Everlasting onions

[zazen999]

I just happened to take some photos of my Egyptian Walking Onions this evening.

[Wossername]

I was given three of the tree onion plants by my brother in law this year and they have come on really well in the garden, but how do I harvest them and which part do I eat?

[zazen999]

You can eat all of them; and you can harvest once the tops fall over.

Again, co-incidentally I counted the sets made from mine last night.

I had 11, grew 8 and gave 3 away in the seed parcel that went missing.....and from those 8, have left 2 in the ground to fall over and regrow.

I had 280 sets [yes, 280] from the tops of 6 onions.



They are quite small, so I have sown a few more for presents/novelty etc and I'm saving the rest for onion emergencies.

[Snadger]

I just happened to take some photos of my Egyptian Walking Onions this evening.

I usd to have some of those at the lottie..............but they've walked!

[zazen999]

I usd to have some of those at the lottie..............but they've walked!

Groan......if you want a few sets sending, PM me.

[Snadger]

Groan......if you want a few sets sending, PM me.

Thanks for the offer zazen but I grew them as a bit of a novelty, didn't eat any, and got bored with them eventually. I'll just stick with shallots I think.

What with walking onions and runner beans, aren't our veg getting fit? Apart from the couch potatoes of course!

[HayleyB]

I've got a patch of sommat, FIL gave me about 10 said just put them in and they'll split, and they did and they still are.... he thought they were called shrives but I cannot find anything close to that, anyway they've almost taken over the whole corner of that patch. He said to treat them like spring onions but they are a bu**er to get out of the ground. Are they walking or tree do you reckon?

[Paulottie]

Thanks for the offer zazen but I grew them as a bit of a novelty, didn't eat any, and got bored with them eventually. I'll just stick with shallots I think.

What with walking onions and runner beans, aren't our veg getting fit? Apart from the couch potatoes of course!

...Climbing Frenchies too..très sportif ...but some of my cabbages had to sit it out the exercise with club foot.

[zazen999]

I've got a patch of sommat, FIL gave me about 10 said just put them in and they'll split, and they did and they still are.... he thought they were called shrives but I cannot find anything close to that, anyway they've almost taken over the whole corner of that patch. He said to treat them like spring onions but they are a bu**er to get out of the ground. Are they walking or tree do you reckon?

Do you get proper bulbs or are they really thin like springs - they could be welsh onions - or just a quirk [there's so many out there]....

Have you got a photo? Do they taste nice?

[HayleyB]

Well, camera in hand off I toodled....
Pic 1 is the patch
I then pulled one up
Pic 2 is one that has split but still has a sheath
Pic 3 is showing sheath partly removed
I put the one on the right back in the ground
Pic 4 is the left hand one stripped ready to eat which I have just done, they are stronger than spring onions in fact breathing out is making my nose feel a bit er... runny, they are better in a whole salad in smaller doses

[zazen999]

They look very much like welsh onions of some sort, or bunching onions.

Nice though - to have strong onions year round

[HayleyB]

Except that I've got about six/seven strings of onions stored

Actually I really need to separate them a bit as I didn't realise they'd multiply so quickly and they are a bit squahed for room. BUT the little wotsits seriously hug the ground to about an inch and a half above the roots and it's clay - I've already broken a trowel trying to lift some