Onion variety
Evergreen Hardy White Bunching Onion
Evergreen Hardy White Bunching is a white bunching onion, ready in about 65 days. It’s a bunching onion — grown for slender green scallions, not a bulb. Sow it thickly and snip as you need it.
“A bunching onion (scallion) — no bulb, all green.”
Growing basics — shared by every onion
Evergreen Hardy White Bunching grows like any other onion. The full picture — how deep to plant, spacing, feeding, pests, harvest — lives on the Onion page so it's maintained in one place.
- Sun
- Full Sun
- Spacing (in row)
- 3–4 in
- Row spacing
- 12–18 in
- Planting depth
- 1–1.5 in
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Water
- Moderate
What is Evergreen Hardy White Bunching good for?
- Fresh as scallionsSnip the greens all season. Great
- StoringNo bulb — use it fresh. Skip it
From how it grows — kitchens vary.
What Evergreen Hardy White Bunching is known for
Johnny's Selected Seeds describes this as:
- takes the cold
That is the company selling the seed, describing its own product. True, and worth weighing as such.
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Want the full 10/50/90% odds + nearest stations? Open the frost tool →When to plant Evergreen Hardy White Bunching in your zone
Zone 6bGreenhouse or cover on: your start slides ~4 weeks earlier and your harvest stretches ~3 weeks later (shown striped).
Planting seeds straight in the ground only works where the season's long and warm — most gardeners start seeds indoors or buy young plants, or you'd pick your first tomato right as frost hits.
Comfortable — first ripe fruit lands around late Apr, well before your typical frost (~late Oct).
- Start seeds indoors
- mid Feb – mid Feb
- Picking
- late Apr – early May
Typical dates for zone 6b — set your zone or ZIP above for yours.
What to plant near Evergreen Hardy White Bunching — and what to keep away
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CarrotsTrialed
Interplanted onions confused carrot rust fly in some trials and did nothing in others. Worth a try, not a bet.
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BeetsTraditional
Chart canon, both directions.
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Cabbage familyTraditional
Old chart pairing; both hold cool-season beds.
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LettuceTraditional
On the classic charts — lettuce's own row lists onions.
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TomatoTraditional
Chart canon says onions and garlic make good tomato neighbors. No trials to point at, no conflict either.
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BeansTraditional
The most consistent 'no' in companion planting. Unproven, unanimous.
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PeasTraditional
Same flag as beans — every chart agrees.
The badge is the honesty. Trialed = a published field trial · Practical = a real mechanism · Traditional = companion-chart lore. These pairings hold for every onion.
Pairings compiled from University of Minnesota Extension, West Virginia University Extension.
Growing Evergreen Hardy White Bunching — the things that trip people up
- Bunching onions are forgiving and quick — sow thickly, snip the greens as you need them, and they’ll keep coming. They also overwinter in many areas.
Evergreen Hardy White Bunching onion at a glance
| Type | Bunching |
|---|---|
| Days to ripe | 65 days after you plant it outside |
| Color | White |
Extra fields from seed-catalog listings and university growing guides. Days to ripe and disease resistance shift with your climate and seed source — double-check with your local extension office before you buy.
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Common questions about Evergreen Hardy White Bunching
How long does Evergreen Hardy White Bunching take to grow?
About 65 days from sowing. Sow it in early spring and snip the green tops as you need them.
Will Evergreen Hardy White Bunching bulb where I live?
It doesn’t form a bulb — it’s grown for green scallions, and it works in any region.
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