For the last few years I have been ordering my onion starts from Dixon Farms located in Texas. I lost their latest catalog and cannot find their phone number.
Would appreciate obtaining the phone number. When I get it again I will make sure to keep it. I have had good luck with their starts, good size and healthy.
Thanks

Island Bob!!

If you're referring to Dixondale Farms...I've ordered from them for years. Liked em so much even mentioned them on my webpage.

http://www.dixondalefarms.com/

Happy Onion Planting!

gardenz

Gardenz!!!
Thanks for the info. I have already placed my order. Have you tried the cippolini onion, its great, my wife's favorite onion.

I have also had REALLY good luck with their plants- and they seem like very nice folks when you speak with them.
I am interested in trying cippolini as well- but I am worried that we are too "long day" for them to do well as far North as we are. Any advice?
Thanks

Even though I'm not as far into the northern "hinterlands" as you are, farmme, I'm still enough on the zone-cusp to stick with long-days. My major priority is storage time. That's why I usually go for First Editions, Copras and Big Daddys. All of which can average anywheres from 8 - 12 months of storage.

Cippolinis are supposed to be okay for northerners, but, as you say..."just how far north is north?"

Unless you can get some feedback from someone in your locale that's grown them, guess contacting Dixondale is about the only other way to get an answer. Maybe try asking them if other "far north-customers" have ever ordered them and what(if any) comments they got back on the success rate.

Either way, as you say, they're very obliging at Dixondale, and I think they'd be honest enough to tell you if the Cippolinis wouldn't suit your area.

gardenz

I have garown the cippolinl onions for 2 years and have had good crops. I am located in northwestern Washington at latitude 47+. That might eaven be higher than Maine. I would try tahem anyway, their worth it. They do not have a long storage time,so I use them beforae my othear long storage onions. Good Luck.

I just got my seed catalogue from Irish Eyes (Irish-Eyes.com). They have seeds for cippolini onions in short day, intermediate day, and long day varieties. They also have plants for the long day variety.