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29-01-2003, 12:09 AM

(zxcvbob) wrote in :

"Lorenzo L. Love" wrote:

Anne Middleton/Harold Walker wrote:

I think you are looking for "potato onions".........just type in
'potato onions' on Yahoo.........you should find them
there......suspect the only problem will be getting them at this
time of the year.......typically they are a fall planting
onion...........HW

Also called multiplier onions. Territorial has them. You're right, too
late to plant them this year.

When I was a kid we had multiplier onions that *never* formed a bulb.
They just kept dividing, and when you pulled some up for a salad, you
broke one off the bunch and replanted it. They looked like scallions
that you buy in the supermarket, but they were a little smaller and
tasted like shallots. IIRC, you could plant them year-round, but that
was in Texas where the ground never froze and the multiplying onions
stayed green all winter. I've planted shallots before, and it's not the
same thing -- and the shallots are not nearly as prolific.

Best regards,
Bob

Check out evergreen bunching onions, they never form bulbs and are hardy
into at least z6. You start them from seed and can pull your first onions
in the fall. I got mine from Stokes.