For some reason, there's not a lot of solidly accurate information for onions....even from supposedly reliable sources!
You can never go by the stores. If I go into a Lowe's, they will have (or used to have) 4 onion varieties: 3 short-day and 1 long........Wal Mart had a bag of onion bulbs that were "onion" variety and no-day .
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