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These Onions can survive freezing cold winters well below -24°! They are hardy to zone 3.Walking Onions taste just like a regular onion, The entire plant can be eaten. Small onions form at the base in the soil. They can be eaten and prepared just like any other onion. The hollow greens may be chopped to eat like chives or green onions. They are excellent when fried, cooked in soups, or raw in salads . The bulblets that grow from the top are excellent when peeled and fried. You can even pickle them. Or just pop them in your mouth
Harvesting the topsets: In late summer and autumn The time to pick the tops is when the leafstalk has dried and turned brown. Most likely, fallen over. Despite their name, these plants are very easy to control and keep from spreading just by harvesting the top-sets.
Harvesting the greens: The greens (leaves) may be cut and harvested at any time. If you harvest all the greens from one plant, the plant will probably not be able to produce tops for that year. If the plant is producing several leaf stalks, just harvest one or two of smaller side leaves, and the plant should still produce topsets. Soon after you have harvested the leaves from an Egyptian Walking Onion plant, new leaves will start to grow in their place which can be harvested again. If you live in a mild climate, your Egyptian Walking Onion plant may produce greens all year round. In the fall after the tops have matured and fallen to the ground, or they have been harvested, new greens may start to grow.
Harvesting the onion bulbs in the ground:
The onions at the base of the plant that are growing in the ground and can be harvested in late summer and fall. Leave some onions in the ground for next year's crop. A Walking Onion bulb is about the same size and shape as a shallot. Bigger bulbs may be obtained by cutting off the topsets before they develop. This way the plant can put its energy into the onion bulb instead of into the tops.

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Original
0oooooo nice! You will never run out of these! Hope there will be repeat auctions!
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Jul 30th, 2011 at 9:08:50 PM PDT by
Original
Almost all of my egyptian onions were wiped out do to heavy flooding in the spring and now a drought! I love these onions and was in hopes of making my seafood garlic sauce with these this year....grrrr now i have to start over! Thank you for offering them. :)
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Aug 2nd, 2011 at 8:00:10 AM PDT by
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very neat! Watching
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Aug 2nd, 2011 at 11:32:39 AM PDT by
Original
you will get 10 bulbs
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Jul 27th, 2011 at 10:28:54 AM PDT by
Original
Thanks, I fanned you back.
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Jul 28th, 2011 at 5:48:52 AM PDT by
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Hope this helps I coppied it off the internet
Spring: Sets will grow throughout the spring and summer and develop tall green leaves and bulb/root growth in the ground. Since it is the plant's first growing season, it will probably not produce topsets.
Summer: Sets planted at this time will grow roots and leafstalks, and have some onion bulb development in the ground, but they will not produce topsets.
Fall: Sets planted at this time will grow roots and leafstalks only. The leafstalk will die back for the winter. The onion bulb will develop a little in the ground and store enough energy to carry the plant through the winter. A leafstalk will reemerge in the spring and the plant will grow throughout the spring and summer to maturity.
Winter: Sets are planted at this time of the year only if the soil is not frozen solid. If you can dig a 1" to 2" deep hole in the soil, then you can plant your sets. The sets will not grow much at all - maybe a little bit of root growth only, unless you live where the winters are mild. If this is the case, you might also get a leafstalk. When planting in the winter, mulching is a good idea. In fact, mulching is good practice at any time of the year. Mulching keeps the weeds down, prevents unnecessary water evaporation and erosion, and fertilizes your plants.
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Jul 29th, 2011 at 9:19:25 AM PDT by
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Aug 2nd, 2011 at 7:50:33 AM PDT by
Original
Sorry to hear that, and your welcome I hope you enjoy. They are pretty good eatting.
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Aug 2nd, 2011 at 8:22:42 AM PDT by
Original
Thank you
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Aug 2nd, 2011 at 4:56:15 PM PDT by
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hey I heard that if you check the on the rihgt it gives a credit so I'm going to push them for every here let me know if it is true please. thanks
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Aug 2nd, 2011 at 4:59:18 PM PDT by

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