Walking Onions

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I have a few walking onions near the chives. I no longer remember where they came from ... or, why ;). They are much too strong flavored to be appreciated.

No mention of shallots :)? This year, with its downsizing, must be the first time in over 3 decades that I haven't had shallots. They are seriously missed. Recent years have been this mess over several seasons of growing offspring of what was originally a French hybrid variety. With every saved seed episode, they were more diverse and further from the original French type. Well, I say "original" but I certainly don't know what the parents were of the hybrid.

I have never grown potato onions but with so much change but still small multipliers, I wondered if maybe that was a parent. Anyway, the good thing was that they still had a shallot flavor. So, i didn't lose much by messing around ;). However, knowing what the harvest will look like and a consistency, adds something positive to my gardening experience.

Steve
 

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@Zeedman you know onions!! Thanks for this info, I feel like I know I what I'm growing now! 👍 Maybe time to start experimenting with onions, I have a friend whose gotten very into perennial vegetables so I'm getting drawn in too.

and here we go! :) i really like onion flowers and also eating onions (we eat a lot of onions - to the point that a lot of people mention that when we give them food that perhaps we can use less onions... :) :) :) ).
 

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I have a few walking onions near the chives. I no longer remember where they came from ... or, why ;). They are much too strong flavored to be appreciated.

No mention of shallots :)? This year, with its downsizing, must be the first time in over 3 decades that I haven't had shallots. They are seriously missed. Recent years have been this mess over several seasons of growing offspring of what was originally a French hybrid variety. With every saved seed episode, they were more diverse and further from the original French type. Well, I say "original" but I certainly don't know what the parents were of the hybrid.

I have never grown potato onions but with so much change but still small multipliers, I wondered if maybe that was a parent. Anyway, the good thing was that they still had a shallot flavor. So, i didn't lose much by messing around ;). However, knowing what the harvest will look like and a consistency, adds something positive to my gardening experience.

Steve
You don't eat the green walking onions? I grew shallots once many years ago, but they didn't seem to taste very different from the onions - which were bigger. I might feel different now though; do you feel the flavor difference is really significant?
 
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