From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 7/23/23 03:14, songbird wrote:   
   > T wrote:   
   >> Are they one or two year to harvest?   
   >   
   >    seeds or bulbs?   
   >   
   >    if you want just regular bulbed eating onions those would   
   > be sprouted early in the season and then grown to bulb size   
   > and then harvested.  if you want to use tiny bulbs as starts   
   > for the following year that can happen but it is not as   
   > predictable as the size of the tiny bulbs plus the climate   
   > of your growing season may end up having all your planted   
   > starts end up flowering (which is what happened to me this   
   > season due to the dry and hot weather).  this was even after   
   > i selected the tiny bulbs and not those that were larger.  i   
   > now have a few hundred seed heads i'll have to harvest.  eeks!   
   >   
   >    if you want green onions for this fall and early winter   
   > you can plant those seeds anytime now.  keep them as evenly   
   > moist as possible until they sprout.   
   >   
   >    you can eat the green onions grown from seeds anytime   
   > after they've sprouted.  if you want some of those to go to   
   > flower and give you more seeds next year leave them alone   
   > to come up next spring.   
   >   
   >   
   >    songbird   
      
      
   I planted seeds in early May.  They are about four   
   to five inches tall now.  Me thinks this is possibly   
   a two year thing.   
      
   -T   
      
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