Garden enthusiasts are welcome to free onion seedlings Saturday at the Waimea and Eleele branches of First Hawaiian Bank. Greg Harding, Waimea High School agriculture instructor, is teaming with Syngenta Seeds to distribute red onion seedling transplants starting at 8
Garden enthusiasts are welcome to free onion seedlings Saturday at the Waimea and Eleele branches of First Hawaiian Bank.
Greg Harding, Waimea High School agriculture instructor, is teaming with Syngenta Seeds to distribute red onion seedling transplants starting at 8 a.m. until supplies are exhausted. The distributions will take place in front of the Waimea and Eleele branches of First Hawaiian Bank.
“The onion seedlings (not for eating with saimin) are the round red variety,” said Basilio Fuertes, a former Waimea agriculture teacher. “We got them from Bayer CropScience when we attended a conference. The type we’re distributing is the Mata Hari, a main to later-season hybrid that has flattened globe-shaped bulbs.”
Planting instructions are fairly easy starting with soil preparation where the garden hoe and hands are used to remove weeds and a two-inch layer of compost mixed into the soil to promote aeration and drainage.
The onion giveaway is a partnership by the Waimea High School science and agriculture students under the direction of Harding, Syngenta Hawaii, Basilio Fuertes, former agriculture teacher at Waimea High School, and Bayer CropScience.
