Allium Forum?

Would anyone be interested in an Allium Forum or is it just me?

I love Alliums, but I only have a few different ones.... I think they converse about them on the bulb forum.... I would go there if we had a forum specifically for them...

Yes! We need an Allium forum.

Anyone else??

Yes, I grow alliums and have many questions about both the edible and the ornamental and the weedy ones.

Yes, please!

I have just gotten interested in Alluims and I don't have a clue about how to grow them, so an Alluim Forum would be great.

Peggy

Here's another Allium afficianado. I'd love it!

Wouldn't this be part of the Bulbs forum?

I am not sure whether alliums behave the same way as tulips and daffodils. For sure alliums tend to be grown for their bulbs, whereas tulips and daffodils are grown for their flowers.
Is there room in the bulb forum for those of us who want to know if we can grow bulbing onions after the solstice, which was definitely one of my most recent questions.

I would support an allium forum Meg. Did you see the article this month in Horticulture on them - I didn't know ther were kinds that bloomed so late in the year.
Al

Thanks Al and no I didn't see that article, but it sounds interesting, I'll definitely check it out.

andycdn - I guess the same could be said of morning glory forum in that it could be posted under annuals. Or of the coneflower forum in that it could be posted under perennials (of course we all love the coneflower Al). The reason people ask for a new forum is to see if there are enough other people interested in that specific forum too. As you can see by many of the individual forums listed at DG, you can get much more information on a topic-specific forum as opposed to a general topic forum. :)

I have received several different Alluim seeds from trades. Now how do I plant them, now or in the spring? Sun or shade? How deep?

The ??? are never ending.

Alliums is a broad group. Onions (what type) , garlic, shallots, ornamentals ? The edibles questions would get better responses in the vegetable forum. The competition has an aliums group, but all that ever shows up is the edibles and not much traffic there.

I agree with you, lafko06... it's certainly worth a try. That's how we got our fern forum!

What a bummer Farmerdill... I guess it's just me and a very rare few who are hooked on them (actually I'm obsessed lol), but if there's no traffic over at the other place, then I doubt we'll get it here. Maybe down the road people will want to try this forum again. ;(

PS -- thanks anyway andycdn. :)

Jumping in again, I would love to see a forum on Ornamental Alliums. Bulbs, yes. But I treat them as I would a perennial, placing them throughout the gardens as accent points, which begin in spring with the wonderful tall and in-your-face huge blooms and continue through mid to late-October in my mid-coast Maine location.

Aliums are a slightly mysterious plant. The edible ones tend to be planted in the spring, but some can be planted in the fall. Why? Which ones? Some make little bunches of plants -- some people call those shallots. But when I buy a shallot, I get a plant that goes in the ground in the spring and matures in early summer. Are there onions ( not shallots or garlic) that can be planted in mid-summer for a fall crop with bulbs? I sure want to know which ones if there is such a plant. Then there is the entire mysterious business of which onion produces at which lattitude. I have had a hard time getting these questions answered. Maybe what we really need is an uber whose specialty is alliums -- not just the ones we eat every day, but all of them.

The nation, India, eats so many onions that its economy is dependent on the onion. Just before the last ( or maybe it was the second to last) election for Prime Minister there was an onion crop failure which caused a different party to be elected than the one which had been running the country for quite a long time. Now, I bet there is a person from India who knows every thing there is to know about growing alliums. We need that person.

Perhaps, but the edible ones are straightforward and no more mysterious that than any other garden plant. Certainly there are folks from various parts of the country who grow leeks, shallots., onions, leeks, garlic etc.and ther are lots of questions and answers in the Veggie forum. By the way they are a cool weather crop, unless you have very cool summers you would not want to start any of them outside in mid August. Like most cool weather crops, here they must be grown early spring or winter. Which onion produces at which latitude simple, If you want an onion, planted in spring to harvest in early summer ( June bulbing) longday onion. If you grow onions in winter, bulbing in March for harvest in April (shortday onions) If you are inbetween plant day neutral onions Usually in early spring. Less complicated than say brassicas or cucurbits.

In 3 weeks only 10 people have posted to this thread. I'd say for now there's not enough interest to warrant an entire new forum to this subject...

best,
dave