Egyptian Walking Onions

[zazen999]

Zazen - just thought I'd let you know that I planted them up - a little later than I should have - and one has already got a little green shoot on it about ½inch tall!

Another was rather small and pathetic and has since failed - but I'm sure its bros/sis will do well and be ready for planting out next year - cheers.

I got about 11 initial sets; and put some into the seed parcel that went missing originally......but from the 8-9 that remained I got 280+ sets from it in its first year. So hopefully yes, you will get lots soon.

[chriscross1966]

I've got several sorts of tree onions... they're all very hardy, better off outdoors in this country than sitting in a greenhouse getting botrytis certainly. The topsets make excellent pickles cos they're as hard as bullets and stay crunchy. The lower sets (the big untidy shallot thing) does yield a strongly flavoured onion... but it's a proper faff to peel.... I'd stick with using the top sets for pickles...

chrisc

[Shadylane]

Aren't the top sets even faffier to peel though cos they're so wee?

[binley100]

Mine are in the garden and are only about 6" high. Will they survive the Winter?

[zazen999]

Mine are in the garden and are only about 6" high. Will they survive the Winter?

Absolutely!

[binley100]

Good good.......

[Mell]

I've got several sorts of tree onions...

chrisc

Several sorts ? How do they differ ? I have one sort & they look like the sorts I had years ago, please tell more ?