Onions - Egyptian (or Walking) Onions

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Onions - Egyptian (or Walking) Onions

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Back pre-Y2K a friend of ours gave us a handful of onion bulbs and warned us they would spread - it is a perennial. I planted them in a corner on the side of the house and soon decided they had to be transplanted to a more permanent spot in the garden, which I did. The next year I picked a small boxful of bulbs and sent them to a correspondant in Texas. I'm sure by now they have covered half the state :)

These onions are very good as green onions (scallions) when you get them early but they turn tough when they start bulbing at the TOP of the stem. I guess thats where they get the name "walking onion". When I transplanted them into a 15-foot-long bed that I had constructed from old broken up sidewalk concrete, they were in one corner and now have spread to about 3 feet of the bed.
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