What to Buy
Short version first: what to order today, with product links whose stock was checked in the vendor's own system on the date above. Alternatives and the longer seed list are below, collapsed.
Buy now
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The best-adapted softneck for Georgia; ~8 heads, enough for Bed C's block plus bag 1. Plant Oct 25 – Nov 15.
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Buy once, have forever. A perennial that makes green onions all year and replants itself from top-sets. Add to the same order as the garlic to share the fall shipping surcharge.
- Yellow Granex onion plants (Vidalia type), 1 bunch → $16.70 · free shipping
Short-day sweet onion for the Bed B band; 4+ dozen plants per bunch. Dixondale's default ship week for zip 300xx is Jan 26 – Feb 1, so type the November week into the Requested Ship Date box at checkout to plant this fall.
- Texas Legend onion plants (Texas sweet), 1 bunch → $16.70 · free shipping
The 'Texas sweet' onion: bigger than Granex and stores a bit longer. One bunch of each fills the band with a dozen to spare for bags. Bonnie's 2-packs of Georgia Sweet / Texas Sweet are all sold out online.
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Covers Beds B and C now (cabbage worms) and gets the greens and pac choi through freezes. Hoops: 9-gauge wire or ½" PVC from Ace.
- Chives — 2-pack of live plants (clumps) → $16.00 (single plant $10.50)
Established clumps, not seed. Plant one in bag 4 and one in a 10" pot with morning sun; divide in 2–3 years and you'll never buy chives again. Bonnie's 2-pack ($18.99) is the online backup; Pike has them in person.
Buy once, have forever — perennial alliums
Alliums you plant once and keep. What you already have: Evergreen bunching onion (bag 2 — divide it now), garlic chives, and the nodding onion you bought Sept 12.
Green onions year-round; top-sets fall over and root themselves. Give it a permanent 2 × 2 ft spot at the allium station.
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) In stock — on the buy-now list (Growers Exchange)Hardy to Zone 3; divide every 2–3 years and it's permanent. Expect a July–August sulk, not death.
Yellow Potato Onion (multiplier) OUT OF STOCK at Southern Exposure (Sept 12) — check back or try FilareePlants one bulb, harvests a cluster; keep the small ones to replant each fall. The other 'forever' onion.
Shallots (Dutch Red / French Red) Dutch Red OUT OF STOCK Sept 12; check French Red / Grey Griselle on this pageSame idea as potato onions: replant a few bulbs from each harvest.
Evergreen Hardy White bunching onion You have it (bag 2)Divide the clump into 3–4 pieces now and it keeps going indefinitely.
Alternatives, the seed list, and supplies
Garlic alternatives
California Early was out of stock Sept 12. Hardnecks (Music, Chesnok Red) need 8 weeks in the fridge before planting here.
Filaree Garlic FarmBackup with the biggest variety list; also carries elephant garlic and potato onions some years.
Sow True Seed (Asheville) — garlicClose to Atlanta, ships fast.
Onion alternatives
Same $16.70; larger and stores a bit longer than Granex.
Dixondale — all short-day varietiesRed Creole for a storage red; White Bermuda.
Bonnie onion bundles (Home Depot / Lowe's / Pike)Online 2-packs all SOLD OUT Sept 12; bundles reach Atlanta stores Nov–Jan.
Mountain Valley Growers — organic chives (3" pot)In stock Sept 12; another live-plant chive source if Growers Exchange runs out.
Seed to sow now (one Johnny's order)
Space or Seaside. Pre-chill a week; sow from Sept 25.
LettuceWinter Density, or a baby-leaf mix for the AeroGarden.
RadishesFrench Breakfast — placeholder crop in the garlic block.
Greens (arugula, mizuna, tatsoi)Succession seed behind the transplants you bought.
Turnips (Hakurei)35–45 days, eaten raw.
CarrotsOnly if you add a bag by Sept 30; otherwise Feb.
Herbs (cilantro, dill)For bag 4.
Crimson clover cover cropAny bare ground Sept 15 – Oct 31.
Supplies & local
Quantities and timing come from the Fall / Winter plan. Stock was checked on the date above; vendor pages are the source of truth.