Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Please take pictures!, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Susan,

There's nothing "special" you need to do with the "Pregnant Onion". Sorry if I forgot, but did you get one from me at hart's?
Come winter, I just put it on my laundry room windowsill in the basement and forget it. Not saying this is what one is supposed to do, but that is what I do. I don't have room for all my plants by my windows. I imagine it would be happy to be taken in and given a nice growing spot.

Propagation?--Just wait until one of the babies sends out a tiny leaf-spike of it's own. They don't have to be big to do so. Mine are outside in this heavy. I have about 4 or 5 "onions" in there. many of the babies are also under the soil level and some are sending up small leaf-spikes.

IF I make it to the Fall swap (would like to...), I will have some small "baby onions" I can pot up and bring. I have several sprouting.
Just take one of them and put it in a small clay pot. It may be a couple of years before it is bigger size, but then again--you never have to fuss over this plant.

Last fall I turned out the whole clay window box to separate the plants.
They had been in there about 4 or 5 years. It was solid with roots! I had to BRUTALLY rip them all apart. The baby onions were falling off left and right. Rolling around like marbles.

Here's some pictures of the process.........This is a surface shot of how crowded they can get.



This message was edited Jun 25, 2007 9:58 AM