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Kōrero: Market gardens and production nurseries

Onion growing

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Onion growing

This crop of onions growing near Shannon, Manawatū, is being sprayed against weeds. Although Pukekohe is the onion capital of New Zealand, a number of commercial growers raise their onion crop further south in the rich loam soils of the Manawatū and Horowhenua.

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New Zealand Herald

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by Mark Mitchell

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – Major vegetable crops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20007/onion-growing (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.