Nice harvest!

You grew some alliums I don't know much about. Can you tell me more about the multipliers? How do you grow them and why do you grow them in addition to the others?

Are the tulip baby bulbs a type of allium or are they small bulbs that hopefully will produce tulip flowers in a few years?.... From your Old Dutch name, I'm thinking they are regular flowering tulips like I love and not alliums at all. I grew up in Holland, Michigan and have seen A LOT of tulips through the years. I know it is hard to keep track of the little offset bulbs until they are large enough to bloom. Have you had success with them? The rabbits in the area where I live now have just about converted me to a daffodil fan. Every year rabbits seem to find a way past my fencing, etc. and wreck the tulips.

Multipliers also known as potato onions and in some places various kinds are also known as shallots are part of the Allium cepa species in the Aggregatum Group along with shallots. They seldom flower, and are usually grown from bulbs separated off the clusters they make. They are hardy as far north as zone 4 depending on the variety and may be planted in early spring or in the fall like garlic (if the particular cultivar is hardy enough). They come in yellow, white and red just like bulbing onions, although you seldom see anything but the yellow being offered these days.

The yellows store beautifully with cases of being usable or plantable into the second year in storage. Red or French Shallots which are closely related (also part of Aggregatum Group) generally do not store as well. The so called yellow Dutch Shallots are really more of potato onion and store very well. There is a whole pile of name juggling through out this group, except supposedly by the French purists.

They are all multiplying onions though, and like bulbing onions not only do storage time vary; so does the taste and the uses they are suited for. BTW most multipliers are much smaller than the true bulbing onions, but not all of them. This year my white Kelly Winterton's Green Mountain yielded sizes very similar to my Copra plants, but not many daughter bulbs per set. I am impressed to say the least! Kelly has done some amazing breeding work sizing up the true seedlings he has been able to develop.

One usually also plants the biggest bulbs for the largest number of smaller bulbs and the smaller ones to size up but have fewer daughter bulbs, but size also varies between varieties.

There is quite a bit of info on potato onions, multiplier onions, available by google.

BTW the tulips are Red Appeldoorns, a standard Triumph tulip. They have been multiplying into a huge number of tiny daughter bulbs along with some moderate sized bloomers. What are left there are the bottom size after about 100 of the largest have already been sorted off. To me tulips can be any color as long as they are red. The Appeldorns fit that to a T. I also don't have to worry about maintaining a mixture of colors either. I started out with one bag of about 3 dozen a couple of years ago. I dig them every year and reset them. This year I got most clumps of bulbs with some 6 to 8 daughter bulbs all much smaller than I really like, and only a few on the small side of what I want for bloomers. I use these tulips to separate the varieties of garlics from each other. I dig them shortly after petal drop most years, but this year I delayed longer than I wanted due to some health problems. (Although my ancestry is only half Dutch, I really am old...) Usually the tulips are dug, well cured and bagged well before it is close to garlic harvest time, but this year the tulips had to wait a while. So you see most of the harvest crowded together this time.

Thanks for the detailed info. I've been confused by the multiplier group and guess I've become trapped in some of the name juggling and could not sort it out.

I have yellow shallots, so I guess I could say I have multipliers and even potato onions if I choose to call them that :) I have some recent additions that came from a clearance bag that was first offered for sale in the early spring in my zone 5 area. Most were still in good shape in July when I purchased them for 75% off. I plan to add those to some others that I'll be planting back this fall. They certainly did keep well for a long time.

Just last year I was given a few walking onions and they have grown well and have a lot of top sets. I'll be able to plant as many as I want when resetting them this fall. They are fun plants even if I never eat any of them!

I've harvested about 2/3 of my garlic, about 5-10 plants of 15-20 varieties, some from more than one source. Probably about 150 bulbs by time they are all in. Many are huge and some are definitely not. It's interesting to see how some supposedly identical varieties look very different. I think some may have gotten mixed up at the farmers market where I bought some of my "duplicates". Not my mix up there, though. I labeled them as I selected them by writing right on the wrappers with my trusty Sharpie marker :)

I have a few leeks that I grew from seed in 2014 that overwintered and are flowering. Also, sweet onions from transplants, and cooking onions from sets...so I'm working on getting the allium group and various growing methods straightened out in my head.

I had to bite my tongue and give a civil informative reply when I recently heard of people "walking down" their garlic. I guess a few years back I didn't know what to do with some of my alliums either...and likely still have a lot to learn.

I'm with you on tulips being red. That's the best color and Appledorns are a shape I like a lot. Guess I'll keep trying to win against the rabbits and deer and not go to only daffodils. At least the critters leave the daylilies alone for now and I've been enjoying the new show each day.