Egyptian Walking Onions, Topsetting Onions

I've been growing these for about 8 years now - I just leave them to grow and harvest the bulbils for giving away, or for selling etc; and I've not encountered this before.


The tops are usually quite small, a few mm in diameter, sometimes a cm but this year, they are the size of shallots.

From this:

 

To this:

And this is also the year that I got garlic that did not split:

I usually note if something strange happens and this is it. 

We didn't have much frost last winter; can it be something as simple as frost that makes such a huge difference to our perennial crops? 

I shall eat some of the Walking Onions, I mean it's a bonus as usually they are not worth peeling let alone eating; and I'll sow one large and one small and see what happens. But I am liking this new style Walking Onion alot.

Potting on

I've not taken photos as honestly; I feel like rubbish today and CBA to get the camera out. However - I have potted on the Egyptian Walking Onions and the Babington Leeks. There's a fair few in both so I'll only keep half of each I think and give the others away. As they do look good in borders, I am guessing I'll have a few people willing to take them off my hands and grow them on who have lovely ornamentals on their plots/gardens.


So here is a pic of Babington Leeks I took 18 months ago, in the Cook's Garden at Garden Organic, Ryton Gardens.

Oh, and the Sorrel is up and looking good. So that will be potted on soon and grown probably in a trough with other random salad leaves.

First sowings from the 2011 Seed Circle

Ok, so first to go in were the Babington Leeks and the Egyptian Walking Onions. They have been sown in a try with some garlic inbetween; not much to see yet but photos of starts are always as good as photos of the finished crops!