Growing Green Onions

Tip: Growing Green Onions

When you buy bunches of green onions, you can replant them and clip the outsides over and over until it gets hot and they go to seed. Clip about 2 inches above the white and gently trim the roots, just a bit. Get a pot with good soil, stick your index finger in and stick in the green onion. This will work even if they have been in the fridge and not up to par.

Depending on where you live, find a place they like. I am in Arizona now and have them potted on a table under a tree, if that helps. But, I also did the same in Oregon. Figure it out and you'll get way better tasting green onions over and over.

By pamelaw from Sun Lakes, AZ

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RE: Growing Green Onions

You buy one good bunch of green onions and replant. Gently trim roots, cut off the tops to eat except the center. Replant in one pot, water well, and they come back many times over. Just find a place they are happy campers. Depending on where you live you may want to spritz them. I have already gotten 7 cuttings, some days they shoot up several inches. It's cool. Just figure what works and you'll get several times over the first bunch. Do more than one bunch, and they taste so much better than store bought. (03/14/2010)

By PamelaW

Tip: Growing Green Onions

Purchase one bunch of green onions, remove the bottoms with the root (about an inch of each stem). Use a pencil to poke the soil making a nice opening, and plant each green onion end. One package of 5 green onions will give you 5 hardy green onion plants.

Use scissors to clip off the top green part when you need the green onions to add to a recipe. This requires little care, just be careful not to trim it too close to the root. You will have a never-ending supply of green onions.

Source: Preston Cumberbatch from South America

By Twilightgift