Torpedo-shaped, with soft light-red flesh and mild, sweet flavor. Red onions are an Italian specialty. Their thin, red to purple skin and mild, soft light-red mild flesh make them especially popular as a decorative salad onion. Torpedo-shaped onion with soft light-red flesh has mild, sweet flavor.

Appearance: Elongated, torpedo-shaped bulbs with a glossy, deep red to maroon skin and a pale, white inner flesh.

Flavor: Exceptionally sweet and mild, lacking the strong bite of many other red onions.

Origin: Grown in a specific coastal area of Calabria, Italy, and has a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status, meaning its quality is linked to its geographical origin.

Culinary uses: Versatile and can be used in many ways, including raw in salads, grilled, roasted, or cooked into dishes like pasta and frittatas. It is also famously used to make sweet jams and even savory ice cream. 

100 Days.

Open Pollinated

Sweet and mild flavor

Excellent for salads.

Italian heirloom with an elongated, torpedo, or globe shape, featuring a mild, sweet flavor perfect for salads, pickling, or fresh eating, and is known for its vibrant rosy-pink to deep red color and excellent storage qualities. 

Appearance: Elongated (torpedo/bottle) or globe-shaped bulbs with lovely rosy-pink to deep red skin.

Flavor: Mild and sweet, less pungent than typical red onions, with a delightful crispness.

Uses: Excellent raw in salads, pickled, or cooked fresh; cures well for short-term storage.

Origin: An old Italian heirloom variety, also related to Tropea onions. 

Origins from 1500 BC.

Cipolline flat onion.

Sweet flavor and white skin.

Suited for raw and cooked foods. 

Shape: Distinctively flattened and disk-like, resembling a button.

Size: Compact, usually around 2 to 3 inches in diameter.

Color: Delicate pale golden-yellow outer skin.

Flavor: Mild and naturally sweet, intensifying with cooking.

Skin: Thin and almost translucent, which can make peeling a bit tricky.

Origin: Native to Boretto, a town near Parma in northern Italy.

Culinary Uses: Ideal for pickling, roasting, braising, or caramelizing due to their rich, sweet flavor.

A white onion has thin, papery white skin and crisp, juicy white flesh with a sharp, mild, and slightly sweet flavor profile. It is often used raw in dishes like salads, salsas, and guacamole due to its mildness, but it can also be cooked in soups, stews, and other dishes where its flavor becomes sweeter and it breaks down more quickly than yellow onions. 

Appearance: Slender green leaves atop distinctive red stems that can grow up to 12 inches tall on plants reaching 24 inches, with cooler weather deepening the color.

Flavor: Mild, sweet, and less pungent than bulb onions, with a crisp texture.

Type: A bunching onion (Allium fistulosum), often grown like a spring onion or scallion.

Origin: An Asian heirloom, popular with home gardeners. 

Planting: Best planted in late summer/fall for rich red color, but can be grown most of the year.

Soil: Prefers fertile, well-drained soil.

Blanching: Mounding soil around the stems creates longer white parts; leaving it exposed deepens the red.

Harvest: Can be harvested young as tender scallions or allowed to mature, cutting and regrowing for multiple harvests. 

Adds color and mild onion flavor to dishes.

Ideal for Asian cuisine (stir-fries, sukiyaki), salads, soups, and as a garnish. 

Tokyo White Bunching Onion is a hardy, mild-flavored, fast-growing onion that does not form a bulb. They are often referred to as scallions and grow 12" long with white stalks and green tops. This variety is very dependable because it thrives in a wide range of soils, is heat and cold tolerant, and can be sown successively throughout the season. Young plants can be harvested at 60 days and mature ones at 110 days.

Scallion seeds can be planted directly into the garden soil.

Sow seed directly into the garden soil after the last frost. 

Plant seeds 1/4" deep and 1" apart. Firm the soil lightly and keep it evenly moist. Seeds will germinate in 7-14 days. Later thin to 3" apart when seedlings are 1- 2" high.

Gently apply a thick layer of mulch to keep weeds down and the soil moist.

Harvest bunching onions when plants reach 10-12" tall, while the stalks are still white at the bottom and fairly thin. 

Each packet contains 300 Organic Tokyo White Bunching Onion seeds. Allium cepa. Annual. Open-pollinated, heirloom, Non-GMO.