Short Day Onions:
a) Onions are bulbs or 'fleshy leaves' vegetable. b) Short Day Onions are best planted in places like Southern California, Mexico, Texas. So mostly the Southern and Western areas due to the fact that they temperatures are mainly warm year around. The bulbs will start to come early when there is only 10-12 hours of daylight. c) SD Onions are best to plant in mid October, they start to sprout around 7-10 days. d) This plant is possible for this semester because it gets planted around mid October and is harvest around I believe December? e) It depends on how mush I plant because they each need to be about 6-8 inches apart. f) Well it requires compost and well aged manure. g) Onions need about 1 inch of moisture a week and mulch to keep the soil moist. h) Companion for onions are like beets and beans and lettuce.
3) Onions can get diseases like BLB "Botrytis Leaf Blight" which is a fungal disease that happens in a lot of onions around the world. Spots will start to appear on the leaves. BLB can be controlled by spraying effective fungicides and removing the infected bulbs.
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