Knowing your Onions: Evergreen Bunching Onions?

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Hi Roseta,

With my reading, I'm becoming very intrigued now with the idea of growing some

" evergreen " bunching onions or scallions. In our climate these should be able to

grow constantly, if not perennially or in a self-perpetuating manner and

(apparently)you can harvest after three or four months in a cut and come again

manner. I remember these as being among the more fragrant and tasty kinds of

onions. They are also listed as the most nutritious kind I could find, high in

anti-oxidants, and with significant amounts of vits A, C and calcium, likely

because you eat them with the greens still attached. The seed prices are

remarkably cheap -- at $5.00 an ounce I can stock a bit. And everyone says they

are good and easy to grow. That might be my kind of plant! Anybody have

experience with these?

 

Slim

 

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, " rosetalleo " <rosetalleo wrote:

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> They also sell 'onion sets' at nurseries. In order to 'protect' you tomatoes

now you are better off planting sprouted grocery store onions if you cannot find

onion sets. The reason is that seeds are super slow, so you would have only

pencil size onions by the time the tomatoes are done. When your grocery store

onions flower, you can harvest the seed and get 'free' seed from your own

garden, so it is adapted and fresh. The flowers are also really pretty. Then

sow the seeds for next year spring onion crop in the fall.

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> By the way i don't now about onions and tomatoes, I will try it though. I do

have alliums all around roses for that reason, plus, similar watering schedule

and alliums take up so little space. I had heard of marigolds and basil with

tomatoes, both of which i do.

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