Friday 9 October 2015

Egyptian Onions and Amish ones .


This morning was spent sorting out some Egyptian Walking  Onions for a friend on the forum Allotments4all  ....I have learnt so much from everyone on this wonderful website.


Actually these are the more sought after ones ..the Amish Egyptian Walking Onions.
There are several different varieties ..I also have the ordinary white one .
The Amish ones are red. It produces bulbils on the top of the flower shoots ..which eventually fall over and deposit the bulbils some distance away from the mother plant.
I usually leave them for a bit , then when I see a few little white roots appearing , I separate them and replant them....some I leave together if it looks like they might be damaged if I pull them apart ..or sometimes I just leave the whole little clump of them on the surface to put down roots and separate them the following year .


Yes they are edible ! Bulbs and shoots .... I know you can grow bigger and better onions ..but with these..you know that you will always have some on the go .
Ancient little creatures these ! If anything grows on Mars ...it will be this odd looking thing !


Although quite tough ..I always move mine into a sheltered zone if we get a very cold winter. They die back and come up again in the Spring .
 When they get bigger you can plant them out or grow them in large pots as I do .


   They do have flowers too , just not so many .... and this little bee is loving it !
             If it is good enough for the bees , then it is good enough for me .


9 comments:

  1. I love your description of these little onions. Your last picture shows the beauty of the structure. Nature has some wonderful things to delight us with.

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    1. I just love watching the bees ........ Your white foxglove seeds are in the post : )

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    2. Received this morning, many thanks...also the chocolates will be used to 'toast' your good health.

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  2. Beautiful pictures and love the colour contrast.
    I'm looking forward to growing these.

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    1. Yours are the ones in the first two pics ....plus somewhere I also have some of the ordinary white ones . Will post 'em off to you on Monday : )

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  3. Have never heard of walking onions!
    Tried to leave a comment on your new blog but it is for team members only apparently.

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  4. Oh ! Sorry about that ...I always monitor incoming mail...but you should be able to follow and comment I have to be careful of people copying my work too .. I,m still just setting it up and there's alot of rocket scientist language that I just dont understand . Hopefully get it up and running smoothly soon .

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  5. Fascinating! I've never heard of these before. As I haven't got a veggie plot (yet!) I have to make do with with supermarket onions.

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  6. These could be grown in a large pot .

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