On Sun, 02 May 2004 19:05:33 GMT, (Rez)
wrote:

In article , wrote:
the season before onions are mature, and there are egyptian onions
whose tops are very sweet in the early spring. They get kind of hot
and woody as they prepare to shoot up and grow the little bulblettes
that grow on the tops. You can use the little bulblettes. They're
also called Walking onions as the bulblettes get heavy eventually and
the leave they're atop falls over.. planting their young the distance

Missed this part ... that must have been what we had in the garden
when I was a kid -- it was some random kitchen onion that had gotten
too "growthy" so we stuck it outside in the flower garden. It came up
every year, made a BIG blue flower ball, then a BIG clump of baby
onions, which we'd plant and use later on. This is really the kind I
wanted for my "onion flower garden" but didn't know the variety, so
thanks for the mention -- what would I look for specifically in a
seed variety?

~REZ~

The egyptian onions I have produce white flowers. Not sure what
exactly you're asking about as to what to look for in a seed variety.
There are all kinds of onions you can grow from seed. The only thing
I know of you need to look for are short or long day specific ..
depending on where you live. Now.. knowing which to get for where you
live.. that's another story ;-) I dunno. You get one if you live in
the south, and the other in the north. It's the day length that
triggers the onion to bulb up and go dormant I think. Think I read
something about it being day length more than temperature that makes
spinach bolt too, but not too sure about that one. ;-) What do you
want to grow? Where are you? south or north? At this point in the
year, I think you'd be better off buying started onions or at least
use sets, dime size or smaller or they'll try to go to seed...if they
do try to bolt, pinch out the seed spike. Cover them up with remay if
you have the onion maggot problem that I had.

Janice