jrstark wrote in news:VUfNa.35049$Xm3.7431
@sccrnsc02:

Alexander Pensky wrote:

Yes, they are dormant now. The shoots are mostly gone by mid-May up
here in Ohio, so probably a month or two earlier where you are.

I don't know where they get their energy. Apparently if the shoots
are up for even a few days, it feeds the bulbs enough so that
they don't die and keep trying again, even though the shoots have
been pulled. If I just pull the shoots, they will resprout two or
three times, until the weather gets too hot for them.

When I dig out the bulbs, there are many -- dozens -- but they
are mostly tiny, about 2-3 mm diameter. It's amazing how much
green top can come from such a tiny bulb and roots!

Yours may be a different kind of onion, or maybe they don't
spread so much in the hotter climate. Maybe you won't have
the problems with them that I did.

- Alex

Is this Star of Bethlehem? Tall chive-like leaves and white flowers?
They do die back after blooming, we have them all over.

Janine


I don't know what mine were. I think they smelled like onions or chives,
don't really remember. Foliage consisted of single stalk, definitely
similar to wild onions I have seen, but thin, guessing 1-2 millimeters in
thickness even at the base. After they got about 6" tall, I snipped them
low and probably pulled the landscape fabric back over them (so they
would have to grow narrow tips to pierce the fabric again). Could be
cold weather plants like Alex said, today going be in the 90s here!
Never saw the flowers. Maybe they are still there or the slugs got them
for all I know.

Thanks to Alex for the heads-up, I'll keep a look out for them after it
gets cooler. Everybody have a nice holiday.

-- Salty