From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   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   
      
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