Egyptian walking onions 4
After 3 weeks away visiting family and friends in New South Wales, one of my first tasks were to check on the potted plants, my main concern was my Egyptian walking onions, before we left for holidays I transplanted the Bulbs into pots outside, after hardening them for around a week. I also checked the Bulblets, the bulblets weren’t showing any signs of development (Part 3).
The Bulblets’ lack of development concerned me. I’d never cultivated Egyptian walking onions before. I watched a few Youtube videos to see if they needed certain weather conditions to trigger root development, however the videos indicated that the bulblets aren’t viable once cut from the mother plant.
Still determined to keep trying I opted for the set and forget method of gardening.
We arrived home at 1:30am so I checked my bulbs before heading off to bed and was happy to see they had taken to the outdoors potted life with no setbacks, my biggest worry was that they would not handle the frost after spending their first month inside the house sheltered from the cold, even though onions are a cold growing season crop the extreme shift in conditions could have upset them,, thankfully however they have tolerated the extreme frost well.
The following morning I decided to check all my other potted plants before heading out to check the cows. whilst checking the potatoes and the herbs I noticed the Bulblets had changed and its was exciting to see that 4 of the 5 bulblets had grown tops
I consider both Bulb and Bulblets a success, I eagerly anticipate nurturing these Onions until they begin “walking” and producing new bulblets.
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