Bianca di Maggio
Variety
Bianca di Maggio
Approved Data
created by Amarone at 12.03.2023
Features
Color
white
Location
planting: bed
planting: raised bed
Taste
mild
aromatic
sweetish
Growth habit
Winter variety
Fruit shape
flat round
Cultivation Break
4 Years
Season Overview
Sowing
Harvest
Harvest
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
1ST YEAR
2ND YEAR
Description
This variety forms flat, white bulbs that can be perfectly plaited into onion braids. They can be stored for a good 5 months. They taste mild and sweet. Great as a vegetable, e.g. as caramelized onions.
Non hybrid
Frostproof
Growing tips
It can also be sown in spring.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Nutrient requirement
Medium
Plant distance
15 cm
Row spacing
20 cm
Seeding depth
1 cm
Companion Plants
Aubergine / Eggplant
Beetroot
Black salsify
Carrots
Celery (Celeriac / Celery root)
Celery (Celery)
Celery (Leaf celery / Chinese celery)
Chayote
Chili
Coriander / Cilantro
Courgette / Zucchini
Cucumber (African horned cucumber / Kiwano)
Cucumber (Caigua)
Cucumber / Gherkin
Dill
Garden squash - Patisson / UFO squash
Knolliger Sauerklee / Oca
Lettuce (Common chicory)
Lettuce (Endive / Escarole / Erisée)
Lettuce (Lamb's lettuce)
Lettuce (Lettuce)
Lettuce (Puntarelle / Cicoria di catalogna / Cicoria asparago)
Lettuce (Radicchio / Italian chicory)
Lettuce (Sugar loaf)
Melon (Sugar melon)
Melon (Watermelon)
Okra
Parsnip
Pepper / Paprika
Savory
Spinach (Summer)
Spinach (Winter)
Strawberry
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Antagonistic Plants
Bean ((Scarlet) runner bean)
Bean (Broad bean / Faba bean / Field bean)
Bean (Dwarf bean)
Bean (Hyacinth bean / Lablab-bean)
Bean (Lima Bean)
Bean (Runner bean)
Broccoli
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage (Cabbage)
Cabbage (Pointed cabbage)
Cabbage (Savoy cabbage)
Cauliflower
Chives
Chives
Collard greens (Kale)
Collard greens (Tuscan kale / Dinosaur kale / Palm tree kale)
Garlic chives
Horseradish
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Leeks
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Oil radish / Fodder radish
Ornamental alliums
Pak Choi
Pea
Potato
Radish
Radishes
Rapeseed
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Sea coal
Soybean
Sweet potato
Turnip
Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage
Turnip greens - Mizuna
Vegetable cabbage - Forage cabbage
Wild garlic
Diseases
Dry rot of crucifers
Root Rot
Soft rot
Fusarium
Downy mildew
Yellow stripe virus
Pests
Thrips
Stem borers
Leaf-miner flies
Onion fly
Wireworms
