Notes
4 seeds/cell in 200s, plant the plug. Parade is the standard; Nabechan is sweeter.
Cultivars / Alliums
White Spear
Scallion · Allium fistulosum
DTM
50 d
64 d occupancy · extreme
Rows
4
4 in in-row
Density
12
plants / bed-ft
Yield
3
bunches / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$8.10
$3.00 / bunch
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 200s
- Nursery lead
- 42 d
- Germination
- 7 d
- Germ temp
- 50°F – 80°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 4
- In-row
- 4 in
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 12
- Plants / 50 ft
- 600
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 50 d
- Holding
- 14 d
- Occupancy
- 64 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.2
- Frost hardiness
- Extreme
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- bunch
- Units / bed-ft
- 3
- Avg unit wt
- 0.4 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 1.1 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.75 / $3.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 77.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.3 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.5 / 0.2 / 0.7 lb
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-02-18 → 2026-11-24
- First greenhouse
- 2026-01-07
- First harvest
- 2026-04-09
- Successions that fit
- 4 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 53 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 706 seeds · 600 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $236.25 / $405.00
Companions
carrot · lettuce · beet
Avoid
pea · bean