you may want to sew onions from seed to harvest. Bought onions do not keep. They are grown with so much fertilizer that they lack micro-nutrients. They therefore have no strength and start to rot soon after they are bought. When I buy onions in the winter, I never buy more than I can use in a week. Only organically grown onions keep well.
If onions get too much rain as they are developing, they may be very sweet, but they won't keep as well as the hot onions which grew under dry conditions.
Large onions are of little value as companion plants, however, because they do not stay in the ground year round which is necessary for aphid protection.
Hint for growing onions: Do not grow them on soil which has had manure added to it in the last year. They don't like too much nitrogen. I learned that in my childhood. My father used to tell me that onions grown in rich soil would have maggots in them. Probably the excess nitrogen attracts the flies which lay the eggs for the maggots.
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