i was bringing in the einkorn wheat that was in this half barrel when i noticed that the aerial bulbs on this egyptian walking onion...
had sprouted...so after i cleared the barrel...
i carefully removed them from the stem...
and planted them...
incidentally this is what happens to the parent plant when you don't pinch off the aerial bulbs and let the plant invest energy in producing them...something of a minimalist onion...just a heads up...
my interest piqued, i wandered over to the strawberry/jerusalem artichoke bed where this onion that had been challenging the sunchokes has toppled over...
the jerusalem artichokes are in full bloom by the way...a sure sign that it is august and that september tubers and autumn are closer than we might think...time's passing by you know...
a couple of the stems on this behemoth had produced two tiers of aerial bulbs...
while these over by the seedless grapes limited themselves to just one tier...
i took the double tiers...leaving the rest in the beds where they were to root there and repopulate ( all perennials are invasive colonizers...these walking onions are no different )...
and planted them around the yard...some in containers...
and some out in the east bed to cohabit with the strawberries and asparagus...all happy roomies...
on a last allium note, the ramp seeds are coming along nicely..the cases will be splitting open to reveal the black seeds soon and i will be spreading those and the ones i collected last season around to , hopefully, increase the local ramp population.
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