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- Greener Thumb
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Can onion sets be stored?
I've bought 2 bags of onion sets, red & yellow - varieties unnamed. There's more than I want to plant. Does anyone know whether there's a way to store the surplus till next spring? Or some other use for them? I suppose they're edible but .... ?
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I think onion sets are too tiny to save until next spring. They would dry out. They would grow scallions and green onions even if they won’t bulb up properly — it should be possible to pop them in wherever you have room throughout the season?
Unless organic and from source you can verify with, I wouldn’t trust casually conventional onion sets to eat. They might be grown or treated with class of fungicides or pesticides without expectation of them being eaten at this stage, or anything else you can think of. They might have been exposed to things that would be prohibited in a grocery food shipping/storage process.
Unless organic and from source you can verify with, I wouldn’t trust casually conventional onion sets to eat. They might be grown or treated with class of fungicides or pesticides without expectation of them being eaten at this stage, or anything else you can think of. They might have been exposed to things that would be prohibited in a grocery food shipping/storage process.
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