I found a source for the seeds. Unfortunately, the company that I found that sells the plants are sold out. If you buy these seeds, please be sure to sow them shallow into good, lightweight seed starting mix. www.southernexposure.com/products/evergreen-hardy-white-bunching-onion/
I am from Michigan and I have winter onions from my great grandmother to grandmother to me. I know they are at least 150 years old. They come up in the fall and die off, com3 back in the spring and if it was a hard winter, they re the mildest things you ever ate!
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A neighbor gave me some green onions to plant in my garden. I have a squirrel problem because another neighbor keeps feeding them walnuts and they come into my yard and dig up my lawn and garden burying the nuts. I marveled that they can smell where they planted the walnuts so I thought, boy they must have a REAL good sense of smell. I decided to take some of the onions that my neighbor gave me and chop them up and strew them through the yard. OMG! It was like all the squirrels left town! My yard is eerily void of squirrels. When they get their nuts from my neighbor, instead of walking along my fence, they go up the telephone pole and walk past my yard on the wires! They want nothing to do with my yard. Now I will be planting them for a free repellent also.
I've been poking the root part of green onions in the ground for years because they give me the green tops for garnishes, but I had no idea they'd multiply like this. That said, I threw some garlic out into the yard and the garlic has formed a big clump. It's time for me to dig down and find out what's under the ground.
@bootman26 I'm jealous. I am a hopeless gardener and have never been able to grow anything and here you are, just casually poking things into the ground and THEY GROW! I wasn't even able to grow cannabis and that just grows wild next to every path the farm workers walk along, here in South Africa.
I had a nursery and propagated The reason you cut back the greens or the flower on any plant is to give the roots more nutrition instead of sending it up through the stock
The reason to cut back plants you are propagating is to reduce water loss through the leaves via transpiration. There is no “nutrition for roots without leaves to photosynthesize.
I'm not sure it's true of ALL green onions but it sure would be worth the try. These are slightly different from the ones in the grocery store. If you succeed, I would sure love to hear back from you!
Yes!! You can also plant the bottom slice of an onion too. I did a long video that shows how to do that and a short video about regrowing veggies. Maybe you can check it out and grow onions like you do your green onions. Love your input.
This works if you havean organic romaine lettuce and also celery too. Just cut off the end and stick it root side down and try will grow if you keep them watered.
Oh the voice of cock crow makes me remember my childhood in countryside of Vietnam! They wake me up for school, walking a mile away. After school, I work on my family garden. Now I live in San Diego with little back yard as retiree after 45 years working in USA.Thank you for the tips and the noise of chicken. Thank you people of USA.
I bought this house 10 years ago and I am still mowing onions in the backyard.. lol They had a garden and a half of onions and the backyard trees and privacy fence covered with grapes 🍇,,i left the grapes, they're everywhere, i mow the onions.. lol it smells interesting in my backyard after I mow the grass.. lol 😊
Green onions have gotten so expensive at the store I have stopped buying them. I will get some bunching onions most definitely. I love to use them in fried rice by the fistfuls and in my scrambled eggs.
I dry my green tops and process them through the coffee grinder. This makes onion powder, useful in everything. I do the same with celery tops. No waste at all and gives immune health when sprinkled in savoury dishes. You must remember that 1 tspn of dried or dehydrated powder is worth 4 bunching onion stems or 2 celery stems, very potent stuff.
I have celery that is "regrown" from the bottom of used celery. I wasn't sure what to do with the resulting plants. They tend to be tough because of the heat. This sounds like a great way to be sure to use the stems.
I do that too with celery and you are first I’ve heard besides me! I find that the dehydrated and ground up celery leaves and stems act like a natural “MSG” in that they enhance the flavor of whatever I’m cooking without giving a strong celery flavor. Plus I love all the added nutrition I’m adding to dishes. And you can’t buy ground celery powder, so only way to make it is grow it. Now I’m gonna add “onion powder” from green tops as well. Thank you!
You are a good friend! Where did you get your seeds? The seeds that come from my bunching onions don't make good bunching onions. Just the scrawny ones you see near the end of the video.
@@debbiesorganicgarden hi I live in Malaysia, during lockup i managed to get new stock of bunching onion seeds from one of Malaysia well known seed company. Nowadays, with people working, they no longer have new seeds, just selling old onion and chives seed stocks. My chives and bunching onion never bolted, maybe because i always harvest the leaves, cleaned and freeze them. We don't have winter here and my chives and spring onion self divided themselves 3 times a year so my supply so far is constant.
How do you overwinter them? Or are you in the South? Ohio is warming, as is the rest of the planet. But it is not yet warm enough to harvest onions through the winter months.
@@thisbushnell2012 Malaysia has a tropical rainforest climate with a monsoon spike in rainfall. "Winter" is just the time it's slightly cooler. Still hot and wet
WOW! This was great Thank you. I'm 88 but I just got my seeds from my library and now I am never going to have to pay .99 cents again for 6 little onions. Gut back and divide, just like Iris. God bless you, my dear.
Yay! a fellow senior citizen still staying active! Thank you for you kind words. I hope the seeds are the right kind. I did not start mine from seeds so I can't advise you except to not bury them too deep. Onion seeds can take a long time to germinate too.
Awesome. I grew both welsh bunching onions and red bunching onions from seed a few years ago. Im almost at the stage of needing to divide do this was very helpful thank you.
I bought some green onions at the store a couple of years ago, used the tops in a salad and planted the bottom two inches in the community garden. This is Texas, and they get two or three feet high. And they have survived the abuse by the people who have appointed themselves to over-water and turn the garden into a mudpit every day. I cut off some tops whenever I need them. They flower, but I haven't seen them divide. Onions are tough.
Love this video. Now from this video you can show us how you make your salad with spring onions and also how you freeze them or dry them and what other uses they have. There are some great uses for them here! Spicy green salsa. We know sliced spring onion makes a perfect garnish - go the extra mile by turning it into green salsa to serve with steak tacos. ... BBQ spring onion. ... Pickle it. ... Spring onion naan. ... Store it well. ... Let it grow. ... Freeze it. Those are some content ideas. Have a lovely day Geri 🙏🏼❤️
I took my store bought green onions, cut the tops and stuck the bulbs in my Aero Garden. They have been growing for months. You don't get any new bulbs, but there is a plethora of greens to use in cooking and salads.
I do the same with the root end of sweet and red onions from the store, it does the same thing, except the greens of the onions do not stay thin. I love nature and its drive to survive.
@Rappl1012 No, it wìll not grow a new onion. It will grow several green shoots that can be separated from each other that will flowee and give you seeds that cpuld grow into onions. I just like having the green for use, for free in a way.
Thank you. I have a tub of onions that I haven't replanted in about 4 years. I don't dig up the bulb ever, but I constantly go to it and cut the green tops off and use them. Yes, I get seed heads, but I haven't worried about them. My onion plants are huge. The green tips are iften an inch or wider. It's awesome! But... I so appreciate your video and learning new ways. I see your success in replanting. I do wish you'd update and show us how your new replanting is doing! Happy gardening!
Thanks for making this informative video! You taught me something that I'll do for the rest of my life! You'll keep me knee-deep and green onions until the day I drop dead of old age! Green onions will help to extend a guy's life by keeping his insides clean !!;
Watching how you use your spade to cut the he roots of the weeds and unwanted plants. No one ever taught me this and I have just learned a new skill. My husband keeps buying green onions and I keep forgetting to use them. If I planted some, I could have them more often as I’d plant them and remember I did that. Thank you so much
Thanks. I buy green onions from the grocery, cut off the greens and use them, then plant the bottom white + roots in pots and use the greens that come up in my favorite dishes. Greens are my favorites - I use them in everything but blueberry pie.
My bunching onions are surviving winters in New Jersey. I don't even cover them anymore. I let my seed heads develop so the pollinators have some early flowers. I have seed heads on my chives right now, and the bunching onions are getting close to working on seeds. I also have my chives and bunching onions a few pots with Alpine strawberries. The onions/chives I have in full sun are enormous. The plants in partial shade have spread out more and faster.
Interesting! Shade causes them to spread out more. That's probably why the ones in my barrels did better than the ones in the garden. So, do you allow your bunching onions to make seeds? Do you replant them?
@@debbiesorganicgarden I just let them grow where they are. I don't move anything. The chives spread faster, I just pull them out and use them. The onions spread faster in pots. Not sure if rabbits are eating the onion sprouts in the ground, they're not touching the chives.
@@debbiesorganicgarden Update: My garlic chive patch in partial shade doubled in size on it's own. The bunching onions are pretty much staying the same, mainly because I use them more often but I still allow some to go to seed so they're resowing themselves. It's getting colder now so I will not harvest anymore onions, I just gave them more mulch this week. The chives I can still harvest because there is so much of it.
Really great video! I’d watch this a while back when it came out, and changed the way I looked at my green onions and how I planted them in the garden so they would be more productive! Thank you for this great video! Also, as a sidenote, I try not to comment on other gardening RUclipsrs videos. I feel like it’s a bit of a distraction. But I felt it was appropriate now since we’ve already spoken, and I wanted to let you know how great the videos are!
I don't know if this works with regular green onions. These were given to me specifically as "bunching onions". Some viewers say they are walking onions. I'm not sure if they are but at least they would be very similar.
@ I agree with you I don’t think it would work with regular green onions at least not very easily. It would probably take much longer. I have both Egyptian walking onions and punching onions and I really wasn’t sure how to move the punching onions around and to utilize it. Now that I have a good understanding from your video on what you’ve done and how it worked, I can plan much better!
this is one of the only things I can actually grow in my yard without frickin bears tearing them up, it's nice to see how to grow them in profusion. thanks for the video!
Just cut the tops off of store bought green onions, and plant. Put them in a window sill. They will grow back over and over when you just cut what you need from the tops. I have done it. Cheers!
Fill the pot 3/4 with soil and plant your onion and cover the interior of the pot that doesn't have soil with tin foil, Aluminum foil. The foil will reflect the sun and you won't need a sunny window, just some light is enough.
I have been gathering seeds to start my organic veggie garden. I need some organic farming knowledge because I do not know how to plant well. Your channel is perfect.
Thanks for the tips on growing green onions. I have a batch of them, and I always cut them back because I use so many of them. I didn't realize that cutting them back is what was helping them spread so abundantly. I haven't seen any seed buds until this year. I cut them off, figuring they might spread to areas where I don't want them. I'll make sure I keep a close eye on my onions, now that I have more than I can actually use, to make sure they don't seed on me.
I cut up the green tops, spread on several cookie sheets (on parchment paper) Let them dry out in a 250• oven for several hours. They dried up nice and geen. Put them in a fliptop mason jar with some foodgrade silica packs...to keep them crispy and free from mold. I have my homegrown geen onions all year long.
I am learning all the ways that I can use green onions instead of sweet onions in my recipes. They are really good in soup and in fresh salads, including potato salad!
I’ve been growing bunching onions for years and I didn’t know why it won’t bunch up! Thankyou for your tips, I will cut off the flower heads this year. That is an invaluable tip to know. ❤
What is the difference between the TASTE of the green onion leaves from the plants that were forced to "bunch up" vs the plants that were allowed to seed or recently grew from a seed?
I watched this a couple of times. I went out and bought some green onions at the market, and planted them two per pot. I’ll let you know what happens! Thank you!!
I found this video so helpful. Grow bunching onions, chop them off, don't let them go to seed, and divide them when necessary. Now, I need to find bunching onions.
@@debbiesorganicgarden Probably something political, related to (and opposing) the current president of the US. If I am right, it probably stands for "[expletive verb in the imperative tense deleted] Joseph Biden". I am not going to say whether I agree - depending on your orientation, that's not to be discussed in RUclips comments.
My chives send green shoots up also……after I have cut them way down. They have mild scent/flavor. Chopped chives look so pretty as a garnish also. Ahna
Honestly, I've never replanted green onions from the store. Def worth the try if you can't find a source for bunching onions. These are slightly different from green onions from the store.
Wonderful video. Much appreciated. I do have a question: If I don't have a friend who can supply me with these, what is it that I would ask for at my garden store? I know they sell "onion sets" but will these make bunching onions? Thank you. I'm really looking forward to spring weather here in Indiana.
You may have to order some online. When I looked, seed companies want to sell you seeds. From my experience with the seed heads bursting and not making good green onions, IDK if theirs would do better. It may be an experiment to try. In the meantime, I found this source for the onion plants: multiplyingonion.com/shop/ols/all?sortOption=descend_by_created_at
@@debbiesorganicgarden Thanks for the information about where to buy these. Last year I bought a "bunching onion" seed packet with the tiniest seeds and tried that. It was a disaster. I am sure with your tips that I will have a much better harvest. Have a great day!
Try the seeds again...get fresh seeds (onion seeds don't have good germination if the seed is old). I got my Bunching Onions by starting seeds. I only wanted a few to try and they were large enough to cut by early Summer. After only 2 years, I have 4 large, beautiful clumps. I'm in Zone 6B and they're perennials here. It's early April now and the clumps are fully green and just gorgeous. I plan to divide 1 clump to make more. This year, I will dehydrate some.
Please share where you got your seeds. Mine are very fresh-they burst from the seed heads. Maybe yours are a variety that does well from seed. I think there are a lot of folks that would like to try.
@@debbiesorganicgarden I have the Minnesota Winter Bunching Onion and got my seeds from Seed Savers. I went to their website to check but it's no longer listed. Seed Savers does have a different one listed now -- the Heshiko Bunching Onion. Maybe one variety is easier to start from seed than another one?
You can buy a bunch of fresh scallions from grocery, cut 2-3 inches from bottom/roots, soak in cold water til roots sprout or plant them in garden ( if there’s roots existed already).
I believe you cause I have seen people do about same things. However growing up out in the country we had an onion hill. Just an area about 4 ft square at the most. We never bought an onion. My Mom canned them or maybe just locked them away from oxygen. And we had sorted sizes hanging in basement for bulb size. Now no body ever tuned to them matter of fact I wanted to tend to them and my Mom said leave them alone. We cut the newer green tops. We dug for the bigger bulbs to hang. Oh yeah we ate them. Do you think they were a different strain, of onions that is not what they sell now. Yes I am sure nobody ever tended to them. Mystery to me.
Thank you for sharing. I love stories from those who did it as a matter of life. There are so many varieties out there now that the original varieties seem to be a rare thing.
I never knew they were 'bunching' onions. We always called them spring onions or scallions. I grow these every year in a half whisky barrel. I'm going to plant the rest of what I bough this spring and see what happens over the winter. I will take your advice. thank you!
I live in an apartment in the center of a large Southern city, and I am growing carrots, basil, tomatoes, sage, chives, basil, and tons of mint & catnip - in buckets on my balcony! My carrots are huge, and everyone comments on my giant "ferns" (which are just the fluffy green carrot tops!) I love it! ❤❤❤
Thanks so much for so many great garden tips about the green onions. Really enjoyed the video. Thanks so much for for another awesome video for gardeners
They might be spreading BECAUSE you cut them back! Like when you want to get rid of a weed tree and then you find out just cutting it down made the root bigger.
Lady you’re so wrong. I’ve been growing these for 50+ years. These onions don’t split to multiply. They grow from seed but they take a couple of years to mature into full size plants. When bought from a grocery you can cut them about 40mm from the root ball and plant them and then harvest them repeatedly. Removing any flowers will help them to mature into larger plants the following year. They are a great plant to have for food but also as a companion plant for strawberries, roses, mint, blueberries, asparagus, tomatoes, pumpkins and many many more.
I don't recall saying they split. I show that they make new ones from the root. Yes, they do multiply and the seeds or new ones from the flower ball does not make a plant large enough to harvest for green onions. Yours must be different from mine. I agee that they make great companion plants. I also agree that the ones from the grocery store can be harvested many times but do they divide at the bottom?
I found a source for the seeds. Unfortunately, the company that I found that sells the plants are sold out. If you buy these seeds, please be sure to sow them shallow into good, lightweight seed starting mix. www.southernexposure.com/products/evergreen-hardy-white-bunching-onion/
Are these green onions the same as chives in UK?
No,Chives are different
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Thank you.
@@bernadettenightingale4495 No. These are larger and more tender.
@@debbiesorganicgarden - didn't you just show us that planting seeds doesn't work?
I am from Michigan and I have winter onions from my great grandmother to grandmother to me. I know they are at least 150 years old. They come up in the fall and die off, com3 back in the spring and if it was a hard winter, they re the mildest things you ever ate!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
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@@anitasantos7198 send me your address and I will mail you some when they go to seed.
wow, that is so cool!
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A neighbor gave me some green onions to plant in my garden. I have a squirrel problem because another neighbor keeps feeding them walnuts and they come into my yard and dig up my lawn and garden burying the nuts. I marveled that they can smell where they planted the walnuts so I thought, boy they must have a REAL good sense of smell. I decided to take some of the onions that my neighbor gave me and chop them up and strew them through the yard. OMG! It was like all the squirrels left town! My yard is eerily void of squirrels. When they get their nuts from my neighbor, instead of walking along my fence, they go up the telephone pole and walk past my yard on the wires! They want nothing to do with my yard. Now I will be planting them for a free repellent also.
WOW!!! Thanks for sharing. Come to think of it, they don't go in the barrels that have onions....looks like you are on to something!
I hope this works for possums.
@@mclanaford2957 I doubt it. They are pretty strong. I have a video about how we take care of possums. We've relocated quite a few.
I would've dug up the walnuts and used them
@@trkstatrksta8410That's mean.
I've been poking the root part of green onions in the ground for years because they give me the green tops for garnishes, but I had no idea they'd multiply like this. That said, I threw some garlic out into the yard and the garlic has formed a big clump. It's time for me to dig down and find out what's under the ground.
The ones in the video are specifically, "bunching onions". I don't know if green onions from the grocery store will do the same.
@@debbiesorganicgarden my understanding is that many green onions are fistulosum.
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 that word is a new one for me but, by golly, you are spot on!
@bootman26 I'm jealous. I am a hopeless gardener and have never been able to grow anything and here you are, just casually poking things into the ground and THEY GROW!
I wasn't even able to grow cannabis and that just grows wild next to every path the farm workers walk along, here in South Africa.
I had a nursery and propagated
The reason you cut back the greens or the flower on any plant is to give the roots more nutrition instead of sending it up through the stock
The reason to cut back plants you are propagating is to reduce water loss through the leaves via transpiration. There is no “nutrition for roots without leaves to photosynthesize.
So, if you let the "green" onion seed, it will use up it's bulb and NOT come back up the following year?
All these years I've been growing green onions and didn't know this. Thank you! Much appreciated.
I'm not sure it's true of ALL green onions but it sure would be worth the try. These are slightly different from the ones in the grocery store. If you succeed, I would sure love to hear back from you!
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@@debbiesorganicgardenI did and I succeed
I put store bought ones in a cup w stones. It works they continue growing. Got same gen my apt came with@@debbiesorganicgarden
I've had good luck planting green onions from the grocery store. Works great for cut and come again "greens."
Yes!! You can also plant the bottom slice of an onion too. I did a long video that shows how to do that and a short video about regrowing veggies. Maybe you can check it out and grow onions like you do your green onions. Love your input.
@debbiesorganicgarden 🙂👍
This works if you havean organic romaine lettuce and also celery too. Just cut off the end and stick it root side down and try will grow if you keep them watered.
@@gloryb5513 I'm trying that! 🙂
@@debbiesorganicgarden D you have a link to the video? "long video that shows how to do"
Oh the voice of cock crow makes me remember my childhood in countryside of Vietnam! They wake me up for school, walking a mile away. After school, I work on my family garden. Now I live in San Diego with little back yard as retiree after 45 years working in USA.Thank you for the tips and the noise of chicken. Thank you people of USA.
Thank you for your kind words.
Same here the sound of chicken took me bk home too. Really they were the wake up call.
Cock crow is slang for rooster? When was it, if anyone happened to notice? 😅🙏🫂💞
@@mlchlkorooster is the cock or cockerel and he crows at dawn. We always called it cock crow in Scotland 🏴, seems it’s travelled a fair bit x
@@mlchlko 😂😂😂
My parents moved a lot but my dad always brought his multiplying onions with him.
I bought this house 10 years ago and I am still mowing onions in the backyard.. lol
They had a garden and a half of onions and the backyard trees and privacy fence covered with grapes 🍇,,i left the grapes, they're everywhere, i mow the onions.. lol it smells interesting in my backyard after I mow the grass.. lol 😊
That's too funny!
It's true 😢😅😢@@debbiesorganicgarden
Green onions have gotten so expensive at the store I have stopped buying them. I will get some bunching onions most definitely. I love to use them in fried rice by the fistfuls and in my scrambled eggs.
Chives in scrambled eggs are better😋
I dry my green tops and process them through the coffee grinder. This makes onion powder, useful in everything. I do the same with celery tops. No waste at all and gives immune health when sprinkled in savoury dishes. You must remember that 1 tspn of dried or dehydrated powder is worth 4 bunching onion stems or 2 celery stems, very potent stuff.
I have celery that is "regrown" from the bottom of used celery. I wasn't sure what to do with the resulting plants. They tend to be tough because of the heat. This sounds like a great way to be sure to use the stems.
Thank you for a great suggestion.
8:55 @@debbiesorganicgarden
Great idea
I do that too with celery and you are first I’ve heard besides me! I find that the dehydrated and ground up celery leaves and stems act like a natural “MSG” in that they enhance the flavor of whatever I’m cooking without giving a strong celery flavor. Plus I love all the added nutrition I’m adding to dishes. And you can’t buy ground celery powder, so only way to make it is grow it. Now I’m gonna add “onion powder” from green tops as well. Thank you!
I sow a packed of bunching onion seeds about 4 years ago. This year i gave a few pots as birthday gift to my cousin.
You are a good friend! Where did you get your seeds? The seeds that come from my bunching onions don't make good bunching onions. Just the scrawny ones you see near the end of the video.
@@debbiesorganicgarden hi
I live in Malaysia, during lockup i managed to get new stock of bunching onion seeds from one of Malaysia well known seed company. Nowadays, with people working, they no longer have new seeds, just selling old onion and chives seed stocks. My chives and bunching onion never bolted, maybe because i always harvest the leaves, cleaned and freeze them. We don't have winter here and my chives and spring onion self divided themselves 3 times a year so my supply so far is constant.
@@80sforever3 very cool. Thanks for sharing.
How do you overwinter them? Or are you in the South? Ohio is warming, as is the rest of the planet. But it is not yet warm enough to harvest onions through the winter months.
@@thisbushnell2012 Malaysia has a tropical rainforest climate with a monsoon spike in rainfall. "Winter" is just the time it's slightly cooler. Still hot and wet
I had no idea it was “one or the other”. Thanks for this!
I'm glad you were helped!
Hi, don’t forget to water the roots before you seperrate them it really helps .
I will try that. Thanks for the tip!
WOW! This was great Thank you. I'm 88 but I just got my seeds from my library and now I am never going to have to pay .99 cents again for 6 little onions. Gut back and divide, just like Iris. God bless you, my dear.
Yay! a fellow senior citizen still staying active! Thank you for you kind words. I hope the seeds are the right kind. I did not start mine from seeds so I can't advise you except to not bury them too deep. Onion seeds can take a long time to germinate too.
God bless you, especially those little angels who sung worship song
My chives are growing blooms. You helped me see that I need to cut them down!
I was going to ask, all of this applies to chives too?
@@tessjuel I cut my chives back, and they already grew back!!
Only need to cut them down if you don't want seeds
Awesome. I grew both welsh bunching onions and red bunching onions from seed a few years ago. Im almost at the stage of needing to divide do this was very helpful thank you.
That's amazing that you were successful in growing them from seed! Yes, divide and keep them going!
I was just gifted about seven of these walking onions. I had no idea I needed to cut them back. Thanks for the tip !
Yay! Great gift and I'm glad you now know how to keep them multiplying.
I bought some green onions at the store a couple of years ago, used the tops in a salad and planted the bottom two inches in the community garden. This is Texas, and they get two or three feet high. And they have survived the abuse by the people who have appointed themselves to over-water and turn the garden into a mudpit every day. I cut off some tops whenever I need them. They flower, but I haven't seen them divide. Onions are tough.
Thanks for sharing! Sounds like they are a very hardy plant!
I just went thro' my frig. & planted green onions & celery that had lots of roots starting.
Thank you from Australia.
Yes, you can do that with regular onions too! See my short video about that!
You missed the perfect chance to say, "Give it a green thumbs up!" 😁 Great video. Thanks.
haha, I certainly could have!
Love this video. Now from this video you can show us how you make your salad with spring onions and also how you freeze them or dry them and what other uses they have. There are some great uses for them here!
Spicy green salsa. We know sliced spring onion makes a perfect garnish - go the extra mile by turning it into green salsa to serve with steak tacos. ...
BBQ spring onion. ...
Pickle it. ...
Spring onion naan. ...
Store it well. ...
Let it grow. ...
Freeze it.
Those are some content ideas. Have a lovely day Geri 🙏🏼❤️
What a huge garden she have. She dun need farmer market, its in her backyard. 🥰
I took my store bought green onions, cut the tops and stuck the bulbs in my Aero Garden. They have been growing for months. You don't get any new bulbs, but there is a plethora of greens to use in cooking and salads.
Thanks for sharing.
I do the same with the root end of sweet and red onions from the store, it does the same thing, except the greens of the onions do not stay thin.
I love nature and its drive to survive.
@@nanaleigh328Will the root end grow new onions?
@Rappl1012 No, it wìll not grow a new onion. It will grow several green shoots that can be separated from each other that will flowee and give you seeds that cpuld grow into onions. I just like having the green for use, for free in a way.
Green onions same as spring onions hi from the UK great update thanks for your time 👍👍👍👍
Thank you. I have a tub of onions that I haven't replanted in about 4 years. I don't dig up the bulb ever, but I constantly go to it and cut the green tops off and use them. Yes, I get seed heads, but I haven't worried about them. My onion plants are huge. The green tips are iften an inch or wider. It's awesome! But... I so appreciate your video and learning new ways. I see your success in replanting. I do wish you'd update and show us how your new replanting is doing! Happy gardening!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for making this informative video! You taught me something that I'll do for the rest of my life! You'll keep me knee-deep and green onions until the day I drop dead of old age! Green onions will help to extend a guy's life by keeping his insides clean !!;
Watching how you use your spade to cut the he roots of the weeds and unwanted plants.
No one ever taught me this and I have just learned a new skill. My husband keeps buying green onions and I keep forgetting to use them. If I planted some, I could have them more often as I’d plant them and remember I did that.
Thank you so much
It comes natural after so many years of gardening. I never even thought about it when I made the video so thank you so much for the kind words.
Lol I never remember what I planted! Sometimes it doesn't come up til the next year
Thanks. I buy green onions from the grocery, cut off the greens and use them, then plant the bottom white + roots in pots and use the greens that come up in my favorite dishes. Greens are my favorites - I use them in everything but blueberry pie.
Well, I wouldn't put them in blueberry pie either🙃 Thanks for the chuckle and the ideas.
My bunching onions are surviving winters in New Jersey. I don't even cover them anymore. I let my seed heads develop so the pollinators have some early flowers. I have seed heads on my chives right now, and the bunching onions are getting close to working on seeds. I also have my chives and bunching onions a few pots with Alpine strawberries.
The onions/chives I have in full sun are enormous. The plants in partial shade have spread out more and faster.
Interesting! Shade causes them to spread out more. That's probably why the ones in my barrels did better than the ones in the garden. So, do you allow your bunching onions to make seeds? Do you replant them?
@@debbiesorganicgarden I just let them grow where they are. I don't move anything. The chives spread faster, I just pull them out and use them. The onions spread faster in pots. Not sure if rabbits are eating the onion sprouts in the ground, they're not touching the chives.
@@debbiesorganicgarden Update: My garlic chive patch in partial shade doubled in size on it's own. The bunching onions are pretty much staying the same, mainly because I use them more often but I still allow some to go to seed so they're resowing themselves. It's getting colder now so I will not harvest anymore onions, I just gave them more mulch this week. The chives I can still harvest because there is so much of it.
@@Omegawerewolfx Great info. Thanks for sharing. I wonder if the seeds do better in cool climates. Mine never make a good size.
Really great video!
I’d watch this a while back when it came out, and changed the way I looked at my green onions and how I planted them in the garden so they would be more productive!
Thank you for this great video!
Also, as a sidenote, I try not to comment on other gardening RUclipsrs videos. I feel like it’s a bit of a distraction. But I felt it was appropriate now since we’ve already spoken, and I wanted to let you know how great the videos are!
I don't know if this works with regular green onions. These were given to me specifically as "bunching onions". Some viewers say they are walking onions. I'm not sure if they are but at least they would be very similar.
@ I agree with you I don’t think it would work with regular green onions at least not very easily. It would probably take much longer. I have both Egyptian walking onions and punching onions and I really wasn’t sure how to move the punching onions around and to utilize it. Now that I have a good understanding from your video on what you’ve done and how it worked, I can plan much better!
In South Africa we call them Spring onions Have become very expensive
Same in New Zealand.WE call them the "spring onions".
Up North they are called scallions.
@@greenqueen2673
Not by everybody. Also called green onions.
I do this too! In LOVE with being able to just go to the garden for green onions. 💚💚💚
this is one of the only things I can actually grow in my yard without frickin bears tearing them up, it's nice to see how to grow them in profusion. thanks for the video!
Wow! I guess it would be hard to keep bears out of a garden!
Grow more spring onions, around the perimetre, or/and some mastard))They might not like the smell...
I need to try these in my greenhouse!
i'm disabled and can't plant outside, is sure wish i could grow that inside here in DFW TX area...i just love scallions!!!
Do you have a sunny window? I wish you could grow them too. Thanks for watching. Maybe you can enjoy gardening with me as I keep posting videos.
If you’re in Texas, you must have a sunny window that you could grow in
Just cut the tops off of store bought green onions, and plant. Put them in a window sill. They will grow back over and over when you just cut what you need from the tops. I have done it. Cheers!
Fill the pot 3/4 with soil and plant your onion and cover the interior of the pot that doesn't have soil with tin foil, Aluminum foil. The foil will reflect the sun and you won't need a sunny window, just some light is enough.
I have been gathering seeds to start my organic veggie garden. I need some organic farming knowledge because I do not know how to plant well. Your channel is perfect.
New subscriber. Looking forward to your channel and journey. God bless you and many 🙏🏻 prayers. Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister
Thank you and thanks for watching. I hope it was helpful.
Yes! Great is thy faithfulness. 🙏
Thanks for the tips on growing green onions. I have a batch of them, and I always cut them back because I use so many of them. I didn't realize that cutting them back is what was helping them spread so abundantly. I haven't seen any seed buds until this year. I cut them off, figuring they might spread to areas where I don't want them. I'll make sure I keep a close eye on my onions, now that I have more than I can actually use, to make sure they don't seed on me.
Thanks for sharing!
This is a great video, to the point no excess talking, not too long to watch, short and sweet.
I just bought seedlings and juat transplanted here in Ohio. My first try and cant wait. Great information, thanks for sharing.
I hope they do well for you.
I cut up the green tops, spread on several cookie sheets (on parchment paper)
Let them dry out in a 250• oven for several hours. They dried up nice and geen. Put them in a fliptop mason jar with some foodgrade silica packs...to keep them crispy and free from mold.
I have my homegrown geen onions all year long.
I overwintered onions for the first time and wondered how to maintain them. This was really helpful ~ thank you!💚
thank you for the info, very nice of you to share for the betterment of humanity! nice to know some people still care! God bless you!
I love your garden
I use a lot of onion for my cooking
I am learning all the ways that I can use green onions instead of sweet onions in my recipes. They are really good in soup and in fresh salads, including potato salad!
I’ve been growing bunching onions for years and I didn’t know why it won’t bunch up! Thankyou for your tips, I will cut off the flower heads this year. That is an invaluable tip to know. ❤
Glad it helped!
What is the difference between the TASTE of the green onion leaves from the plants that were forced to "bunch up" vs the plants that were allowed to seed or recently grew from a seed?
If you only Cut the flower, will the bulb not grow bigger?
@@hvasaa in my experience, they don't. They react by making more at the bottom as shown by the tiny new ones at the beginning of the video.
I watched this a couple of times. I went out and bought some green onions at the market, and planted them two per pot. I’ll let you know what happens! Thank you!!
Yes, please let me know!
Best day ever 💓
This is very helpful. Thank you.
I'm glad it was helpful.
Very relaxing video! Love hearing the background animals.. 💖
Love green onions
I found this video so helpful. Grow bunching onions, chop them off, don't let them go to seed, and divide them when necessary. Now, I need to find bunching onions.
Thanks for your input. I appreciate it. Try the source for the seeds in the first comment where I provide a link.
Thank U much🎉from Atlanta Ga ❤
Yay, I love Atlanta!!
My onions have been growing for years. Great information here. Thank you, FJB... FJB... FJB... !
Thanks for sharing! What is fjb?
@@debbiesorganicgarden Probably something political, related to (and opposing) the current president of the US. If I am right, it probably stands for "[expletive verb in the imperative tense deleted] Joseph Biden". I am not going to say whether I agree - depending on your orientation, that's not to be discussed in RUclips comments.
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 thank you for explaining.
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Your wrong, this is exactly what we need to discuss or our Country will no longer be free
Egyptian walking onions, they don't make seeds, but instead little bulblettes on top you can cut/pinch off and plant wherever. Much easier to control.
I have seen that too. My onions do both, oddly. I've never tried to plant them. I will try that when I see it again. Thanks!
I have those too. Planted several years ago & they are walking around my garden. ❤them
Yes, that's what I grow
@@debbiesorganicgarden🦾✝️
I have both bunching and egyptian. I find the egyptian onions are not as tender as the bunching. Good for soup stock though.
My chives send green shoots up also……after I have cut them way down. They have mild scent/flavor. Chopped chives look so pretty as a garnish also. Ahna
Sounds wonderful! I don't use chives so I'm glad you relate with the onions too:)
Thank you and be blessed
and you as well:)
That was the best video I’ve ever seen of all my videos, watching dividing a bunch of earnings
thank you!
I’ve been planting the roots from the green onions I buy at the grocery store.
Do you have results that you would like to share? Thanks!
I buried the bottoms of olde yellow onions and have huuuuge green stalks and seed pods. I harvest the greens and have yet to look at the new bulbs
watching you from Hong Kong. The white part has best aroma. Best in soup or porridge. Of course best in salad.❤❤
I never understood this, but you certainly showed me how this works.
Glad it was helpful.
Awww, I had totally forgotten about bunching onions. With these tips maybe I’ll try them again! Thank you!! Blessings, Carol🙏
GREAT video. thank you
Thank you sooo much! I hope you stick around. Maybe there's more for you too:)
thank you...I will follow your advice. I love having green onions available.
Very informative. Thanks.
Green onions are excellent in quiche. Thanks so much for this video!
I agree. I hope you can grow lots and lots!
I’ve grown them in mostly bright areas out of the sun. Thanks for your info.
I think you are on to something. I'm thinking the same way. Thanks for sharing.
Nice video, thank you. I didn't know that the grocer's is this very plant. I'll definitely buy some for my garden today.
Honestly, I've never replanted green onions from the store. Def worth the try if you can't find a source for bunching onions. These are slightly different from green onions from the store.
I think green onions are what we call shallots here in Australia 🤔 so many great tips I this video and comments! Thanks
Wonderful video. Much appreciated. I do have a question: If I don't have a friend who can supply me with these, what is it that I would ask for at my garden store? I know they sell "onion sets" but will these make bunching onions? Thank you. I'm really looking forward to spring weather here in Indiana.
You may have to order some online. When I looked, seed companies want to sell you seeds. From my experience with the seed heads bursting and not making good green onions, IDK if theirs would do better. It may be an experiment to try. In the meantime, I found this source for the onion plants: multiplyingonion.com/shop/ols/all?sortOption=descend_by_created_at
@@debbiesorganicgarden Thanks for the information about where to buy these. Last year I bought a "bunching onion" seed packet with the tiniest seeds and tried that. It was a disaster. I am sure with your tips that I will have a much better harvest. Have a great day!
Try the seeds again...get fresh seeds (onion seeds don't have good germination if the seed is old).
I got my Bunching Onions by starting seeds. I only wanted a few to try and they were large enough to cut by early Summer.
After only 2 years, I have 4 large, beautiful clumps. I'm in Zone 6B and they're perennials here. It's early April now and the clumps are fully green and just gorgeous. I plan to divide 1 clump to make more. This year, I will dehydrate some.
Please share where you got your seeds. Mine are very fresh-they burst from the seed heads. Maybe yours are a variety that does well from seed. I think there are a lot of folks that would like to try.
@@debbiesorganicgarden
I have the Minnesota Winter Bunching Onion and got my seeds from Seed Savers.
I went to their website to check but it's no longer listed.
Seed Savers does have a different one listed now -- the Heshiko Bunching Onion. Maybe one variety is easier to start from seed than another one?
Oh wow! I need to use this method more often. I love green onions.
I can smell it from here in my kitchen garden
Everything i needed to know in one video. Thanks
Thank you great GREAT video!
Thank you for this great advice. Thank you for taking time out of your day and making video. I learned something from you.
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing the how to !
You can buy a bunch of fresh scallions from grocery, cut 2-3 inches from bottom/roots, soak in cold water til roots sprout or plant them in garden ( if there’s roots existed already).
Yes, they will regrow. I'm not sure if they will make more though. Do you know?
We love this technique and they do seed these beautiful pods
Thanks for sharing. Can you please provide more detail? Do you mean there is a source for the seeds?
I believe you cause I have seen people do about same things. However growing up out in the country we had an onion hill. Just an area about 4 ft square at the most. We never bought an onion. My Mom canned them or maybe just locked them away from oxygen. And we had sorted sizes hanging in basement for bulb size. Now no body ever tuned to them matter of fact I wanted to tend to them and my Mom said leave them alone. We cut the newer green tops. We dug for the bigger bulbs to hang. Oh yeah we ate them. Do you think they were a different strain, of onions that is not what they sell now. Yes I am sure nobody ever tended to them. Mystery to me.
Thank you for sharing. I love stories from those who did it as a matter of life. There are so many varieties out there now that the original varieties seem to be a rare thing.
I never knew they were 'bunching' onions. We always called them spring onions or scallions. I grow these every year in a half whisky barrel. I'm going to plant the rest of what I bough this spring and see what happens over the winter. I will take your advice. thank you!
Honestly, I'm not sure they are the same thing. Keep me posted please:)
Lovely
Debbie, so glad I discovered you. Miss my garden so much as we are
in an apartment now. Thank you again, Lawrie in NW Philadelphia.
Welcome! Pennsylvania is beautiful!
I live in an apartment in the center of a large Southern city, and I am growing carrots, basil, tomatoes, sage, chives, basil, and tons of mint & catnip - in buckets on my balcony! My carrots are huge, and everyone comments on my giant "ferns" (which are just the fluffy green carrot tops!) I love it! ❤❤❤
All I do is pinch off enough for what I’m using. The green part only. I’ve had the same container for many years.
Very cool. That's good to know. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for so many great garden tips about the green onions. Really enjoyed the video. Thanks so much for for another awesome video for gardeners
I appreciate your kind words. I'm glad you liked it.
OMG I just today found onion seeds growing in my new flower beds.
Do you mean that you discovered new onion plants?
I initially clicked on this video because I was curious about how to grow a green onion. But what struck me the most is how pretty your hair is lol!
Haha, well that was a good hair day! Thank you! I hated it when I was a child during a time when the style was long and straight.
They might be spreading BECAUSE you cut them back! Like when you want to get rid of a weed tree and then you find out just cutting it down made the root bigger.
good logic!
Thank you for teaching us about growing green onion.
You're welcome!
I recommend a better trowel.
I agree! I lost my favorite one. Haven't found another one like it yet.
OMG ,thanks...Good luck everyone
Green onions get so expensive, some stores sell them a dollar for a bunch
In Tofino,BC,Canada last week green onions were 2.49 a bunch!
Pitt Meadows $2.89
If people stop buying them they will have to lower the price.
This video is very helpful and you explained the dos and don'ts so well
Thank you! I hope you are inspired to grow more:)
Lady you’re so wrong. I’ve been growing these for 50+ years. These onions don’t split to multiply. They grow from seed but they take a couple of years to mature into full size plants. When bought from a grocery you can cut them about 40mm from the root ball and plant them and then harvest them repeatedly. Removing any flowers will help them to mature into larger plants the following year. They are a great plant to have for food but also as a companion plant for strawberries, roses, mint, blueberries, asparagus, tomatoes, pumpkins and many many more.
I don't recall saying they split. I show that they make new ones from the root. Yes, they do multiply and the seeds or new ones from the flower ball does not make a plant large enough to harvest for green onions. Yours must be different from mine. I agee that they make great companion plants. I also agree that the ones from the grocery store can be harvested many times but do they divide at the bottom?
@@debbiesorganicgarden No, they don’t divide or split. Could well be a different variant.
True
Same here !
@@debbiesorganicgarden
@@glenbaker4024, I like to know what variant hers is 😝
I view a lot of videos, and this is one of the best. This video is packed with information.
thank you!
They just don't taste the same as first harvest.. might depend on your climate.
Mine taste the same. Perhaps it is the soil and growing method (organic).
Thanks I just started using bunching onions and watched your video as a refresher...
Glad it was helpful.