you can buy scallion bunches and cut them down to the roots and then plant the roots and let them regrow. I do it all the time...in fact I just stick them in my front flower bed so they get mostly shade and keep them well watered. They taste slightly mellower than store bought. Probably from them being grown in soil and not hydroponically.

Fabio, when the weather gets cooler you can find onion starters in the big box stores, the whole bunch. I got my short day granex onions red and white and also shallots at the local feed store.

Prices are really inexpensive and you can plant them anywhere that you have space, use them as green onions or let them bulb up.

I had onions from the sets for me and friends for a long time, still have some outside the garden, it is too hot now to keep them in the ground.

Silvia

I've been planting escallions from seeds for some time now. My only problem is that I get more plants than I have space for but they do well in pots, then when I reap, I plant in the space. I also planted what were supposed to be chive seeds but they grew big when I planted them so they are basically escallions. One seed packet gives lots of plants. They seem to love shade.

WOW!!!! Now I am going to show my own stupidity, what is a escallion? I know green onions, the long skinny dark leaf with a write head. I know chives, they make my niece quit breathing with one bite, but I love them. Both verities are wonderful. I never knew how to find them or grow them and in one fail swoop....you gave it all to me!!

Thank you!!! Calene

I grow scallions from seed as well - & I often see the Evergreen bunching seeds in stores. Mine this year are Crimson Forest red bunching onions (from a catalog), & in the past, I've grown Egyptian (walking) onions - a perennial that multiplies & is stronger tasting than scallions. I miss them & will likely get some more for the next season.

A store-bought success for me was shallots - I planted a couple last year & they went to seed & I grew out the seeds & used them like scallions.

I don't usually pull them up, but rather cut off the green tops to use & leave the plants to continue growing.

(& I think 'escallion' may be either a typo or a colloquialism)

FWIW, HTH

Scallion, escallion, green onion, Japanese bunching onion, salad onion, chives, spring onion, and others, these names are ambiguous as they refer to any type of young green hollow stalk from a non bulbing onion. Allium fistulosum, (fistulosum means hollow)

Lou