I was out talking with my next door neighbor this afternoon. His little boys broke the tops off of the tallest plants and suddenly we could smell onions. Wally's garage was opened, so he got a shovel and we dug up what we discovered were the biggest green onions I've ever seen.
This is one that I bought last week at the store:
These are the ones we dug out of the flower bed this afternoon:
I think I'll look up a recipe for onion soup unless anyone knows something better to do with them! (Then, I'm going back to gardening school until I can tell the difference between all the plants.)
8 comments:
Whoa!
Yikes! Those are some giant scallions! How about making scallion pancakes?
Holy cannoli! Those are whoppers...you could chop 'em up and dry them for future use I suppose.
Laura- Scallion pancakes?! Are those for real? I'm not sure what my taste buds think about that. Erica did say they were kind of sweet when she took a bite, but I'm not sure we're talking the same tone of sweet as pancakes!
NatureGirl- never thought of drying them. That would be interesting.
Good laugh Shan! I can identify onions, but I can't say I've ever mixed them with bulbs and then still ID them. Isn't gardening fun and educational?
--Jenny
Jenny-
Things is, i didn't plant the daffodils, tulips or onions there. The flowers were there when we bought the house. I'm not sure where the onions came from!
We have tons of green onions that look like that because I don't replant them every year. I just snip them off when I need them and they keep coming back. Since they get those seedy flowers on them, I can believe that they planted themselves there via the wind, nice and cozy among the daffodils. That would be unexpected to find them in my flower bed, though!
Holy Cow! Those are huge. I am interested to find out what you do/did with them.
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