From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
   ...   
   > I cut off the seed balls from my green onions (scallions)   
   > as a Songbird directed me.  That left two foot long   
   > open at the top 1/2" tubes.  The plants just stayed   
   > that way for two weeks.  Then a couple of thunderstorms   
   > filled the tubes with water and nasty looking   
   > things took up residence in the tubes.  So I cut the   
   > tubes off down by the base where they were solid.   
   >   
   > Then something wonderful happened.  This week I go out   
   > and the plants had all sprung up two foot leaves.   
   > A lot of them.  And the winds had blown a few over.   
   > Since they were not doing the plant any good that   
   > way, I harvested them.  Had some for breakfast.   
   >   
   > This is marvelous.  I thought the plant would just   
   > slowly die, having flowered.  And being that   
   > I have trouble getting regular onions to bulb (too   
   > short a growing season) and these things grow all   
   > winter long, they may be the perfect substitute   
   > for regular onions until I get regular onions   
   > figured out.   
   >   
   > Life is good.  Thriving, not just surviving.   
      
     :)   
      
     knocking the stalks over after cutting the flower   
   heads off will prevent that.   
      
     when the onions stalks start falling over on their   
   own that is usually a sign that bulbing onions are   
   mostly ready.  it is happening here now and the onions   
   aren't all that big compared to other years but i'll   
   just tell Mom to use those first as they happen.   
      
     we eat a lot of onions.   
      
     i'm learning too as we go along.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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