Redwing Onion Plants

Redwing Onion Features:

Our Redwing Onion Plants produce large red onions with a long storage potential. This is a long-day onion variety that performs best in the northern states within the long day onion planting range. Redwing is the most popular red onion variety for northern growers due to its consistency, beauty, and flavor.

These Redwing Onion Plants produce globe-shaped onions that have a vibrant red color throughout the entire onion. They are slightly pungent and great when sliced raw or used for cooking. This variety is resistant to bolting and can store for 8 months in ideal conditions.

Redwing Onion Growing Tips:

Our Redwing Onion Plants should be planted in late winter, approximately four to six weeks before your average last frost date. Established onion plants can tolerate temperatures down to 20°F, but young onion transplants will be more sensitive. Place the onion transplants 6" apart in your raised bed or in-ground garden and water them well for best results.

Onion plants are heavy feeders and will perform best in fertile soils. If your soils are not naturally fertile, you'll need to fertilize the plants to grow large onions. Feed the onions a balanced fertilizer (relatively equal parts of N-P-K) at planting or shortly after. Once the plants establish and start growing, feed them a couple times with a nitrogen-based fertilizer and watch them grow!

*For more general onion growing tips, click here.