Bunching onions

[veggiechicken]

If you planted a Bunching onion seed what would you expect to grow? Can you tell me without Goggling?

Just curious to know what you think, because I think I have been confused for years (OK OK, you don't need to agree so readily )

[Guest]

Whyyyyyyyyyyy? I haven't actually grown them they are sat in my box having a long wait However, I would expect little black seeds that throw up a grass like shoot like most alliums. Is this a trick question?

When you say bunching onion do you been Japanese bunching onion, or are we in the realms of allium confusion like welsh onions, spring onions etc?

[Bren In Pots]

I'd go for big looking spring onions.

[veggiechicken]

Not really a trick question, NG (would I? ) More that I keep seeing seeds described as "bunching onion" that I have always called something different.
i suppose it comes down to the meaning of "bunch"

[Bren In Pots]

I thought the bunch bit came from tying them together ?

[Aberdeenplotter]

I think spring onions. you buy them in a bunch tied together with a blue elastic band. . Innit

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I'll find out soon if the seed I got is any good. I put some in modules last week. I have resisted googling so far. I take it you got the Welsh ones from that website the other week?

[rustylady]

No googling - I would have thought spring onions

[arpoet]

I think spring onions. you buy them in a bunch tied together with a blue elastic band. . Innit

Clever how they get em to grow in a blue rubber band.

[arpoet]

Poor VC... confused again.. twice in one week.... and its only monday.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks everyone. You all seem to think its a single stalked, spring onion and the bunch means that they're tied in bunches for sale!!

To me, a Bunching onion meant that it would grow multiple stalks, which could be pulled apart, a bit like a shallot. I've been waiting patiently for the Japanese Bunching onions to throw up extra stems, and not picking them, in case I ruined my chances.

Guess I might as well pull them and eat them now

[veggiechicken]

As an afterthought - is any other veg named because of the way its packaged for sale?
We don't grow stringing onions or sacked potatoes

[Jay-ell]

I would have thought along the same lines of spring onions, although I think I have seen some multiplier onions (Welsh, perpetual, everlasting) that have been badges as punching.

[Greenleaves]

Are stringless beans just beans that haven't been strung together?

[Chippy Minton]

Guess I might as well pull them and eat them now

Don't forget to pull them in bunches