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Bring sweet flavor and deep-red color to your garden with Red Candy Apple onions. This intermediate-day hybrid produces attractive flat-globe bulbs for fresh salads, sandwiches, and colorful homegrown meals. Developed by Dixondale Farms to provide a reliable red intermediate-day option, Red Candy Apple rewards gardeners who allow it to reach full maturity. Imagine lifting your own red bulbs, slicing their crisp layers for a sandwich, or cooking them slowly into a savory skillet topping. Each package contains 50 young plants for planting, not seeds or harvested onions.

• Deep Red, Flat Globe Shape, Sweet, Hybrid
• Daylength: Intermediate Day
• Size Potential: 3 inches
• Storage Potential: 2–3 months under suitable conditions
• Days to Harvest: 85–95, depending on growing conditions

Why Choose Red Candy Apple Onion Plants?

• 50 plants per package: Begin with young transplants rather than sowing seed.
• Sweet red onion flavor: Enjoy harvested bulbs sliced into salads, burgers, and sandwiches or cooked into everyday meals.
• Deep-red flat-globe bulbs: Add distinctive color to your harvest and fresh market display, with size potential of approximately 3 inches.
• Intermediate-day variety: Match your planting schedule to local intermediate-day onion guidance. Bulb size and performance vary by region.
• Let it finish: Allow plants to reach full maturity so Red Candy Apple can finish developing its bulbs.

Planting Tips for Success

• Timing: Follow local extension guidance for intermediate-day onion transplants and plant promptly after arrival. The shipping estimate is not a universal planting date.
• Sun and soil: Choose full sun and loose, fertile, well-drained soil. Raised beds can help where drainage is poor.
• Planting and spacing: Set roots into the soil with the growing point above ground. Space plants approximately 4–6 inches apart, leaving room between rows for tending.
• Water: Maintain even moisture during active growth without waterlogging the roots.
• Feeding: Fertilize according to soil needs and label directions. Avoid using extra nitrogen indiscriminately, particularly late in bulb development.
• Care: Weed gently around shallow roots and avoid piling soil over developing bulbs. Staking is generally unnecessary.
• Harvest and curing: Allow bulbs to mature and harvest when tops naturally fall and begin drying. Cure in a dry, protected, well-ventilated location until necks and outer skins are dry.
• Storage: Store cured bulbs with good airflow and check regularly. The listed storage potential is 2–3 months under suitable conditions; use damaged bulbs promptly.

Explore Our Onion Blogs

• Planting and Growing Onions: Read our garden experiences and tips on soil, spacing, harvesting, and curing. This article also covers growing from seed; the product here is young plants.
• Onion Daylength: Explore why daylength matters when choosing onions for your region.
• Plant Onions In The Fall: Learn about fall planting, with Texas 1015Y examples. Those variety-specific dates are not a Red Candy Apple planting schedule for every location.
• Onion Colors: What is the Difference?: Explore onion colors and their uses in the kitchen.
• Calories in an Onion: Read more about harvested onions and the different onion types.

Why Choose David's Garden Seeds®?

• Veteran-Owned: Supplying premium seeds since 2009.
• GO TEXAN Certified: Supporting local agriculture and communities.

Cooking Methods

• Fresh: Slice harvested Red Candy Apple bulbs for salads, burgers, and sandwiches to enjoy their sweet flavor and red-purple rings.
• Dressings and salsa: Finely dice harvested onions for fresh salsa or homemade salad dressings.
• Caramelized: Slowly cook sliced bulbs until soft and deeply golden with muted burgundy tones for a savory topping.
• Grilled or roasted: Cook wedges alongside other vegetables to bring out their sweetness.

Preorder Red Candy Apple Onion Plants Today

Reserve your package of 50 plants for $14.96 with free shipping on plant sets only. Expected shipping begins around November 18, 2026.

Nutritional Information

General reference for one medium raw harvested onion bulb (about 110 grams), not the young plants supplied for planting. Values are not a Red Candy Apple-specific analysis.

• Calories: Approximately 44.
• Total Carbohydrate: Approximately 10.3 grams (4% Daily Value).
• Dietary Fiber: Approximately 1.9 grams (7% Daily Value).
• Protein: Approximately 1.2 grams.

Values are approximate and vary with bulb size and growing conditions. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000-calorie diet.

Important Disclosures

• Variety Disclaimer: Bulb size, flavor, maturity, and performance vary with climate, planting dates, soil, moisture, and care. Size and storage figures describe potential, not guarantees.
• Live Plants: This package contains 50 plants for planting, not a seed packet or harvested onions. Plan to plant promptly after arrival.
• Planting Location: Choose planting dates for your local climate and intermediate-day onion-growing guidance.
• Preorder Timing: Shipping is expected to begin around November 18, 2026; this is an estimate, not a guaranteed delivery date.

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Skillet-Caramelized Red Candy Apple Onions

Turn harvested Red Candy Apple onions into a rich topping for burgers, sandwiches, or roasted vegetables. Use mature harvested bulbs, not the young plants supplied for planting.

Serves: 4 as a topping. Prep: 10 minutes. Cook: 35–50 minutes.

Ingredients

• About 1 pound harvested Red Candy Apple onion bulbs, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
• Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 2–4 tablespoons water, as needed

Directions

1. Heat olive oil and butter in a wide skillet over medium-low heat.
2. Add sliced onions and salt. Stir to coat, then spread into an even layer.
3. Cook gently for 35–50 minutes, stirring every few minutes, until soft and deeply golden with muted burgundy tones. Reduce heat if onions darken too quickly.
4. Add water a tablespoon at a time whenever browned bits collect on the pan. Stir to loosen them, keeping onions from scorching.
5. Season with pepper and serve warm.

Storage: Refrigerate leftovers in a covered container within 2 hours and use within 3–4 days.