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Post by lisaann on Jun 17, 2015 16:30:37 GMT -5
Hubby was gifted these today. The elderly gentleman couldn't remember the name.
They overwintered in his 60x100 foot bed and smell like onions. I ask hubby to get me a date with him! hahahah I want to visit his garden!
I have never grown shallots. But didn't think the bulb would be this big, but since they overwintered and went to seed, maybe so?
Heck, the seed head impresses me.
Maybe it is something else entirely?
3 pics to share and need you guys info! Thank you!
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Post by octave on Jun 17, 2015 17:29:22 GMT -5
They look more like walking onions to me, but perhaps they are shallots. Here is a pic of shallots:  |
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Post by desertwoman on Jun 17, 2015 17:51:50 GMT -5
I grow shallots every year and those don't look like any I have grown.
If you look at Octave's picture you can see that several cloves are clumped together with one root system (sort of like garlic, but more loosely together than a head of tightly joined garlic cloves) (but the shallot cloves are sort of garlic clove shaped, only bigger).
I don't know about walking onions- I've never seen one- so I don't know if that's what they could be.
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Post by lisaann on Jun 17, 2015 18:37:39 GMT -5
I was thinking walking onions , but I didn't think the bulb of them were that big, even after the overwintering.
This is pestering me. Maybe the elderly gentleman will have a brain storm and remember what it was he planted last year.
Hubby seems to see him everyday all of a sudden, and now that hubby chatted about gardening..............he is chatty! hahahahahhaha
Do walking onions, Egyptian onions really get that big?
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 17, 2015 19:42:13 GMT -5
I only ever saw Egyptian walking onions one time and the tops look like what you pictured. I didn't see the bulbs. They were still underground.
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Post by datgirl on Jun 17, 2015 19:48:16 GMT -5
They look like walking onions. They might be older plants. That's what mine look like now.
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Post by oliverman on Jun 17, 2015 22:37:13 GMT -5
If walking onions aren't too crowded, they can make a bit of a bulb like that. If he planted the bulbils last fall with plenty of room, that is about what I would expect.
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Post by James on Jun 18, 2015 8:14:20 GMT -5
I think you have Egyptian Walking Onions.
It seems impossible to put a photo in your reply. What is going on with that???
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Post by mrsk on Jun 18, 2015 8:33:06 GMT -5
yep, those are walking onions. They don't make a big bulb, and you don't dig them up and dry them out to keep them all winter. They are kind of clumpy, but they come back every year.
I am taking Jame's advice, he just posted on mine, and am going to plant those little ones as single bulbs, and use them as green onions.
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Post by lisaann on Jun 18, 2015 17:19:56 GMT -5
Can't find one spot to plant those seed heads from the top of the plant. How should I store those bulbs from the top of the plant till I sneak them in somewhere in some spot. Do I really need these things? Do you guys really use these things everyday? Now you guys were just in my mind as I type out loud!  |
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Post by James on Jun 19, 2015 0:02:57 GMT -5
Yep, plant those onions. Devote a spot to a mother clump from which you will take the little bulbs, separate the clump, and plant the small bulbs in a row for green onions. The mother clump will expand out some over time. They are perennial. Some call them "Forever Onions". Once you have them you have onions forever.  |
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Post by datgirl on Jun 19, 2015 16:07:46 GMT -5
Yes you do. I dug out a big clump the other day. They were starting to take over one of the garden beds. I've given them away to so many people just to thin them out.
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Post by Tomato Z on Jun 19, 2015 17:50:27 GMT -5
Last year a friend generously gave me 6 walking onions in a pot and said to plant out in the garden. First time with them so I just separated each one and planted about 6" apart. This Spring the clump turned into about 24 so the others in the community garden took about 20 for their plot and left 5 or 6. These plants formed the bulbils like Lisaann's middle picture with about 8 new ones to plant. I cut off the bulbils, planted them, cut down the stalks of the older plants and will wait for Mother Nature to take her course.
I found a little room for the new plants around part of the tomato cages/
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Post by Veggie Gal on Jun 19, 2015 17:54:47 GMT -5
Do you have to buy plants or can I buy seed of Walking Onions?
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Post by datgirl on Jun 19, 2015 19:48:28 GMT -5
I'm not sure if you can buy seeds. I got mine from someone trying to thin her onion patch.
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