The 2 bunches of little ones grow together like shallots in the garden, in little bunches. These are "Four Seasons" and were started from seed in April. They were transplanted out in July.

The larger onions on top in the photo are Tokyo White. It took quite a bit of stripping to remove the tough older leaves but seed was planted in the greenhouse way back in late winter and they've been in the open garden the entire growing season. And yes, they were used as scallions from the get-go . . . and here they are today.

Tokyo White and some of the other bunching onions I have grown do not grow in a "bunch" in the same way Four Seasons does. They looked rather like leeks when I pulled these out a couple days ago. However, they are onions with the characteristic hollow leaves and flavor.

. . . . scallions all season long? I don't know of a better way!

Steve

My Evergreen bunching-challenged bunching onions decided, finally, to bunch, somewhere in late August. And the catalogs tell me that I can separate them in the spring and have even more bunching-challenged onions. But each one has 5 or 6 little guys wrapped up. I'm going to set up a deer barrier and see what happens to them over the winter.

I tried growing some hybrid Japanese green onions as well, planting in late June. - they're great, but the market wasn't nearly as good as the Evergreen.

I did "bunch" them and take 'em to market. And, hopefully, that's were those hot peppers will go. I'm afraid that I went overboard with the Super Chilies this year. The record cold we have been having helped but there's only so many of these necessary for supplemental heating.

Keeping these onions thru the winter is just something I haven't tried despite first growing them about 20 years ago. I don't know how they'd survive the winter but my guess is that they'd bolt immediately to seed come spring.

Some folks say that they can use bunching onions for a perennial onion bed. I wouldn't want to allow that with self-sowing, however. Baby onions are tooooo much trouble to thin and, especially, to weed to allow them much freedom. And then, they don't compete very well with the weeds. You'd think they'd have some kind of allelopathic qualities in the environment - you know, like people moving away on a city bus . . .

Crybabies but ya gotta love 'em . . .

Steve