I have really been getting into pickling, experimenting (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) with unusual vegetables. One of my projects this year is pickling onions & garlic.

I will be attempting to grow pearl onions (A. sphaerocephalum) this fall... but meanwhile, I was removing some of the bulbs from a short, yellow ornamental allium that is proliferating _rapidly_ in my flower garden. The bulbs are perhaps 1/2" wide, nearly perfect teardrops, with flat leaves and a very slight garlic aroma. Given how rapidly they multiply, if edible (and palatable?) they could be a good source for small pickled "onions".

Does anyone have any experience trying ornamental alliums as edibles?