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    onions left in ground form last year??

    Hi,

    Have got some onions that got left in the ground at the allotment. They are now sprouting green shoots about 6 inches high, do I leave them in or chuck them?

    thanks
    Tori
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    I left mine in (there were only about 3 or 4 that hadn't really grown the previous year and had been overlooked), and they split into bunches and I ate them like spring onions, they were great. I even moved the ones that were in inconvenient places, and they were okay too.
    Life is brief and very fragile, do that which makes you happy.

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    • #3
      They will run straight to seed but the seed heads are quite ornamental!
      My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

      Diversify & prosper


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      • #4
        I too overlooked a few from last year that are now sprouting. I have never done that before, reckon my eye-sight is going as a result of old age, but I am leaving them in just to see what happens. How did they split Pipscariad? Is it like shallots because I certainly have no sign of that, or very much else other than green shoots - (no not the economy), happening.
        Why didn't Noah just swat those 2 greenflies?

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        • #5
          They will try to flower in their second year, won't they? I suppose if you eat as spring onions, they'll be ok. I had a couple try to flower in their sown season (when I didn't water enough). Although I cut the flowers off, they didn't seem to want to do much, so I think the Spring Onion idea is your best bet.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by sarraceniac View Post
            How did they split Pipscariad? Is it like shallots because I certainly have no sign of that, or very much else other than green shoots - (no not the economy), happening.
            If you imagine a clump of about 5 or 6 spring onions all packed together in a papery outer case, that was it. It didn't take them long to get like that. They were sets which hadn't really grown in size from their first planting.
            Life is brief and very fragile, do that which makes you happy.

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            • #7
              I would start munching on them, and grow some new ones.
              "He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                They will run straight to seed but the seed heads are quite ornamental!
                Saving you the bother of buying next year.
                Sent from my pc cos I don't have an i-phone.

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                • #9
                  They will never do anything but put up aflower shoot

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