Heritage Sweet White Multiplier Allium cepa var. ? in february frost
Spring onions are well known, but this one could be called winter onions. It’s a multipurpuse little onion, both producing topsets and sweet white shallots. Like other white onions it only stores some months. Taste is very mild and sweet, usefull in salads, wonderfull with tomatoes.
Heritage Sweet White Multiplier harvested as shallots in late june
Heritage Sweet White Multiplier topsets in late may
When topsets comes in the ground in autumn, they can be harvested as spring onions in spring. Harvesting later, as the tops bend over, produce good sets for next season.
Next year the beautifull white shallots can be harvested.
Setting these, next year they produce a lot of very small onions. I hope these again produce the good shallots.
Thanks to Martin Longseth in Wisconsin, USA, for this usefull little multipurpose onion.
March 3, 2009 at 08:39
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March 3, 2009 at 17:50
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March 8, 2009 at 17:44
Thanks for this info. I am doing some fooling around with allium cepa in my cold climate gardens, and this variety looks like it has good potential. I will seek it out!
Have you observed how it responds to wet/fungus conditions, compared to other onions/shallots?
March 8, 2009 at 22:01
I have obseved, that it is quite sensitive to downy mildew (Peronospora destructor), as I have observed in any white onion. But it hasn’t been devastating. Downy mildew is dependent on humid air and a temperature interval. Here it’s only a summerproblem, and this little onion grow autumn, winter and spring, and then go dormant in summer.
May 10, 2009 at 06:26
I would like to get a hold of these onions. I have been looking all over for these. Can anyone help….
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July 18, 2010 at 18:34
Where can you order white multiplier onion sets.
July 19, 2010 at 15:27
I don’t know were to order them. I had a few people that had too many and they sent me some.
April 21, 2012 at 19:12
I have the onions set if you are still looking for some.
April 15, 2010 at 18:28
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June 16, 2010 at 11:52
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August 25, 2012 at 00:37
Ah, yes! I second a big thank you to Martin for my Heritage Sweets. In the third year there were up to 30 plus bulbs tightly packed.
Thanks
Michael
June 24, 2016 at 10:27
Do you know anywhere in the UK I can get the heritage sweet white? I really want to develop a topsetting onion collection