From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
   ...   
   > On my yellow onions, I have been pulling out the runs   
   > and using them like green onions.  It is occurring to   
   > me if I can't get the overwinter bulb onions right,   
   > I might as well just grown green onions!   
   >   
   > I saute my onions in butter, then serve them with   
   > some kind of meat or in a salad.  I also sprinkle   
   > them over chicken when I am cooking chicken.   
   > They are too string to server raw.  The give   
   > you an ice cream headache, without the ice cream!   
   >   
   > Looked up walking onions after you mentioned them.   
   > The bulbs are above ground?  That I have to see!!!   
   > Which ones are you growing?   
      
     these aren't walking onions, they are bulb onions   
   which were not planted deeply enough, i think that is   
   mostly why they didn't get very big this year.  we   
   sure had plenty of sunshine and i watered them   
   regularly.  also the garden soil they were planted   
   in was pretty good.  they're still rather green and   
   perhaps those that haven't fallen over yet will   
   continue growing and getting bigger.  they are called   
   Kelsae Giant Sweet onions.  i've had some pretty big   
   before (over 8 inches across), but this year most of   
   them are going to be only 5 or so inches.  we buy   
   them as already started plants so they get put in   
   when we plant the rest of the starts from the green-   
   house towards the end of May.  they would likely do   
   better if they were put in a few weeks or maybe even   
   a month earlier.   
      
     our late summer weather is often not very dry out   
   there so getting them from the gardens and cured   
   well enough for longer term storage is a challenge.   
   it often happens that we just have to eat them up.   
   we make some big pots of onion soup or onion mushroom   
   soup and then freeze portions of that to eat through   
   the winter or they can get used in other things.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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