Topic: Everlasting Onions ( not Welsh onions)

[Hector]

Hi folks
Those of you who grow these...what spacing do you use and have you tried in containers?
Thanks

[penedesenca]

I plant mine 20-30cm apart splitting/moving every three years. I grew them once in a wall planter and they were fine on the whole but did suffer in winter as it was in a damp shady planter.

[Hector]

Pendesenca, thanks for that.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I plant mine a foot apart and let the clumps develop. They multiply like mad!

[Hector]

Thanks Robert :)

We eat a lot of onions, so that is welcome news!

[Jeannine]

Robert could you please tell mw what the exact name is of the variety you have and can they be started by seed, also how big does the bulb get Thank yiu Jeannine

[penedesenca]

Robert could you please tell mw what the exact name is of the variety you have and can they be started by seed, also how big does the bulb get Thank yiu Jeannine

Sorry I am not Robert but in answer to your other question Allium cepa puratile, they don't flower to set any seed and it doesn't form much of a bulb it is used like spring onions where you pull off what you want and leave the rest to grow and multiply. Hope this helps

http://www.pennardplants.com/search.php?pg=1&stext=everlasting&sprice=&stype=&scat=

[johhnyco15]

i was given a "bunch" two years ago now i have a full row thats 7" wide and 9ft long indeed they are just like spring onions we use them at christmas chopped in homemade coleslaw  they really are trouble free no white rot onion fly just small lovely onions hope this helps

[Hector]

Thanks for this. I'm so pleased I've got these as the amount of onions and Chives we go through is scary :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

What I have is the non-flowering (normally) everlasting onion. It's very much like Welsh Onion, but smaller, and doesn't flower. It does flower occasionally, and someone sent me a seedhead last year which I believe to be from the same plant. I got one plant form the seeds I planted then, put the rest in this year, and have half a dozen seedlings from that. I should know for sure whether it's the same plant by the end of this season.

[galina]

Robert could you please tell mw what the exact name is of the variety you have and can they be started by seed, also how big does the bulb get Thank yiu Jeannine

I absolutely expected Richter's Herbs to stock these in Canada, but it seems not, or at least not this year.  You start from plants which multiply, not from seeds. 

[brownthumb2]

 I have two types of onions which seems to be ever lasting   . One which  sets seeds(  welsh ) and the other I think is a walking onion which sets little bulblets then bend over and those root  is the latter one a tree onion or is that a different onion again  ?

[galina]

Brownthumb2  tree onion is just another name for Walking Onion or Catawissa onion. 

I have two types of onions which seems to be ever lasting   . One which  sets seeds(  welsh ) and the other I think is a walking onion which sets little bulblets then bend over and those root  is the latter one a tree onion or is that a different onion again  ?

[brownthumb2]

 Oh thanks for that ,Thought it might have been the same  onion

[penedesenca]

Other names for tree onions include egyptian onions and topsetting onions