Steve Peek wrote in
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On Sunday, April 13, 2014 7:26:48 AM UTC-4, Jenna A wrote:
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!

Wild onions are very common in the SE USA. They are edible but very
strong. The farmers hate them because cattle will eat them and the
milk or butter is unsaleable.

If they really are wild, as opposed to *feral* onions, they'd taste nasty,
and it sounds like the bulb size is too large for wild.



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