These are Egyptian Walking Onions - a kind of perennial green onion. I love them for this very reason - long before any other green thing is edible in my garden we will be enjoying the tangy sweetness of their fresh flavour. I love the little miracle that they are - generating enough heat in this cold to emerge from the frosty ground.
And I love living in the Okanagan where we don't need a holiday like Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario for a break in mid-winter in February. This isn't mid-winter. This is the very end of winter. The snow is inexorably melting. Spring is surely sneaking in.
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What an interesting name for an onion. I wonder where the name comes from, does it have a spreading habit, and that is what is meant by walking???
Hi Heather, here is a good description and even some pics http://www.craftygardener.ca/infowalkingonions.html
As for why they are called that, I don't know. Although I have found in our climate that the old onion stalk doesn't die but puts out new shoots in the spring (that's what is poking out of the snow right now)and in addition, I get the 'walking' part as well (the topset bulbs that plant themselves). I love having the problem of thinning them...
it's true isn't it? spring is coming!! i'm so excited.
yeah! trees are blooming downtown and I can see shoots coming up everywhere...soon there'll be crocuses and daffodils! :D
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