Texas Gardening: Onion Family Oddities - Anyone Growing Them?, 1 by podster

podster wrote:
Hi Riceke ~ I'm not as far east as you are now LOL but I am about 2 hours north of New Caney, east of Lufkin near Toledo Bend deep in the pineywoods.

These multiplier onions are about the size of a quarter. They form large dinner plate sized clumps of onions. You can harvest the tender green growth in winter, In early summer, I dig these clumps, dry and separate them and use them as using normal onions albiet smaller. I set the larger onions aside and will replant them in the fall. The gumbos resemble these but are definitely a hotter taste.

Last fall, I also planted I'itoi's onion for the first time. The foliage is delicate and I haven't harvested any onions as I am trying to get a good batch established. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/161092/ Kristi