"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On 7/4/2014 6:07 PM, Janet wrote:
>> In article >,
>> says...
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>>> Would it be easier to find Walla Walla onions near London? 
>>
>> Probably not, but we can buy seeds to grow them.
>>
>> Janet UK (not in London)
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>
> Nope. Sweet onions like Vidalia, Walla Walla, Texas 1015 are trademarked
> and can only be grown in certain areas. They also need a certain soil or
> they won't have the sweet flavor they are famous for.
>
> OTOH, if you caramelize them, you won't know the difference in the end
> result.
I can grow them here but I grew them from sets not seeds. I do see that the
seeds are available. The one year that I tried to grow them, we had
unseasonably high temps for a couple of days and that was enough for them to
bolt and flower. They have beautiful flowers.
I harvested them and the bulbs were still pretty small. About the size of
golf balls. Took all that I had to make the Gordon Ramsey potato recipe but
they were very good in it.
IMO, these will get much sweeter when caramelized than the standard yellow
onion would. They taste like they were cooked in sugar.
I know what you're saying about them only being grown in certain areas
but... Would this apply to selling them as such? Because we certainly can
grow them at home. And the ones that I grew tasted every bit as good as
what I could buy in the store.