Bumching Onions-Transplant or Direct Seed

Found a good variety for my area.

What's the best way to plant to get best results?

BB

I planted some Evergreen Bunching onions in the greenhouse. Just sprinkled the seed on to some potting soil in 3" pots, kept moist, and germinated quickly. They are up about 2" now. I'll set them out in the garden this spring. Once they are established, you just divide them, replant, and you will have them for years.

I thought bunching onions were green onions. Guess not, so can you explain the difference.

Same here. We plant Evergreen Bunching onions by seed in the spring. Late July we start pulling them. About pencil size then. If any are left we leave them for early crop the next spring.

msrobin. The bunching onion is a multiplying green onion. It will never make a bulb, just keeps making more "green tails".

Is this the same as scallions? Or are they something different?

Thanks.

Scallion is a catch all name for green onions, spring onions in most cases. Some sources tie the scallion to the Welsh onion, Allium fistulosum. The term is also applied to the shallot (Allium cepa Aggregatum Group) . Any onion used before it bulbs is called a spring onion or scallion. Bunching onions cover the same arena as spring onions, but have been developed to never bulb. When you look for cultivars grouped as bunching onions, you will find them under Allium fistoleum, Allium Cepa Aggregatum Group, or Allium Cepa. The first two groups are multipliers, but not all bunching onions are multipliers. Allium fistoleum is the perennial form which grows in clumps.

LOL! Farmerdill, I may learn something, yet! Thank you. :)

I have multipliers and always though of them as "bunching" as they form a cluster of bulbs. I will now have to rethink it. Farmerdill ~ thank you for that clarification.

I am planting Evergreen.

Needed a scallion type to go with my bulbong onions

BB, I sow my Evergreen and Parade bunching onions directly. Sometimes I sow them in bands, sometimes in rows. I am experimenting with starting the seeds in my seedbed and transplanting because I do my bulbing onions that way and they seem to grow a lot faster.
This winter for some reason my onions and carrots are taking forever to be ready. I guess it is the crazy weather.

do they require a lot of thinning?

BB

I seed mine with an Earthway seeder. Only thinning is to start pulling when they are small. They are good no matter how big.