Onion of Giarratana

Productive process

Fagone’s company chooses accurately the most hansome onions during summer season to extract the seed coming from it.

Fagone’s company selects accurately the seed to let the onions growing up in a healthy and perfect way; the seeming will be made in October.

On February the little plants are collected in order to be selected one by one; then they work in them and the plants are ready to be transplanted.

Every single plant has to be transplanted manually and individually, in fruitful soils.

Plants reach their maturity after months, they have to be irrigated and they grow up to be collected during summer season.

In July,after months of working hard, Giarratana onion is ready to be collected manually.

After recollecting onions, they are potted and sent all over Italy.