ping Songbird: onion seeds
 

Hi Songbird,

These are what my green onion flowers look like now.
They are 2 to 3" balls. Is it time to shot off the
top 12"?

https://ibb.co/Bw13wgf

-T

ping Songbird: onion seeds
 

T wrote:
Hi Songbird,

These are what my green onion flowers look like now.
They are 2 to 3" balls. Is it time to shot off the
top 12"?

https://ibb.co/Bw13wgf

i'd let them go a bit longer, when those green
pods start splitting open then you will see some
black seeds. that is when i normally would cut
off the flower head and put it in a box top to
finish drying.


songbird

ping Songbird: onion seeds
 

On 2020-06-26 03:52, songbird wrote:
T wrote:
Hi Songbird,

These are what my green onion flowers look like now.
They are 2 to 3" balls. Is it time to shot off the
top 12"?

https://ibb.co/Bw13wgf

i'd let them go a bit longer, when those green
pods start splitting open then you will see some
black seeds. that is when i normally would cut
off the flower head and put it in a box top to
finish drying.


songbird


Thank you!

You remarked about bees liking these things, every
flying bug goes after them!

Does the plant die after I harvest the tops? Or
does this happen every year?

ping Songbird: onion seeds
 

T wrote:
....
Thank you!

You remarked about bees liking these things, every
flying bug goes after them!

Does the plant die after I harvest the tops? Or
does this happen every year?

onions are normally biennials (takes two years to
go from seed to seed).

sometimes you can get bits of the plant to keep
growing longer and splitting off more bulbs but it
may not persist for forever so keep some seeds from
each season and plant a few to keep the plant line
going if you value it. :)

it seems i mostly grow bunching onions here as bee
forage and entertainment and decoration. for some
reason i have a block on harvesting and eating them.
i just don't know what to do with these plants and i
don't cook with them at all right now. i need to
sometime i just don't actually get around to it. :)
haha, people can be funny creatures. :) ...

in this case with these particular bunching onions
i think it is because they are so different from what
i expected that i really should (and have tried) to
get a different kind going too - one's that i'd
actually eat.


songbird