Onions
Yellow onion
Growing vegetables
Growing onions: is it better to sow seeds or plant bulbs?
The onion (Allium cepa) is easy to grow. There are several options for planting it in the garden: from bulbils or from seedlings (seeds). Let's see what these two techniques consist of and which one is best for you. Sowing...
9 February 2022
Growing vegetables
Onions VS shallots: the differences between these two vegetables
If only from a culinary point of view, knowing how to differentiate onions or "onions" from shallots is essential. We take stock of the situation to help you distinguish one from the other!<br> What is the difference between onions and...
23 February 2022
Growing vegetables
Growing onions: is it better to sow seeds or plant bulbs?
Onions (Allium cepa) are easy to grow. It grows everywhere in France. There are several options for planting it in the vegetable garden: from bulbils or from seedlings (seeds).Let's see what these two techniques consist of and which one is...
15 March 2025
Yellow onion
- Type : Vegetables
- Subtype : Bulb vegetables
- Botanical Family : Liliaceae
Characteristics
- Lifecycle : Annual
- Exposure : Full Sun
- Frost Hardiness : Frost Resistant
- Cultivation Difficulty : Easy
- Adult Height : 30 cm
Sowing & Planting
- Greenhouse Growing : Not Required
- Sowing Depth : 2 cm
- Plant Spacing : 10 cm
- Row Spacing : 20 cm
Maintenance
- Maintenance : Low
- Water Requirements : Moderate
Seeds
- Soil Type : Humus-rich
- Soil pH Preference : Neutral
- Pest Sensitivity : Moderate
- Disease Sensitivity : Moderate
- Weed Sensitivity : Moderate
- Pollination : Insect-pollinated
- Propagation : Sowing