Buan Onion

Allium cepa

A tough and beautiful golden storage onion bred for many years in Ireland.  I first found these seeds when I traveled to Irish Seed Savers in 2018.  I’ve grow the Buan onion for years and find them to be a very easy onion to grow and quite happy here in our region. They get about hand sized, so not large, but they taste great, store for a long time, and grow abundantly.  Here’s what the Irish Seed Savers Association have to say about them.  

“A lovely large golden onion that grows particularly well in Ireland having been bred here by onion enthusiast Barnie Crombie who carried out onion trials up to the 1980s. It stores extremely well, lasting throughout the winter. The old Irish name ‘Buan’ translates to ‘lasting or enduring’ and this variety is aptly named! Brought back from near extinction by Irish Seed Savers when we repatriated the seed from the Vavilov Gene Bank in 1997. We have regenerated the seed on 5 separate occasions since then. ‘Conservation-in-use’ at its finest.”

110 days to maturity

Packet contains ~150 seeds