From: jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 18:37:44 -0800, T    
   wrote:   
      
   > Best grown from sets or seeds?   
      
   Since they don't bloom, there are no seeds.  You can plant   
   bulbils or divide existing clumps.   
      
   They called them "winter onions" when I was growing up,   
   because you get scallions as soon as you can dig them up.  I   
   ate some on New Year's Day last year.  Then no more until   
   the last day of February.   
      
   Everybody had a neglected patch when I was growing up, but I   
   couldn't get them to thrive without planting them in a row   
   and weeding them. Since I didn't have time to harvest and   
   eat all the bulbils this year, I have scallions all over the   
   garden.  I hate to just plow them under with the cultivator.   
   The large-enough-to-mess-with onions in the row are still   
   producing, but I have to pull a lot of weeds to dig one up,   
   and I'm still short on time.  (I should be in bed instead of   
   typing this.)   
      
   You get scallions until they start making bulbils.  The   
   bulbils can be cooked without peeling for a while; when   
      
   Thursday, November six 2025 -- going to bed.   
   Saturday, November eight 2025 -- got a quarter hour to play   
   before bedtime.   
      
   When the bulbils get tough, you can cut each one in half and   
   pop it out of its shell -- helps if you don't quite cut   
   through the shell, so each half can be used as a handle for   
   the other -- that's rather tedious if you want more than a   
   garnish, but along about then they start making bulbs at the   
   base.  You have to throw away an entire plant to get a bulb,   
   and it's sometimes very small, but it's not tedious to clean   
   enough to make a mess of stew.   
      
   The bulbs sprout as soon as they are fully formed, but   
   remain good and crisp for weeks after they sprout.  When   
   they do spoil, you've got scallions again.   
      
   3 November 2025   
      
   Looks as though this was finished when my fifteen minutes   
   were up.   
      
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