garlic/onion habits?
(Suggested by the 'Speaking of garlic' thread) How come onions and
garlic grow to maturity, have the foliage die back, are harvested, dried somewhat, and then start growing new leaves as the bulb shrinks and decays? If you leave them in the ground, do they act like daffodils, coming up every year and dying back? Garlic cloves are planted to produce bulbs, which is a lot like a daffodil producing little adjacent bulbs, but I've never heard of leaving an onion in the ground to reproduce. What's the deal with our fragrant frends? |
garlic/onion habits?
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garlic/onion habits?
Not the Karl Orff wrote:
I think you can leave them. Tulips live in the same manner. Not all onions are "multipliers." Many, perhaps most, are biennial and will produce a flower and seeds the second year. I raise my own leek seed this way. Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1200' elevation. NY WO G |
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