I am finishing up sorting out my seeds and will be mailing out tomorrow.

Anyone have any last request from my seeds they missed? Most of my harvested seeds i should have more of, so just let me know!

@stitchwitch i have the juniper for you.

I will also be including some Egyptian walking onion bulbils for everyone. From my understanding they need to go into the ground asap. Unfortunately i do not know much about them. This is my 1st year with them and i had tons pop up on my property. If anyone has tips for everyone please share!

How nice of you to offer
I've never heard of Egyptian Walking Onions popping up without having been planted. Could it be these Wild Onion (Allium vineale) vs. these Egyptian Walking Onion (Allium x proliferum) ?

@janinilulu
It is something from a previous owner of my house. This was our first summer here. But they are in 3 different areas with other spring bulbs (daffodils are literally everywhere).
They are not like any wild onions i have seen before. Because of where they are growing I believe they were planted on purpose.

I used a plant id app to identify them after the flowers turned to bulbils. Then i did a lot of googling. Unfortunately, i have gotten a new phone since and i have no photos of the flower heads or the bulbils growing on the plant.

In the spring they look and smell much like chives. About midd summer may they form a curled tip with a pointy flower forming and then eventually the flower. From what i remember the main bulb of the mature plants were similar to the size of garlic. I think it had a harder stem at the base when it was mature. I could be wrong but i think the bulb was about the size of a half dollar coin.

I am kicking myself for not saving any pictures of it as it grew.

I am not sure how they do dry or if they will even grow. I have had them stored in an open container in my basement. When bagging them up i noticed i have several starting to sprout. Ill attached a photo of that.

Here are mine in early July:

(these are in a cultivated garden bed and are 2-3 years old...I forget) I don't remember ever seeing flowers on them, just bulblets.
just found a pic from early July 2019:


I forgot to mention that I'd like to mirror your offer. If there was something of mine anyone really wanted but missed out on please let me know and I'll see what I can do.

A couple of mine had flowers this year. I kept an eye out for seeds but didn't see where any formed.

@janinilulu yes! That is what I have. Except mine had much larger heads on them. Each one gave maybe 10 bulbils or more. Judging by the about here, I'd say they have been here a long time.


@MrsBinWY my understanding was that they do not produce a seed at all, just little bulbils. In the picture it looks like some may have been starting to form on the stalk to the right. I could be wrong tho
It's hard to tell on a phone screen and I can't zoom in.

Joa922010 said:@janinilulu yes! That is what I have. Except mine had much larger heads on them. Each one gave maybe 10 bulbils or more. Judging by the about here, I'd say they have been here a long time.

Yay! That's a very nice gift you're giving to everyone; Egyptian Walking Onion is a very useful plant!

Joa, your walking onions will make a great gift for everyone! I would agree to put them in the ground asap. I can attest that they aren't picky about soil conditions.

For anyone who hasn't heard of them, they are a perennial onion, hardy down to zone 3:
Egyptian Walking Onion (Allium x proliferum)

@Joa922010 thank you so much for the added gift. I will make sure I pop them in as soon as they get here.

That's nice, Joa922010. I had them once before and I will enjoy having them again. A question though, even though I had a nice patch of them, I never ate them. Do they taste like "normal" onions? Don't know why I never tried them. I always just grew other onions and left those alone.

@poisondartfrog I actually did not try them this year. I didn't know what they were until they started to form the bulbils. I have read it's best to use them young, like chives. This spring I will be harvesting and dehydrating them for that. I believe you can also dry and powder the bulbs and bulbils and use them as onion powder.

Maybe someone else has more input .

We've eaten the walking onions. They're like eating a sweet onion, extra delicious when grilled. This time of year when the greens are coming up, we use them like we would regular bunching onions.

Thank you Christine!

Thank you Olivia! How thoughtful and kind of you.

And thank you everyone. A very merry Christmas to you all

I have been experimenting with walking onions the last few years. They are probably best used as bunching onions in early spring and summer. After the heat of summer, mine get quite hot, but can still be used for cooking like shallots. Mine are a red skinned/purple variety. Too spicy to eat raw once the drought comes, but interestingly they do not die back in high summer like other alliums do. The ones that send up a flower stalk tend to burn up the bulb in high summer but the bloomers end up dividing into more smaller but still usable bulbs if you wait until late summer/fall to dig them for the bulb. You can also take the bulbils and replant in a row and have usable small shallot-like bulbs the same season where I am in 5b. They grow just fine if you throw the whole bulbil head in together, too. Don't need to separate them, but they probably will get slightly bigger bulbs if you do plant individual bulbils. I like to dig up a whole clump at once so that way is easier for me.