from sets and also the production of sets from seed and their storage through the winter; the present communication is concerned with changes in the internal morphology of onion sets and plants from the same experiments. ...
bulbs are formed as single plants • inflorescencedoes not form bulblets • biennial, often grown as an annual • most important commercially • propagated in the main fromtrue seeds • sometimes planted as transplants • small bulbs (sets) are produced from thickly planted seed ...
“sets”. Onion sets are produced by sowing seed very thickly one year, resulting in small bulbs that that are easily set out and grown into mature bulbs the next year, Onion transplants are seedlings that are sown thickly and grown without bulbing for 45-90 days. These plants are then ...