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17 Jul 20, Elaine (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

I am looking for everlasting onions. Think they are called Allium Cepa Perutile. They are what I would call a a shallot and grow from a shallot.bulb only and get lots around it a bit like garlic and have leaves like spring onions and don't flower or seed. If you Google Iitoi onions in USA they look like that. I moved from Australia years ago and they had grown in my family for generations. I would love to have them again. Does anyone know where I can get a few bulbs in NZ?

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30 Jul 20, Sarah (New Zealand - temperate climate)

They may be what we call a multiplying, walking onion. I sometimes have some though not at this time of year.

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20 Jul 20, Mike (New Zealand - temperate climate)

I found a company Garlico in NZ, they grow and sell shallots, 3 different kinds, but not like what you and I are talking about. Mike

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20 Jul 20, Mike (New Zealand - temperate climate)

I took a look at the I'iotoi onion on google, the photo of them is the closest /the same to what I grow. I have always called them shallots and so did my mother. I/we have been growing them for nearly 60 years. Keep bulbs from one year to the next to replant. The only problem is I live in Australia, near Bundaberg Qld. A lot of people call different things shallots. If you are unable to obtain any in NZ you could ring your agric department and see if I could send some to you. Ring up some of the seed selling companies in NZ to see if they have them.

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16 Aug 20, Elaine (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

Mike thanks for your reply. The shallots you are talking about like the Iitoi in America you ave grown in Bundaberg for 60 years are exactly the same ones my Mum grew. I came from Brisbane Qld where she grew them for probably about the same length of time too. They are unique as they don't seed. I'm not sure Customs would let them into NZ as I know they are strict on fruit. I would love to get some but not sure how.

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08 Apr 20, Harpreet Kaur (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

If you sow seeds of red onion indoor in April and wait till it can be transplanted outside..say in June.. Can it stay in the ground in cold winters harmlessly..n mature in summers to come around Christmas? Or will it die in cold weather buried in soil ?

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09 Apr 20, anonymous (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

Go to cool/mountain NZ look up onion and look at the monthly calendar at the top of the page - read what S P &T mean and then apply that to your question.

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05 Mar 19, Carole (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

When is the best time to plant red onion seeds and what sort of fertilizer should I use do u use lime?

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06 Mar 19, mike (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

Best time to plant - read the top of the page. Fertiliser - one with not a high N content. Lime - read up about using lime.

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13 Feb 19, robert samuel walker (New Zealand - temperate climate)

when is the best time to put in red onion in christchurch

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