Comments on: Growing Potted Spring Onions from an Onion

By: Sissi

Sissi — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:42:56 +0000

Kelly, thank you so much for dropping by and telling me this. I was worried it wouldn’t work. My onion produced three or four generations of greens before dying. (I had to throw away all the soil with the onion because it was completely invaded with onion roots).

By: Kelly @ Inspired Edibles

Kelly @ Inspired Edibles — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:48:51 +0000

Sissi, I had to drop in to tell you what a wonderful success your method was!! In fact, I snapped a photo of my beautiful onion sprouts to share with you – I used them in our turkey burgers the other night (I wish I had snapped the photo before snipping the tall greens though ). Anyway, I hope to get it up on my blog sometime this summer…(I am dreadfully behind in my posts… oh well, life is busy with little (big) ones ).

By: Sissi

Sissi — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:17:53 +0000

Thank you, Kelly for your comment. I couldn’t answer at once because I was away this weekend, but I’m so excited to learn you have started the onion experiment I hope it will be a good success (my onion is having a “second generation” of “leaves” now and keeps on growing!). I cross my fingers for yours!

By: Kelly @ Inspired Edibles

Kelly @ Inspired Edibles — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:08:35 +0000

Hi Sissi – inspired by this great post, I planted an onion yesterday as part of my mother’s day gardening adventure. I will keep my fingers crossed for it to sprout – such a gorgeous time of year – I am hopeful!! Thank you Sissi.

By: Sissi

Sissi — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:21:51 +0000

Such a pity! I hope you can plant them once more. I hate the way the weather can destroy plants. Even my humble balcony plants were in danger a week ago: there was a hailstorm and almost 1/2 cm diameter balls were falling on my small sprouting herbs. Luckily I was at home and took all the containers inside. I have never heard of may beetles. Maybe they don’t like balconies I have however problems with some other insects. Thanks for the warning!

By: Helene Dsouza I Masala Herb

Helene Dsouza I Masala Herb — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:08:49 +0000

I share your excitment… I love to watch my plants grow it always fascinates me. I did the same experiment a few months back, unfortunately my plants didnt survive the heavy rains (realy humid monsoon) so they dies after 2 weeks. I know my parents have troubel with may beetles when they plant theirs, so keep an eye out for insects!

By: Sissi

Sissi — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:19:15 +0000

Very interesting… And how do you call shallots? (small oval onions). i’m sometimes completely lost in the different English languages spoken all around the world.

By: Chopinand @ ChopinandMysaucepan

Chopinand @ ChopinandMysaucepan — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:30:04 +0000

Dear Sissi,

This reminds me about a time when I went for an extended vacation and saw a few of my onions in the pantry sprouting spring onions like your photo. We call them shallots in Australia and I love them especially in chinese cooking. The taste different when diced into small rings or julienne finely and it makes an elegant “v” shape for garnishes.

By: Sissi

Sissi — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:11:48 +0000

Thank you, Juliana. I hope you are having a lovely week too.

By: Sissi

Sissi — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:11:28 +0000

Hi, Charles. Thanks for the idea although since I don’t use leek greens often, I suppose the green onions are more useful (I use them all the time).