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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Duke Ellington on July 07, 2022, 07:23:33
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Has anyone grown Welsh onions? I understand they are a perennial onion. Are they eaten like spring onions? Can you eat the bulbs and the leaves? Are they left in the ground or do you lift them and replant?
Duke 🙂🙂
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They are really daffodils :toothy10:
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Yes, they are perennial and multiply at the base to form clumps, which can be divided or left depending on how/where you'd like them to grow. The more that populate the clump, the smaller each individual onion will be. They do not bulb up and are eaten like spring onions, leaves and all. You can earth up to make the white shank longer.
When they go dormant, which I've witnessed in both summer and midwinter, they die back and form little bulbs underground, resuming growth when conditions are favourable.
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I grow them and they do indeed resemble chives if you leave them to form large clumps. I split a large clump in hte spring of this year and planted 8 new ones from it. They are all thriving. I leave them alone all year round and they go dormant here in winter, popping up again in the spring. Useful plants to have in the plot.
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I swapped for some and they are settling in well...