Back to onions......
Last year I finally found an onion that grows really well here.... they're called Texas Early Grano onions. Nice big bulbs that kept well instead of lots of thin green onions with no real bulbs. I have Egyptian Waking onions for that. So I left 10 onions in the corner of my garden over the winter to go to seed for me because I want to keep growing these forever. Each was a good sized bulb spaced about 6" apart. They soon got very thick and overgrown (picture # 1) and I ignored them all winter. My favorite kind of gardening! They are now sending up their scapes and starting to go to seed so I took pictures for you.
Each one split into 3-5 separate onions over the winter and now they're all squished together. Now I wish I had taken a closer look at them over the winter to see what that looked like. But they're growing well and setting seed. Picture 2 is hard to see but it's what they look like. Picture 3 is one bulb that was growing all by itself and gives a better idea of what is happening. All these seeds will last me for many years. I hope the next time I need to save seeds I remember to plant them maybe 10-12" apart.
Back to my weedwhacking. Bye.
