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bupster
Hectare
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Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 14:38:39 »
Got bunching onions through from HDRA's heritage seed catalogue today. What in god's name do I do with them? :o
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amanda21
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40's the new 30 - right?
Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 15:01:09 »
Errrrrr.........bunch them?? ;)
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bupster
Hectare
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Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 15:08:30 »
Har har har. :D
They're Welsh onions, to clarify (I have a vague recollection of a vaguely Welsh name). They've sent me three little baby sets, and apparently they don't do all that many of them, so these are very special and I want to get them right. There's very little information on the web.
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amanda21
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January 20, 2006, 15:12:59 »
:D
Are we looking at normal round kind of onions or spring onion type onions - I have to admit never heard of them before.....but that's not surprising really - I'd never had Butternut Squash until last year! Such a sheltered life....... ;D
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Larkspur
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Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 15:16:50 »
Hi Bupster you plant them like onion sets, the recommended distance is 9" apart.
You pull the leaves off and use them like spring onions when they are mature. I have never grown them but I remember my father doing so.
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Larkspur
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Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 15:19:00 »
Oh, and despite being called Welsh onions they are really Japanese bunching onion ???s??????????? ??? ???
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amanda21
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Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 15:23:48 »
??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Welsh? Japanese? soooo confused now....... ;)
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Larkspur
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Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 15:25:13 »
Thats two of us then ;)
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growmore
Hectare
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Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 16:00:40 »
Welsh onions look like big chives.They don't bulb just multiply from bottom growing in to biggish clumps.They are perennial. .. You can use them 12 months of the year..They are usually propagated by splitting a clump and setting the splits out ..I have had them for years and have never known em go to seed.. Do you want a pic of em?? ..cheers ..Jim
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supersprout
Hectare
Posts: 4,660
mulch mad!
Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 16:56:35 »
Yes
please
, post a pic - it really helps to see what one be aspiring to! ::)
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amanda21
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40's the new 30 - right?
Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 19:12:40 »
What kind of strength in flavour are they please? Do you eat them like spring onions ie raw in salads etc or to season or like leeks? Cheers - I just love the varied advice I get on here! :)
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grawrc
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Hectare
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Edinburgh
Re: Bunching onions
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January 20, 2006, 19:19:29 »
I used to grow them when the kids were little (in their twenties now). I liked the fact that you could pull the green stalks and then lift the root and use them like shallots, saving back one ot two to repeat the process. I think they are perannial but I usually left some and lifted some each year. It's so long ago I can't remember taste but think they were comparable to onions/shallots.
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growmore
Hectare
Posts: 1,023
Practice Beats Theory. Don Valley South Yorks
Re: Bunching onions
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January 22, 2006, 15:15:05 »
Here's some pics i took on Saturday of welsh onions for Super Sprout...
The first pic is a clump of them ..Second is some broke off from bottom and peeled..
Cheers. Jim
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supersprout
Hectare
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mulch mad!
Re: Bunching onions
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January 22, 2006, 18:15:31 »
Thank you growmore, grr I can't seem to see the pics (only the spaces where they should be) ???
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growmore
Hectare
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Practice Beats Theory. Don Valley South Yorks
Re: Bunching onions
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January 22, 2006, 18:46:55 »
Think there's a prob at the mo with pics. I seem to have lost lots of folks avatars.will try them again later if they dont show.Cheers ..Jim
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lorna
Hectare
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March. Cambridgeshire
Re: Bunching onions
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January 22, 2006, 18:56:08 »
I can see pics fine.
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growmore
Hectare
Posts: 1,023
Practice Beats Theory. Don Valley South Yorks
Re: Bunching onions
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January 22, 2006, 19:10:00 »
Me too ..think it's fixed :) Jim
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supersprout
Hectare
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mulch mad!
Re: Bunching onions
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Reply #17 on:
January 22, 2006, 19:11:10 »
Yep, can see fine growmore! Thank you, now I know what they should look like ::) ;D
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