Keep green onions multiplying and you'll never have to buy green onions again

how would you like to have some green onions or bunching onions and never have to buy any ever again if you'll follow these simple instructions you're going to have green onions from now on a friend of mine gave me these bunching onions about 8 or 10 years ago they multiplied so well that I kept dividing them up and I put them in different places throughout my garden today I'm going to dig these back up I'm going to divide them and I'm going to put them back in the place where I originally planted them they did really well there and I'm going to free up a little bit of space here in my garden this is a seed pod if you let that mature and burst open it will plant more onions all around where this original mother plant is however you really don't want that to happen and I'm going to show you why in just a little bit right now I'm going to dig these up and I'm going to divide them but the first thing you do may surprise you when my friend gave me the first bunch she said cut them way back and she emphasized it and I mean way back so I'm only leaving about 2 in here above the roots now I'm going to clean those up slice them up and freeze them and they'll be great for Soups now that I've cut them back I'm going to dig them up and divide them so you see we have lots of onion started here and what they do is they just keep multiplying from the inside here's a new one starting a really young one and another really young one here here are some that I cut back just a week ago see how they grow back so you're not going to hurt them I only need a few of these for our salad tonight so you just cut down in between the roots pull them out you've got green onions so I'm going to cut the rest of these way back because they're making seed heads and that actually slows them up from dividing at the bottom so it's kind like they're going to do one or the other if you let them go to seed that's how they're going to reproduce but if you cut them way back they will divide and keep going from the bottom I'm going to take you over to where I originally had planted them and I'll show you what happens when you let the seed heads burst open and spread their seeds around this Barrel right here is where I had the original ones planted they didn't look like that and I'll explain that in a minute but I transferred a lot of them out to the garden and I left some in here and I kind of neglected the ones that I had left in this barrel and they grew those seed pods and they burst and they began to sprout inside the other barrels that you see here but they also spread their seeds right into the grass it's around here let me see if I can get this in focus this here this is onions this is grass this is onions here's some more and some more they've been spreading a little bit further out into the yard here and I've just kind of let them go cuz I really don't care but I want to show you that you're not going to get any onions out of these that's it that's all you're going to get they're not near as big as these that have been cut back and let regrow and bunch out from the bottom and they don't make an onion bulb so Just for kicks I replanted some and cared for them just to see what was would happen and look they're already making seed heads so I'm going to move these little wild strawberries to the side they're from another state and I kind of figured they wouldn't do so well here but there you go that's the only that's as big as you get right there now I guess I had nothing better to do one day and I dug some up and I I made all these little tiny pearl onions and had them as a garnish in one of our soups and gravy but really and truly that's it even if you try to nurse them and grow them that's all you're going to get so what I'm going to do is transfer these back into these barrels strawberries and onions grow together very well and quite honestly most of my wild berries here have died off and they didn't do anything anyway so I'm thinking I'll just go ahead and plant the onions in between them and if they continue to die off that's okay so just divide them up tease them apart here and you're only going to bury him about that deep that original bunch of bunching onions did better here than the ones that I've transferred out into the garden and since this is mostly soil from the garden the only thing I can figure about why they're doing better here is well it's partially shaded here most of the day so maybe they just prefer partial shade I'm not real sure on that don't quote me on that but that's what I'm thinking don't let your bunching onions go to seed cut them back split them up and Transplant them that way you'll have green onions for years to come thanks for watching give it a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe you won't want to miss all the other things that I talk about throughout the year great [Music] isto me

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Length: 8min 55sec (535 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 05 2024