Egyptian walking onions - available now!

These are our favorite perennial onions!  Also known as tree onions, these onions are truly amazing. The entire plant is edible and there are many ways to enjoy their onion-ey goodness. The greens can be cut and eaten throughout the season like a delicious green onion.  They will send up a flower stalk with edible small onions on top (called bulbils), that are tasty.  And the tubers can be thinned as your patch grows and the bulb eaten like a shallot.  So little work and so much flavor!  

Here are some of the reasons why we love Egyptian Walking Onions...

1) FLAVOR  - These perennial onions are so yummy!  Bulbs and bulbils have a shallot flavor great in many dishes. Greens have a scallion flavor.  

2) LOW MAINTENANCE - These are the easiest onions you'll ever grow!  Except for harvesting and watering. these plants need little care. Every few years a thinning and light composting will refresh your patch.

3) PROLIFIC - The little bulbils at the top of these onions will root when the stalks fall over in the fall, planting themselves and growing your patch, giving the impression that they are walking around your garden.

We have a limited supply of these amazing perennial onions, so get yours now!

These onions are amazing!!

I love those things. One of the easiest most prolific and resilient plants I have. Thrives on STUN. I bought two plants at a farmers market five years ago and have plenty to use and share every year. I can dig up one whenever I need one, even in the middle of winter here in zone 6.

Jenny Wright wrote:Thrives on STUN.

What is STUN?

Robin Katz wrote:

Jenny Wright wrote:Thrives on STUN.

What is STUN?

Sheer total utter neglect! 😁 It means completely ignoring it, providing no care and possibly planting not in the best spot on your land. A way to see if something is as vigorous and disease and pests resistant as the common weeds on your land. Also a great way to select things grown by seed. Like you might want to STUN a bunch of fruit tree seeds by scattering hundreds in an area and the ones that survive being STUNned are going to be amazingly hardy.

Ah. So you're describing my typical way of gardening...

Actually, I do about half regular care but do a lot of the STUN type of gardening to see what thrives. I've found some real gems that way.

When is the best time of year to plant the bulbils?  Does the stalk supporting them need to be dry to harvest them for planting, or just anytime there are bulbils, can you pull some off and plant them?

My favorite way of propagating them is to bend the supporting stalk so that the bulbils are touching the ground next to the parent plant. I put a little soil over the bulbils to encourage rooting although that's not always necessary since they will root all on their own. Once the baby plant is somewhat established I dig it up and replant where I want it. The parent plant will continue feeding the baby as long as the stalk is green so I think it gives a head start on rooting and growing.

With that said, I've also cut the stalk in half while still green and planted the baby in the new location. They do come up usually. I have never done a comparison test on viability and growth characteristics so I can't say which method is better.