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What is this on my onions and what do I do about it?

Those are flowers that turn to seeds.

So what can or should I do?

Could I some how get the seeds and replant them?

Now that you have them, let them mature an turn brown an collect the seeds when they are black an dry.

if they are regular onions, you should pinch the tops off them when they occur to eliminate take over.

b

probally would have helped to spread them out a little too .....

What does one do with these?
i think
ELEPHANT WALKING ONIONS?

They lived all winter there. THe bottoms arent large an the tops are ?

Anyone know?

dodge

Well onions are biennial, did you have those two seasons. They grow a bulb the first year and go to seed the next.
I buy onion bulbs here to plant, never have planted seeds(my zone is finicky and cold) so I'm not sure on the correct harvesting. But I have noticed that if you plant bulbs when it's warm, then get a cold snap the flowers will appear, I always snip them off as soon as I see them. The flowers take all the energy away from the onion and the bulb stops growing.

Dodge, walking onions are grown here just for the greens..no one eats the bulbs, they taste too strong I find.

Then I should eat the tops like chives?
I have that too.

Egyptian walking onions, is that the name? Someone sent them an they keep multiplying.

Do you thin them ?

thanks
dodge

Yup, like a chive kinda, I use them in soups Barb..they freeze well also. Just cut them in one inch pieces.

Yup, that's the name...they tend to multiply and walk all over the garden, they root so easily...

I find if you cut them often, they don't multiply as fast...I do thin them also...by giving away 'starts'.

Tam

How cute of you .

I could do well to use them . Freeze an probably add them to the carrots or cabbage as I freeze, them for soups.

Thanks

dodge