Wow - that's a much wider spacing than I guessed. I may need to replant some tomorrow. For some reason, I thought they could be placed close together. Maybe that was onions. Well, this year is an experiment. Next year, I want to save good quality seed to share. mauirose - unfortunately, they are only purple on the outside. The inside is more yellow orange. bsntech - I had carrots over winter under shredded leaves, but I didn't try it with this variety this year. Glad to see more people seed-saving! Just FYI - carrots cross easily with Queen Ann's Lace and broccoli can be tricky. Do you have "Seed to Seed" by Suzanne Ashworth? Great book on seed saving! Bellatrix

I'm going through old posts looking for something else and have seen several people ask this question so will chime in with my experience. I was told that you won't get what you expect and boy was that advice correct. At the time my garden was probably 2 miles from the nearest other garden, so cross pollination from other gardens was doubtful. From the seed off white ebeneezer onions I had all colors of the rainbow in the seedlings. None of which ever amounted to anything. I played around with them about 5 years before I finally let them go. It was a fun experiement but a waste of my gardening space. Maybe others have had a better experience but I think it all depends on the heritage of the onion you planted originally.

I don't think that is an oversimplification - I hear that's how some OP varieties have been improved over time. The reverse could easily happen as well by carrying on the characteristics of a weak plant. We save seeds only from varieties and fruits that taste great, selecting from the strongest plants. Our best germinating seeds are from seeds we've saved. We store them in an airtight plastic tub with a desiccant, kept in the fridge. 10-20% humidity and 40F.

It kind of sounds like they thought they were posting to a California specific forum. Miscategorized I guess, or they just don't understand that these forums are not local. I'm always a bit leery of these "public service announcements" from companies, since they are usually just thinly veiled attempts to get free advertising in a place advertising is not allowed. The complete lack of further engagement from these companies if any discussion DOES happen just reinforces the idea that these posts are a "post it and forget it" advertisement rather than any legitimate attempt to engage with the community here. I suspect this post has more to do with getting exposure for their company name than it has to do with sparking any real discussion, but it's subtle enough that I probably can't report it as spam and get it taken down.