It must be a year since my dad gave me some walking onions. Having nowhere in the ground to put them, they went in some pots, where I watched them grow and form onion heads. Then I wondered what might happen next.
Last week, I noticed that a bunch of onions had fallen off the plant (featured above, near the rhubarb), so I decided to leave them in situ. Maybe I wouldn’t have chosen this spot but a plant’s gotta do what a plant’s gotta do.
I wouldn’t call a leap of faith ‘walking’, however – I certainly hadn’t had an image of onions jumping. Rather, I assumed the plant was suffering and a branch had simply broken off.
Indeed, this might well have happened – or I simply hadn’t noticed the phenomenon I saw today. Basically, a dying stem was lowered to the ground, where the onions at its point could root and make their own way in the world. Isn’t that just so graceful?
Growing out of chaos 
It is so graceful and very clever .. I grow them also. Wonderful to cook with 🙂
My mum has cooked with them but I haven’t got that far yet. Maybe once they have established in the garden and I have a reliable crop.
That is just so cool Helen, never heard of it before but love it. An onion plant with attitude 🙂
Attitude indeed!
🙂
I’ve never heard of walking onions. What efficiency. I’m amazed at the variety ways to self-propagate. I hope you get a bumper crop.
Thank you, Alys.