Beautiful, Steve!

Nice.

Very nice harvest, Steve!

I'll share with you how I transplant the tiny things ... not much bigger than dog hairs.

Hold them between the index finger and the middle finger (not, your thumb and index finger). Scratch the soil, that has been made as soft as you can get it. Use just those 2 digits, holding the onion seedling loosely. Leave the seedling behind in the soil ...

Scratch, scratch, scratch ... latex or nitrile gloves are a good idea. Before you know it, you've filled a bed with onions!

Steve

I mentioned elsewhere that back in February, I did a planter box with a whole bunch of evergreen green onions, figuring I could use them like chives. Thats been working well. Today I thought I'd pull some up today and use the white bits in a pasta salad.

As if. That whole box is nothing but roots.

Nice looking onions, Steve! I bet they taste even better than they look, too.

I am growing onions for the first time this year, so your harvest photo is encouraging. I started out with seeds, but when only a few of one variety germinated (Milestones) I ended up replanting the "bare" areas with onion sets (Colorado sweet red onions.) I am looking forward to my first (small) onion harvest, but it will be a while yet.

What happened to your evergreen onions, David? It sounded like a good idea to me....why didn't it work? Too many planted in the box? At least you are getting to eat the tops as chives.

Holly

Way too many planted in the box. It works great for a chive substitute. I have the box just outside the kitchen door. It just failed when I tried to remove a dozen or so complete plants to get at the white bits. I think I'll give the whole box a short military haircut so that it goes back to growing evenly instead of hit-miss where we've been snipping away.

Those are what are called Welsh onions right, David?

I really don't know my onions, knowing nothing of Welsh onions. I bet as soon as I try to get a handle on them, something else will come along.

ッ Steve

Steve, I don't know much about them, I first tried them as many sources say they are very winter hardy.

Thats putting it mildly. If you don't dig them, they come back the next year with a vengeance - packed in there, then they go to seed. The suggestion to divide and replant them doesn't work. That said, the seed is cheap, its very easy to leave 4-5 plants and collect all the seed you'd ever need, and they're a nice, sweet, mild green onion. evergreen onion seed

Wait a minute!

http://www.kitazawaseed.com/seed_072-201.html

I've grown these a number of times! Allium fistulosum ... I didn't know these were what is called "Welsh" and a separate species. I've got Tokyo White in the garden this year along with other bunching onions. Heck's Fire!

I learned some time ago that "welsh" was what Germanic language speakers called something or someone, "foreign." I was left wondering what the people of Wales think of this ... okay, here's an onion ... from Asia. Yours must be an especially hardy perennial, David

Steve

rolling eyes toward Heaven

I'm not a real fan of red onions. It seems like there are plenty of whites that are more refined in flavor and texture.

However, these are Red Devils (and they don't deserve the name ;o). There is nothing devilish about them. They will get to be big bulb onions, if my first experience with them last year is an indication of anything.

Steve

Good ideas in here. Might try a little patch of Welsh in a corner since it is so hard to grow onions in this yard. At this point I'll try anything.