A few weeks ago we found an onion in our dry storage that had begun to sprout. We seized the opportunity and let it sit to sprout even more so that we could plant it and have our own onions. It didn't take long until we had beautiful, long, healthy green onion shouts. We split the onion in thirds, because we had so many roots to plant, and planted them in a large terracotta planter.
The shoots were doing great! The originals began to wilt a little, totally normal.
What was really important is that NEW healthy growth had begun. We decided to give the healthy shoots some room to grow. So we harvested all the wilting green onion. Using kitchen shears we snipped them as close to the stalk as possible all while being careful to leave the new growth in tact.
We were left with three well rooted stalks all with new growth AND a pile of delicious green onions that we froze (mostly) and will be able to use for weeks!
As they continue to grow we will monitor them and may need to transplant one or more of them out of the large planter they are in currently. But for now the experiment of "seed onioning" is going very well! What could have easily ended up as compost will now help feed us through the coming months! I love nature. I'm so amazed at what it can accomplish and what we can accomplish ourselves if we work in tandem with it.
You know me...I love capitalizing on "waste". Simple and almost free, just how I like it.
Simple City Sam
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