Candy

Candy

Our most popular variety—over 85 million sold last year!

  • Yellow, globe shaped, sweet, hybrid
  • Size Potential: Up to 6"
  • Storage Potential: Approximately 3 months
  • Days to Harvest: 90

The most popular variety we offer. Authorized to be used in the Pennsylvania Sweet program. Works almost everywhere in the country as a large mild onion that keeps well. This onion is great for beginner gardeners!

Price: $10.75

 

Quantity:

The total price of your onion plant order will be determined at checkout. Pricing is based on the total number of bunches purchased (see chart to the left).

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Customer Reviews of Candy

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Candy 
posted by Tom Schaefer on 2008-08-15 15:13:59
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Came in smaller than Walla Walla here in NJ, and about half bolted.
Candy 
posted by David Carow on 2008-08-25 16:44:32
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I am new to growing onions and these produced awesome 3" - 5" bulbs. We also ate many as green onions and all along the way. Extremely pleased with this variety.
CANDY 
posted by Curtis Gardens on 2008-11-09 16:41:36
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We have raised these onions for 5yrs. Each year doubling the amount on our order. We sell at 2 farmers markets and still run out of candy onions. This year we grew candys that weighed over 2 1/2 lbs! I tell customers buy 1 and I'll see you next week. Next week it's WHERES THOSE CANDY ONIONS!!
YES 
posted by Mark Nielsen on 2008-11-17 17:57:35
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I have grown this onion for several years and have been very pleased. A great onion for this area, and stores well too.
Long Keeper 
posted by Peg on 2009-01-18 17:17:07
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The storage ability of the Candy onion has surprised me. We harvest in Arkansas in July, cure them in open crates until September, then refrigerate the onions in mesh bags. I am using the last ones now in January and they have retained full quality. Their flavor is unsurpassed for carmelized onions.
not good 
posted by sheryl on 2009-05-23 15:07:46
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they barely made it to an inch here in OK. i won't plant them next year.
Candy and Super Star 
posted by Jerome Long on 2009-08-14 15:05:42
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Candy is the ideal intermediate day onion. It even keeps pretty well(up to 4 months) The quality rivals yellow granex which does not keep. I planted one bunch and produced about 30 pounds of onions which were up to 5in. Mixed into the planting were several white (apparently Super Star) onions which matured in similar time and size to Candy.
Candy Onion Grower 
posted by Michael Martin on 2009-10-02 00:51:56
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Best onions I have ever grown. A older lady I know has been buying these onions from you for years. When her husband was alive he planted them. Next year I am going to plant 10 times as many so I can give them to all my friends. You keep doing whatever your doing because it's working!
Just old ed 
posted by Ed Rodriguez on 2009-11-10 13:42:02
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Bad summer - very cold and dry. With a little help from the garden hose, I still got a very nice crop of Candy onions. We live just N/W of Chicago. I'll plant the same type again next year!! Your grow letters are GREAT.
a bit smaller than expected, but sweet 
posted by Jo-Ann Bouley on 2009-11-22 19:05:01
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My Candys came in at an average size of 3 -4 inches, but they were sweet with just a bit of bite. I have to admit that I did forget to apply the last dose of fertilzer, so I'm sure that had some influence on the size. They are keeping well in my cellar and I will order them again for 2010.
candy 
posted by randy on 2009-11-23 13:55:29
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Here in the southeast corner of TN I grow candy and supersweet most years. Everybody says that they are the best onions they have ever tasted. I plant first week in feb.to get giant size bulbs.
Good Candy 
posted by John Ramey on 2009-11-28 17:26:21
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Last year I grew candy that I ordered from gurneys.they averaged small to med but had excellent flavor and exceeded my storage expectations. In 2010 I am going to order from Dixondale farms.
Wow.... 
posted by Howard Prussack on 2009-12-27 17:50:19
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I made so much money with candy that it should be illegal! Many weighed between 1 and 2 lbs,customers loved the mild flavor and they keep great,whats not to like!! I doubled the order this year and so should you! Putney, VT
Very good 
posted by Richard on 2010-01-08 16:25:27
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The problem with these onions is that we only ordered 1/2 what we needed.They have a very good taste.Didnt get as big as I thought they would but I just planted and watered,no fertilizer or anything,plus we had a very cool summer.This year we have rabbits so I expect much better garden overall. Missouri
Candy Onion 
posted by Heidi on 2010-01-13 13:32:26
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Still the best sweet onion for market. I keep ordering more each year and still manage to sell out. Pleasant View, Colorado
best onion ever 
posted by M Smith on 2010-01-17 23:02:44
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The best review I can give. Gave my SIL some withered up bunches, definitely way past planting prime. She actually planted, about 1/2 came up. They are part of a community type plot situation. Her words, not mine, they were so good, I didn't share with anyone! They live in Southern OK. I live in S.Central hill country, TX. and have actually been able to cure this onion so I still had them in late January, when pulled in May. I've even missed a few and had onions bigger than softballs in late July. A few soft spots so they needed to be used quickly. The taste is incredible. You get the onion flavor, but without harshness or overly sweet. I've never cried when chopping this onion. Those flavors I mention are straight out of the ground or cured.
I like onions ha ha ha 
posted by Robert Whittle on 2010-02-07 18:31:51
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We have grown 4to5" bulbs of candy sweets consistently in NE Arizona (high desert) for the past 3 years.
I like onions ha ha ha 
posted by Robert Whittle on 2010-02-07 18:48:42
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We have grown 4 to 5" bulbs of candy sweets consistently in NE Arizona (high desert) for the past 3 years. Not only are they as good as any sweets we've tried, but we successfully store them in our root cellar in knotted pantyhose or net tubes from Aug/Sep until at least April when we begin harvesting green onions from the next crop. Candy sweets are "sweet"! Thanks
Small is good!! 
posted by Khalil on 2010-02-12 21:34:45
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Both the candy and red apple sold really well as small onions, so well that I didn't have many left to mature. Increased my order this year.Madison, VA