Don't know if you knew this but there are other places that have
sweet onions too that are indigenous to their area.Texas has
their 1015 Super Sweet(planted on Oct.15) and Washington has
what's called Walla Walla's. I think Hawaii has a particular
sweet onion too. That's not a post Iíd expect from someone who
likes to chide people for not reading posts before posting.
Expanding on what I wrote two posts before yours (where I
commented on both 1015ís and Maui onions), none of the sweet
onions we have in the US today are indigenous. It all started in
1898 when Bermuda onions were first planted in Texas.
Ironically, the seeds were from the Canary Islands not Bermuda.
By the 1920's they were growing so many onions in Texas, the
demand for seed brought in new, inexperienced seed growers who
drove the Canary Island seed quality down. Per-acre yields in
Texas became so low that growers began looking at other
varieties Ė the most important of which was the Grano from
Spain. Because of low yields, there have been few,