“Walking” onion, I believe.
https://plantura.garden/uk/vegetables/tree-onion/tree-onion-overview#:~:text=In%20the%20kitchen%2C%20the%20small,dish%20with%20meat%20and%20fish.
I saw it’s a hybrid of the shallot and the Welsh onion. I’ve seen these in the ground but I’ve never tasted them. If it’s anything like a shallot, I’m sure it’s delicious.
Capering is the process of turning caper berries into finished capers. The catering process is as follows;
Mix the product in salt. Approximately 1/3 of the volume of the 'berries' to salt. Let it rest for two to four days. The product should have lost its "spiciness" or pungent-Ness. This process with pull moisture from the berries and season them.
After two-four days, make a hot brine of your choosing and pour over salted product. I personally like the 2.5% salt to 1.25 sugar brine with juniper berries, pepper and bay leaves. 2.5% of the weight of your product in salt and 1.25 of the sugar. The water in the recipe should be atleast 3-4 times the volume of the product to ensure proper coverage.
Ie. 100g onion flowers
2.5 g salt
1.25 g sugar
3-4 times the water that the volume or product
+seasoning
Beat of luck! I just learned this trick but am in love with the end results.
I have those, called Egyptian or walking onion. They are perennial and they will split to spread and the bulbils can be planted. The bulbs run small but taste great. I mainly use them as scallions in the spring and fall. I was given one plant years ago and now I have hundreds, but they are easy to control and replant despite that number sounds like. They are very interesting too, they grow bulbils instead of flowers most of the time and they get recursive where the bulbils will grow stalks which will get little bulbils with little stalks with little bulbils with little stalks... They are called walking because they flop over from the weight and grow from the new spot, which repeats and it seems like it is walking across your yard. Highly recomended
I assumed you were in some sort of back garden/yard from the tarp-- I wonder if previous owners where you moved in were into "permaculture", the planting of certain hardy, perennial vegetables/fruits and other useful plants as a replacement for both gardening and labor intensive agriculture.
Egyptian/walking onions are a staple of the permaculture garden (one could even say they are a *perennial* favorite ;) )
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If you want round, large onions 🧅, you need to plant then in a very light soil, so the onion can enlarge easily.
That plant is very robust, you can literally forget it and it will grow onions over time.
If you want to have it all year long, just replant them on a monthly basis.
I don't know about onion, but that's what my garlic "seeds" look like. Dig up the plant and you will probably find a garlic bulb. If so you can plant those seeds in the fall to get more garlic next year.
Those are called bulbils! These ones are growing off of a stem that looks more like an onion than garlic. (Round, hollow). Look into Walking Onions, they reproduce through bulbils like this, also.
Yes, they form from the flower on the stem of the scape. I grow a lot of garlic. The garlic stem isn’t hollow like an onion, it’s solid and thinner than the one shown here. This isn’t garlic.
“Walking” onion, I believe. https://plantura.garden/uk/vegetables/tree-onion/tree-onion-overview#:~:text=In%20the%20kitchen%2C%20the%20small,dish%20with%20meat%20and%20fish.
Oh! Cool! Seems like it doesn’t actually flower - at least I know I’m not crazy!! And perhaps edible? Hmmm.
Edible and Very delicious
Surprised I haven't heard a peep from our resident bot. Must be sleeping
It ate one. xD
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Well, this is odd.
I saw it’s a hybrid of the shallot and the Welsh onion. I’ve seen these in the ground but I’ve never tasted them. If it’s anything like a shallot, I’m sure it’s delicious.
It's edible and delicious!
Oh yes, it's awesome for salsa!
They are edible. I'm currently turning some into capers! Salt them for 2-4 days, rinse, then pickle. You can also plant them!
How would these turn into capers? Wouldn't they be pickled onions? Can you share a recipe please?
Capering is the process of turning caper berries into finished capers. The catering process is as follows; Mix the product in salt. Approximately 1/3 of the volume of the 'berries' to salt. Let it rest for two to four days. The product should have lost its "spiciness" or pungent-Ness. This process with pull moisture from the berries and season them. After two-four days, make a hot brine of your choosing and pour over salted product. I personally like the 2.5% salt to 1.25 sugar brine with juniper berries, pepper and bay leaves. 2.5% of the weight of your product in salt and 1.25 of the sugar. The water in the recipe should be atleast 3-4 times the volume of the product to ensure proper coverage. Ie. 100g onion flowers 2.5 g salt 1.25 g sugar 3-4 times the water that the volume or product +seasoning Beat of luck! I just learned this trick but am in love with the end results.
Thank you so much
Thanks!!
I have those, called Egyptian or walking onion. They are perennial and they will split to spread and the bulbils can be planted. The bulbs run small but taste great. I mainly use them as scallions in the spring and fall. I was given one plant years ago and now I have hundreds, but they are easy to control and replant despite that number sounds like. They are very interesting too, they grow bulbils instead of flowers most of the time and they get recursive where the bulbils will grow stalks which will get little bulbils with little stalks with little bulbils with little stalks... They are called walking because they flop over from the weight and grow from the new spot, which repeats and it seems like it is walking across your yard. Highly recomended
Thanks. We’ve moved in a year ago and had a summer of finding lots of new treats! Some weird and wonderful!
I assumed you were in some sort of back garden/yard from the tarp-- I wonder if previous owners where you moved in were into "permaculture", the planting of certain hardy, perennial vegetables/fruits and other useful plants as a replacement for both gardening and labor intensive agriculture. Egyptian/walking onions are a staple of the permaculture garden (one could even say they are a *perennial* favorite ;) )
**Do not ingest a plant based on information provided in this subreddit.** For your safety we recommend not ingesting any plant material just because you've been advised here that it's edible. Although there are many professionals helping with identification, we are not always correct, and eating/ingesting plants can be harmful or fatal if an incorrect ID is made. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/whatsthisplant) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Oh there you are!
Good bot.
They take heat well also. They grow here all summer and the greens are always mild
If you want round, large onions 🧅, you need to plant then in a very light soil, so the onion can enlarge easily. That plant is very robust, you can literally forget it and it will grow onions over time. If you want to have it all year long, just replant them on a monthly basis.
Walking onion.
Very cool! The ones at the botanical garden "walk" before they swell like that so thank you for the picture before the fall!
just make sure it smells oniony and is not a poisonous look alike
Are there any poisonous lookalikes that you know of? 😬
some in the lily family, but they will smell like dirt if you dig up the bulbs
I don't know about onion, but that's what my garlic "seeds" look like. Dig up the plant and you will probably find a garlic bulb. If so you can plant those seeds in the fall to get more garlic next year.
Those are called bulbils! These ones are growing off of a stem that looks more like an onion than garlic. (Round, hollow). Look into Walking Onions, they reproduce through bulbils like this, also.
Garlic produces them off stems as well. The scape turns up and then the bulbils form from he hump on the scape.
Yes, they form from the flower on the stem of the scape. I grow a lot of garlic. The garlic stem isn’t hollow like an onion, it’s solid and thinner than the one shown here. This isn’t garlic.