From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
      
   > And I have gotten  even sillier.   
   >   
   > I harvested a big white onion and cut the   
   > bottom six inches off.   Then I clicked it   
   > up the middle.  I planted the two halves.   
   >   
   > This will be "interesting".   
      
     you could cut most of the bulb off and   
   use the base plate (the part which attaches   
   to the roots) for starting new plants by cutting   
   it into multiple parts (like quarters or eighths   
   depending upon how big it is) and replant those   
   down about an inch.  keep moist.  some should   
   regrow.   
      
     though likely what will happen is that next   
   year if you leave the results outside to   
   overwinter is that you will get onions that   
   flower and not the more simple bulbs that come   
   from first year seeds or starts.   
      
     all in my experience...   
      
     in my onion patch this year almost every   
   onion that overwintered has been flowering   
   this year.  i think it is because it has been   
   so hot and so dry.  i do plant onion starts   
   and also some onions from seeds, but i did   
   not plant any fresh seeds this spring so i   
   have mostly flowers in what i was hoping to   
   be more of a mixed garden.   
      
     the other day i already cut off the seed   
   heads from the earliest flowering green onions   
   that i grow.  tons of seeds.  i won't even   
   bother to sift them to remove chaff as i'll   
   just shake the heads and use the seeds that   
   easily fall off and discard the rest.   
      
     it will be several weeks yet before i get   
   the later bulbing onion seed heads harvested.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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