Growing Onions - Second Take
Green Onions
My friend used to work for a company which made organic Sauerkraut, Kimchi, and a few other things. For a while, she would bring me all the cabbage scraps to feed to my chicken. And sometimes, a box or two of produce would go a little limp and she would bring that too.
I belong to a Buy Nothing group, and when I got a couple of boxes of green onions (36 bunches of onions in each) I gave many away and ate many more.
Having onions on my mind, it was the perfect time to start an experiment I had been wanting to do for a long time. Regrow onions after cutting them.
Growing Green Onions - Take Two
For my experiment, I only ate the green part of some of the bunches. Of course, I left the roots on and about 2 inches of the white stem.
Then I placed the bunch into a cup filled with plain water.
I packed as many bunches as I could into the cup.
As you can see, five bunches made it in and the tops are evenly cut off.
I tried to remember to change the water every day - at least, every other day.
A couple of days later, this started to happen.
We are seeing some growth!! A few days later, we are definitely seeing green shooting up.
Every day, there is more growth!
I found this to be a good time to cut the greens or to eat the whole onion at this point.
I tried to repeat the process over again but that didn't work out too well. Partly, it probably was my fault by not changing the water enough, but I am also suspecting that I needed to add some nutrients to the water.
I planted a few of the third try onions into the soil and a couple of them made it. I am thinking that it might have been more successful to plant them after the second harvest.
I probably won't repeat this experiment since I actually like to eat the white part of the onion and I do have enough land to grow as many onions as I need. I let some mature onions go to seed and then harvest the babies as I need them. However, if I wouldn't have a yard and a year-round growing season, this is a great way to get a second harvest and save some hard earned cash.
It was worth the try!!
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Wow thanks for sharing, this looks easy. I like green onions and I'm gonna try this! So I don't need to buy more.
You can certainly stretch that grocery money....
That's so neat! I love seeing "discarded" food get used well and better than being thrown in the garbage. We used to have a salvage grocery store near our house in Ohio (before we moved) and I spent a whole summer canning and enjoying pounds of discarded strawberries, peaches, and tons of other food that was otherwise destined for the dumpster.
I would dumpster-dive for stuff if I could, but they lock them up around here. A shame!
I used to own a grocery store and it is amazing how much food has to be pulled. People just won't buy something which doesn't look perfect in their eyes. I used to have a lady come every day and take it to a soup kitchen. Technically, that was probably not even legal - I know restaurants have to jump through hoops to give their leftovers to homeless, for example.
I do understand that dumpsters get locked. We had people come by at night and make huge messes for us to clean up in the morning.....
That's so fascinating to hear it from the grocery-store-owner's perspective! I had no idea that people would leave messes like that...how rude.
Yes, it was rude and also got us into trouble. For a while, we had a medfly quarantine and any fruit or produce had to be double bagged in plastic trash bags. If any was showing - fine. Well, we did that. Then somebody came at night to dig for rabbit food or something (if they would have let me know, I would have saved it for them to pick up) and left a mess.
The inspectore came first thing in the morning. Boom. Fine.....