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!

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!

http://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/08/onion-wild.html

If they smell like onions, they're edible.

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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

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.

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.



--
--Bryan Simmons
"The 1960's called. They want their recipe back."
--Steve Wertz in rec.food.cooking 4-20-2009

Steve Peek wrote:
....
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 i were into making cheese that might be an
interesting use of such an otherwise wasted
product. at least worth an experiment or two...


songbird