Grow Egyptian walking onions to eat organic onion and save money. Plant them once and harvest the leaves for years.
How do you harvest and use Egyptian walking onions
You harvest Egyptian walking onion (Allium proliferum) as early as March in spring depending on where you live. You harvest the green onion again in fall. In our garden zone 5A they start to grow back at the end of August.
Whether in spring or fall, start to harvest the leaves of Egyptian walking onion when the leaves are at least one foot tall.
You can use the leaves as green onions in salad or in your cooking as an alternative to regular onion.
How do you harvest winter onion leaves?
Snap the leaves with your hands few inches above the center leaving at least 2 leaves on each onion bulb plant.
In spring you could harvest a lot of leaves if you start early. Once in summer, they onions would stop growing new leaves and grow the middle stalk that would carry the small onion bulbs.
In fall, or in September, you could start to harvest the greens again until winter.
When do you harvest Egyptian walking onion bulbils in summer?
In summer, once the onion bulb in the ground is done feeding the small top onions, the stalk carrying the top onions will start to turn yellow or brown. That is a cue that the bulbils are ready to be harvested to replant. When you leave them alone, the weight of the top onion will bend the stalk to touch the ground and the top onions will root in place and start to grow when the weather is right.
Are Egyptian walking onion bulbils edible?
Yes, the Egyptian walking onion bulbils are edible. You can harvest them in summer to use in your salad or in your cooking. You can eat some and plant some to increase your onion patch. Overtime, you will have enough onion supply from your garden you may not need to purchase regular onion from the grocery store. In July in zone 5A the top onions could be harvested for eating.
In summer, you can also harvest the mother bulb from the ground for eating. They don’t last long in storage. Therefore, be light in harvesting the onion bulbs from the ground.
If you want to grow a sustainable garden, plant Egyptian walking onion, as it is a perennial onion and keep propagating them by planting the top onions to have enough that will product enough green onion for your household supply.
When you harvest the green onion, rinse them, chop, and store in freezer bags for winter use. During the growing season, you harvest green onion straight from the garden for eating and cooking, and you harvest to freeze for winter use as well.
Do Egyptian walking onions come back every year?
Yes, Egyptian walking onion also called winter onion is hardy and a perennial onion that comes back every year. You plant once and you harvest the top onion bulbs to replant to propagate in your garden.
Egyptian walking onion is low maintenance perennial onion that is better left in the ground all year. It doesn’t last past 1 month in storage or so whether it is the bulb from the ground or the bulbs from the top.
When to Harvest Egyptian Walking Onions in Summer?
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