Friday, July 6, 2012

Walking Egyptian Onions



Through a fortunate coincidence, I discovered that a friend of mine, (Daniel Etchelecou) had a garden in which were growing the fabled Walking Egyptian Onions! He gave me a few of the onion sets (those little onions that grow at the end of the onion stalk) for me to take home and plant.

After I got home, I decided to ‘start’ some new onions by planting some of the sets into potting mix in a six cell starter tray. I figured that once these go to growing, I could transplant them out to select sites in my garden. Walking onions are also known as winter onions, a fact that attests to how hardy the plant is. I plan to update this post every now and then as time goes by.

Update: Almost a year has gone by and the small plants that were placed in a raised bed in my backyard are now growing in fine style as of March 30, 2013!

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