Dakota Tears Yellow Storage Onion
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Dakota Tears is a yellow-skinned, firm fleshed storage onion with robust onion flavor. The Podoll family has been selecting it on their farm for vigor, size, long-term storability, disease and insect resistance. Stores for up to a year. Averaging 12 oz each with medium-thick necks. Dakota Tears was honored by Organic Gardening magazine as one of ten outstanding plants in their 2010 variety trials. It has successfully rivaled hybrid varieties in university-based variety trials. Long to intermediate-day onion, adapted to areas north of a line from Santa Barbara to the North/South Carolina border. Bred in the 1980-90s by David Podoll, and pledged as an OSSI open-source variety. (112 days) 150 seeds
The Open Source Seed Initiative exists so that breeders who originate new varieties can protect them from exploitation and patenting by corporations. It means that the breeder has freely given up patent rights in order to keep the variety in the public domain forever. The OSSI pledge reads: "You have the freedom to use these OSSI-pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others' use of these seeds or their derivatives, by patents or other means, and to include this pledge in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives."