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Old 13-04-2014, 02:59 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Wild onions
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We just moved over on this farm property and
there are wild onions EVERYWHERE! I love picking
them and smelling them. They look like normal
onions that I grow except a little smaller and
are white bulbs--Question is, can we eat them? If
so, we will not be needing onions from the store
for quite sometime. Mind you, I have a 16 month
old who sometimes eats adult scraps- well, all
of the time. Gerber food isn't cutting it for
her so she gets baby portions and i wouldn't
forgive myself if I made her sick!

it might just be that the place was used to
grow onions and they never got them all out.
i'd love a place like that too.

i would not overdo it on any one vegetable for
a child. varied diet is much better and gets
them used to different tastes.

if you make a pan of them and eat that without
problems i doubt you will be in trouble later, but
if you want to be more certain post pictures and
take some whole plants (including flowers) to a
horticultural specialist.


songbird
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