What are you going to do with all those hot peppers?

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've grown Evergreen a number of times, David. They never "bunched" for me.

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