About
The main open-field bulb onion crop is lifted in late summer and autumn, when the bulbs have matured.
Fresh harvest season
An orientation window for local open-field harvest in the regions already documented in the atlas — not retail, import, or storage availability.
Atlas regions summary: August 20 – October 15
Regions with data: Moscow Oblast
In the kitchen
Bulb onions are fried, stewed and roasted, and added to soups, sauces and salads. Raw onion tastes sharper. Cooking softens it.
Seasonality by region
Moscow Oblast(RU-MOS)
Season: August – October; Beginning; Active; Ending BeginningActiveEnding
- Season
- August 20 – October 15
- Confidence
- Approximate
Evidence
Open-field bulb onion. 9 September 2024: about 30% of plan, more than 24 of 75.5 ha. 18 October 2024: onion fields fully cleared. Start 20 August and end 15 October are editorial. Garlic from the same October sentence is not mixed in. No explicit peak: available sources do not justify a narrower window without false precision.
Sources
Moscow Oblast farms have collected about 30% of the onion harvest (9 September 2024)
Regions.ru / Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Moscow Oblast
9 September 2024, for All-Russia Onion Day: about 30% of the planned onion harvest already collected; more than 24 ha of 75.5 ha in 30 districts; yield about 418 c/ha. No start date and no garlic calendar.
Moscow Oblast onion and garlic fields fully harvested (18 October 2024)
Lenta.ru / Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Moscow Oblast
18 October 2024: onion (75 ha) and garlic (11 ha) fields fully cleared. Onion leader Dmitrov (1.1 thousand tonnes). This is a finish date, not a start. No garlic start calendar — do not use this source as a garlic season.
