Allium cepa Seeds | Walla Walla Onion
LATIN NAME: Allium cepa
COMMON NAME: Walla Walla Onion
Plant Profile
Walla Walla Onion (Allium cepa) is a hardy, biennial in the onion family. Onion swells round bulbs under hollow, grey-green leaves, the whole row standing in the neat, solid look of the kitchen garden. It is a plant of open, sunny, deep, rich, moist, well-drained ground. Bees find the flowers quickly, and that pollinator traffic is a garden benefit in its own right. These traits together are what have kept the plant in gardens for so long.
Science & Biotechnology
As part of the onion family, Allium cepa contributes to research on plant classification and adaptation, while nurseries and gardeners continue to trial it for cultivation. For researchers, plants like this one offer practical material for propagation studies and selection work.
Uses & Benefits
Walla Walla Onion brings genuine presence to the garden and earns its keep across the growing season. Onion is a solid, useful plant of kitchen garden and study collection. It is a solid, useful plant of open, sunny, deep, rich, moist, well-drained garden. Onion seeds are happy in a fine, sandy loam kept lightly moist. A plant that has settled in will get along with only routine care.
The onion family is one of the great medicinal plant groups: garlic, onions, leeks and their kin supply sulfur compounds such as allicin that have been studied extensively for cardiovascular and antimicrobial effects. Regular allium consumption is associated with several benefits in population studies, and garlic remains one of the world’s best-selling herbal supplements.
Growing from Seed
Walla Walla Onion is one of those generous plants that come along well from seed. Fill a pot with a light seed compost, sow evenly on the surface, cover thinly and stand it somewhere warm, bright and evenly moist. Grow the youngsters on steadily in pots until well rooted, then move them to their final positions.
Our Take
It forms a hardy, biennial, which makes spacing and siting straightforward. Even moisture while the seed is chitting is the main thing; afterwards it largely looks after itself.
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