EGYPTIAN WALKING ONIONS | How to Use Them | PERENNIAL Food Source
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EGYPTIAN WALKING ONIONS | Perennial Food Source
These things are the BEST! The single best thing about these is that I can start eating them in April. My annual onions aren't even ready until July-Aug. So I'm eating these for 3-4 months before my annuals are ready.
My favourite! So glad you shared these with me 6 years ago! I have been sharing these with everyone 😊❤️
I live in the High Chihuahuan desert of New Mexico. I’m using these as a part of a soil regeneration program on my desert property. They do very well.
Hello my friend! That sounds very interesting. Good luck 🙂
They grow these on farms in the Nile Delta too. They're so good when grown organically in very hot weather.
Someone put some in a basket to give away at a small thrift store in our small town, they were very dried up and I wandered if they would grow. I put them in a cup with starter soil under my grow lights and they are growing! I am excited to have them after watching your video, thank you for all the good info!
Good morning! That is amazing! These onions are truly a miracle the way they survive everything! Happy Gardening 🙂
Can I get a few from one of you folks. Heard abt them on Holler Homestead. Just creating a 1st time garden in Missouri after many, many years married, moving & growing old together?@GardeningintheNorth
Great video, and agreed on just leaving them alone. I started with 12 bubils several years ago, and every year I get more and more onions from just replanting the bulbils and basically ignore them. And they are so tasty, a cross between garlic and onion.
Thank you so much. Mine are starting to produce the bubils, so I plan on planting them all over 😁
This is a wonderful video--thank you! I've been growing Egyptian walking onions for 24 years now and you are right, they take absolutely NO work to grow. I pull them from early spring through late fall. Sometimes they are like spring onions and at other times they serve as slicers. The flavor is phenomenal, too. I've given away countless of the little bulblets and now loads of my family and friends are growing them!
Thank you, my friend! If there was one thing I could suggest to every gardener, it would be EgyptianWalkingOnions! I still have 2 packs of sliced EWO's in my freezer for soups, Fajitas and so much more! Happy Gardening!
We bought a property and apparently someone put some in our deainage ditch and i just harvested like 3lbs to the transplant ( saved the root systems 😊) after our pond drues a little from the flooding we are putting them around it. The bulbs are still nickel sized so hopefully they like their new nin toxic home and the next generation is safe.
3lbs!! That's awesome news! They will do awesome. I brought some from our old house to our new one and basically put them in a brand new raised bed and walked away for the winter..... they are growing so good. Already over a foot tall! Good luck!
You can eat all of it. The green as a spring onion, young ones as scallions, we use the entire plant
Yes! I use the whole onion too. It provides all an onion source all season!
I pulled some little bulbs off, dried them and put it a paper bag, in spring they started to grow and got moldy, I tossed them into the garden as a compost type thing, and I now have over 100 walking onion plants growing, these are crazy resilient ❤them!
OMG! That's a great story! This is why I love these onions.
How deep did you plant the bulbs that didn't have any green sprout on it?
@@MyBarbara90 I honestly don't think it will matter... these onions are like the super heroes of onions (invincible). But for reference, I just push them down under the soil and cover up the top so you can't see them. Maybe 1/2"-1" of soil on top so that rain won't wash over and expose them. But, they literally grow from the top of the ground naturally as well.
Hey there! Thank you so much for your walking onion videos! I've ordered some bulbs/bulblets and can't wait for them to arrive!
That’s awesome news! Happy Gardening
Where did you find them?
They were gifted to me by my brother in law.
@@user-jq2ny7gd2h I ordered from etsy
Where did you find them?
I call these crazy Crack onions... cuz I found some growing in the cracks of the sidewalk... they will grow anywhere and everywhere... 🤪
I love that you call them this!
Thank you for all the information 💚
A friend gave me about 10 of them. I didn’t know what I had,
Until I watch your video. Thank you so much for sharing. 💚
You were given an amazing gift that will grow every year!!! I'm excited for you. Propagate and share with others 🙂 ❤️
So happy to have found your CZcams. I was gifted some bulbs and hoped to find out how to use them.
Welcome!! What a wonderful gift to get! 🙂
Love your energy! And the info was great too
Ah, thank you so much 🙂
I have grown these for years. I have given away wheelbarrows full. I started with 6 onions. I have even had to succumb to throwing them in the trash heap for the dump because they would just keep growing in my compost pile. I also dehydrate them. They make amazing onion powder. I do this in the spring and use the entire onion. Once they go to seed the white part gets hard and woody. Last years eventually die and the new ones are what multiply for the next spring. Thanks for the great video.
I too started with a handful as a gift. A generous gift that I did not know the value of at the time. They really can survive anything, lol My onion powder is getting low! With so many new bulbs, I’m going to pull 100 to make powder and replant them for the new owners! Thank you for reminding me of another reason why these are truly the best! ❤️😊
Alliums in general are notoriously hardy - you can cut the top 90% off a grocery store onion that's in eating condition (as long as it has not been botrytized) and plant the butt end in water or any moist soil and it will just chooch (I'm doing this right now, mostly as a way to not feel like a failure as a gardener).
I don't think an onion of any kind has ever been shown to grow from a suitably pulverized root piece, although one gardening youtuber has successfully grown a green onion that he'd inadvertently severed what he thought was a root collar on.
So how do y'all make your onion powder. Just dry in dehydrator and grind into powder @@GardeningintheNorth
@frickn61 you're so lucky to have this many. Is there anyway you'd consider sharing with a fellow gardener?
GREAT video! I just ordered some after watching this! I live in Florida so wish me luck!
Hello! That's awesome news!!! In a year, you will be gifting them to your friends and family!
Thanks for the video! I do have to say, I've planted the onion 'sets' that were stored as much as 8 months in an unheated garage (US zone 5) and they grew just fine. I also plant some of the smaller sets in late fall and let them overwinter, giving me a nice crop of spring onions very early in spring. Always the first fresh veggies from the garden. For the past 2 years I've planted enough of these onions in the fall to give a goodly amount to the local food pantry in spring. These onions are very versatile and really are in the 'FREE FOOD FOREVER' category.
I love hearing that people are growing these onions as well as the experience you've had! I plant all season long, but I love that you plant yours in the fall to then donate them ❤️
I Just started growing them this year, and they seem to be doing really well. I got them planted probably late spring. when do you think I can expect them to grow the bulbs on top? At the moment they are just growing new shoots. I water mine everyday though. Just enough to get the soil moist. My property has really dry/hard soil that I've been working on to try and soften it all up. (I live in zone 6b-7a)
@@shaunrasmussen5886 The amount of time they take to top out depends on the weather - like many plants, they respond to stress by reproducing. The onions I planted in October had top sets forming when I was picking strawberries in June, but that included overwintering, about three months dormant. I think you will see top sets in September or October.
@@kensimmons9960 Thanks for the info! So for next year, I can plant the bulbs in fall and they will be ok for next year? If they produce late fall, would it still be ok to plant them? or do I need to make sure there is enough time before frost hits?
@@shaunrasmussen5886. You might be over watering. Id cut back on the daily watering.
My kids used to pick all parts of them to snack on. They were growing in full sun at that time, but as a tree near them grew taller, they died out. I just planted seeds last year, and now I have them all over my garden. I love them. So interesting. Sometimes I just pick small shoots for salad dressings or marinades. The top bulbs(lets) taste like garlic
I'm so glad you have them again! Thank you for sharing with me 🙂
Great video! Love it.
Thanks so much!
Walking onions are amazing . We make onion / potato soup with them. So delicious fast and easy to make right from the garden.
You have a great crop there Sherry. Yes plant them at the new place.
Also good in grill cheese sandwiches.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos.❤❤
Grilled cheese! I didn’t even think of that!!! Yum ❤️😊
Amazing onion I have had then for 10 years. In zone 7b I plant bulbs in September. Then in May or June they reproduce I pull of the bulbs and never eat all your sets. Then replant bulbs in September it’s a cycle.
So 12 months out of the year I have onions in my garden.
I agree, amazing onions! I've pickled the little bulbs, yum! We use them on salad or just as an extra on our dinner plate. Enjoy my friend
These things survive winter in midwest year after year without any special mulch or protection. Temps drow below 0F, the bulbs are one inch deep.
This is why I love these onions and recommend that everyone grow them!
9:18 the grandchild is just starting to erupt while still attached to the grandparent... three generations all stuck together like that. o_O
Love this!
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They are fun to watch..i also grow these. I also sell them and teach people's bout them
That’s great news!
Thank you! I’ve grown these for years, but you’ve given me so many new tips! What a great video, you’re lovely. ❤ 🇦🇺
That's awesome to hear! Thank you so much ❤️
I have never heard of those! Great information!
You will love them!!
Really enjoyed your video
Thank you so much ❤️
I've been growing them for yrs. Never thought of pickling them!
You will love them!
I'd love to know the pickling recipe. Any chance you might do a video on it? 😀
Hello! I did a video last year on pickling them! Everyone loves them. Our favourite way to use the pickled onions was in our salad. 😋
Hello from my homestead in northwest Florida! I grow walking onions too but only just started last year and I was looking up more info on them and your channel popped up. I'm so glad to see your video beings that you are sooooo far north and growing them successfully. I have family in the northern states near the Canadian border but my folks chose to migrate to the southern states before I was born. We traveled north to visit family when I was a child. I do love visiting but not sure I could take the brutal winters you all live through up there. We had 15 Fahrenheit in January and it wasn't a pretty site with busted water lines and dead crops. I didn't have my wood-burner installed yet wither so small electric heaters were not efficient and very expensive to run. Those arctic blasts are not welcome but I intend to be better prepared next winter!
Hello my friend! Yes, we normally have very cold winters, however I’m not sure what is going on this year. It was very warm yesterday. 10 degrees rather than in the minus.I’m so glad you have started walking onions, you will love them!! Happy Gardening!
Mine never get that big by june, and I'm in Oklahoma. I guess I just have a smaller variety.
I just searched this. I didn't realize there were different variations of Egyptian walking onion plants. Some plants form long, twisting branches and very few topsets, while others produce large clusters of topsets and no branches. Some plants grow only 2 topsets and others will grow 30! You should try to get your hands on more to see the difference. Do you live in Canada?
I'm new to gardening and I'm still a bit disorganised. I'm really excited to grow walking onions so I can pick them as I need. Just waiting for them to come into season down here in Australia when the shops start selling them.
Hello! For me, I am a list maker. It's the only way I can stay on track! It actually relaxes me knowing that the task is on the list, even if it isn't done.
I'm excited for you to start growing EWO!
Happy Gardening my friend
Just found your video Thank You! so much for all this great information. You have answered all my questions. Mine have been growing in a pot and doing great. Ready to move to the ground, when would it be a good time to move them. I live in zone 8
You are Welcome! 😀 if they were mine, I would be using the greens like you would with chives, (don't take them all) when they grow the little onions, take those and plant them in the ground where you want them. At the end of the summer, pull the onions from the pot and use the onion bulbs for cooking.
I just ordered some EWOs (Egyptian Walking Onions) and have several locations plus a neighbor to plant these 25 bulbs. Excited and yet, this is Texas so it may be that these MIGHT possibly require SOME water during a drought! But, considering all the watering I did this summer, these should be easy! 😊
I'm excited for you!!! I still have air tight bags of sliced EWO in my freezer from when I pulled roughly 100 of them. Happy gardening my friend!
mmm.. the fresh bulbils note may explain why I have had minimal, if any, success with these. I think the bulbils have been too dried out :(
I hope you have better luck, my friend!
Just ordered some off Etsy
Awesome! Now you can grow and share!
Excellent... Seed swap perhaps?
Thank you 🙂 Maybe!
could you share the pickled onion recipe please? I have then and want to learn more about have to use them !!
Hello! I did a video on how I pickled them. The title is Pickled Egyptian Walking Onions | Pub-Style | Perennial Food Source.
The recipe is in the description notes.
You will love them on salad!
Great informational video.
The ones you planted towards the end of the video, have they set root yet? It would be lovely to see an update!
Thank you.
We don't live at that house anymore, but I can tell you from past experience that the new owners will start to see growth in a few weeks!
On a side note! I just made tomato soup with Egyptian walking onions and tomatoes from the 2023 garden season 😋
@@GardeningintheNorth ooh that sounds really nice! Currently growing it from bulbils and are starting to come on nicely, do you think you will cultivate it where you are now?
YES! I brought a 100 with me and planted them in a garden bed until I plan out the yard better. You will love that you can use them at all stages of growth!
@@GardeningintheNorththank you for your responses ❤
I just have 1 more question if that’s okay, are these onions cut and come again? Excluding the bulbils, if I cut a established plant to the ground will it return from the same root/crown? Also do they go dormant over winter then return, as new leaves same crown?
Thanks very much😊
@@rockrobster04 Of course! Yes, if you cut one down, but leave the original bulb in the ground, it will grow again the following year. When the plant is young, you will see that the green onions are soft, but as it matures over the summer, they become very tough and I wouldn’t use them. I’ve made onion powder from them, but it wasn’t my favourite. There are parts of the onion that are good at different times of the season. Late spring / early summer - I use the greens like onion chives, but I never take all the greens from one plant, only a 1/3. This way, all my plants will produce bulbils. Summer - I start taking the bulbils and planting or sharing them. But I don’t take them all. End of summer - I pull the entire onion (ones I’ve had for 2 years) and drop a bulbils in the hole for the following season. I then take the onions I’ve just pulled and cut all the hard greens off, so I just have the onion bulb that was in the ground. I let them dry like a regular onion, then I put them through my food processor to slice them, then bag them and into the freezer they go in portion sizes for meals. I only have 2 bags left 😭. One year I had so many of the little onions, I pickled them for salads, yum! Every year, the tall hard green stocks die back on the plant. I leave them there until the following season. In April when I start preparing the garden, I remove all the brown dried out stocks, and usually that’s when I start to see some greenery!
We're moving 1200 miles away early August in the upper Midwest, USA, , how do you recommended we take some along?
Why are my walking onions limpy, and it did not flower last summer. It's winter in Australia now. They are still green floppy but healthy.
Mine rarely grow a flower. Just the tiny onion bulbs. Have you been over watering?
Since you've planted them in a raised bed now, obviously many are going to "walk" or fall out of the bed. What are your plans for those? I tried these a few years ago and was amazed how prolific they were. Thanks for the vid!
I have so many plans! My original plan was to plant them all along 3 sides of my property, (in a food forest strip), but the final grading hasn’t been done yet. As a temporary plan (in order to make sure I have some for next year) I planted them in the raised bed and a few containers. Having said that, I don’t care if they “walk” off 2 of the 4 sides… I love organized chaos, lol. You are so right, these are so prolific! ❤️😊
I always let my bubils dry out and they usually come up just fine when I plant them.
That’s very interesting! I haven’t had that luck 🙁
I did the same and they're growing great!
I have a question! I planted EWO this spring and I have two that have the sets. I plan on pulling off the sets this fall (I'm in Colorado) and planting. My question is: What happens then to the plant that had the sets on it? Will it create new sets next year? Also, the sets have sprouted and have long green "onions" and then flowers on the ends. Is that ok? If I leave the sets attached for now, will it die since it has a flower on it? Sorry for so many questions! I'm obsessed with this plant and so want it to succeed! Thank you!
Hello, my gardening friend 🙂 you can pull them off now! I would plant them now and treat them like any other onion you've planted to start. The green part of the onion will eventually turn yellow and die back, BUT I will return the next year! If you want more onions, plant the little onions in another location. If not, pull the big onion and throw a small one in the hole. It's ok to leave them on the onion, but if you have time, then I would do it now. I've seen a few of the flowers you mentioned, but i've never worried about the flower because I have over a hundred of these planted everywhere. Plant them now and get more onion sets this year to plant more! I hope this helps, I happy to answer any questions 🙂
Thank you for sharing this information with us. Do you sell them?
Hello, thank you for watching. I give so many away! Everyone needs these!!
@@GardeningintheNorth did you order on line somewhere. I have looked for them and can't find any. I live in Tennessee I wonder if my weather would affect them. The big box stores here don't have them. I went to Lowes and home Depot. The local stores here don't know what they are.
They were originally given to me. I just keep planting them to grow more. I wish you lived closer, I would mail you some. Try looking online in gardening groups on Facebook or even marketplace.
@@GardeningintheNorth thank you again and I truly enjoy your videos.
Thank you for this wonderful information. I keep reading that these needs to be planted in the Fall. Is it possible to plant them in early Spring and harvest them in the Fall? Thank you for any information you can provide here.
Hello! Here in Ontario, Canada, they pop up early spring, and we use the greens in everything. As soon as they grow the mini onions, I start planting those and harvesting all summer. This year, due to moving, I had to plant them in the fall. I've never done that before, so it will be interesting to see what happens!
@@GardeningintheNorth Thank you so much for your quick reply on this old video. We just moved and I am now starting from scratch with the need to chock out Zoysia grass to start a garden, but I was born to garden in the wilds of B.C. mountains. Here in Massachusetts, the earth is tough to work with due to all the boulders and clay, but I can do anything that the I put my mind to. Thank you and God bless you.
We just started from scratch as well! We got our old place, (where most of my videos are taken) just perfect and then got the itch to move, lol. My garden plan has me starting over 700 seedlings 🤣. You’ve got this! Make a list of all your garden desires and then slowly work the list. Happy Gardening!
@@GardeningintheNorth WOW, that is a lot of seedlings.
Thank you for your suggestion on planning the garden and proceeding in steps. I tend to tear into projects and exhaust myself with completing it. This is a project that is so enormous that my husband wants to use Home Depot raised aluminum units.
If it's going to be raised gardens then I prefer timber from all the forest that surrounds our property.
Oh the thrill of planning a garden when you are well into your 60s. Just think, I have lots of experience behind me and grateful for that.
Thank you and God Bless for all the guidance you provide here.
Do you all like the red or white walking onion? What's the difference between the two? Thank you and Merry Christmas
Hello my friend! The Egyptian Walking Onions are a bit of a mix of red and white. The bulbs tend to have a bit of red and a bit of green, but the main colour is white. I haven't found a Walking onion that was just white or just red.
Where did you get yours?
Thanks for watching, and Merry Christmas!
I just seen them on the Baker Creek Heirloom seed company and looked them up on you tube and found your channel Sherry. They talk about white, and red on their site. I haven't grown either yet. Sounds like the white one is sweeter than the red catawissa from Pennsylvania
When you plant the bulbs, do you put the whole baby onion bulb into the ground, and just leave the green tips out? I got some yesterday, and they only have the roots under the soil, and the onion bulb is above the soil
Hello! That's great news! When I plant them, I cover the bulb and leave the nice new green onion stalks above. I've been doing this for years and have always had great success. Good luck!
@@GardeningintheNorth thank you!!!!
At least pee on them in the dark. Just say'n. 😄 3:30
How about just storing in ground and harvesting as needed?
That's the least I could do 🤣
Do they last winter cuz i have snow where im at
Hello! I’m in zone 5b and they have always survived. They “die back” but in April / May you will see new growth!
Where can we get our first bulbs? I’m in Ontario.
Hello! I've never seen them for sale anywhere, but I've never looked either. Mine where gifted to me. Send me a message on fb and I can reach out in July if I have some extras. 🙂
I saw Egyptian Walking Onion sets for sale on the Walmart app. I didn't know what EWO's were so I Googled it & found this post. Now you know EVERYTHING that I know about them. Happy planting.
Your said u pickle them? U mean the little onion sets from the tops?
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YES! They were awesome. This link is a video I did on making them.
When is the best time to start them?
Hello! These onions can be started anytime. If you can get your hands on some, plant them now so that you can grow the small onion bulbs and plant more!
@@GardeningintheNorth thanks for responding, just made an order for some:) & subscribed to you.
Do they still have Schooner beer?
Hello!! I've never heard of that, but that doesn't mean much considering I don't really drink beer 😁
@@GardeningintheNorth When I was in Nova Scotia in 1974 I had some and thought it was
excellent. Canadian beer is delicious, healthful and pure. Try some!
My husband’s family is from Nova Scotia, I’m going to ask him about that beer.
Do you sell these onions?
I was, but I've recently moved and need to rebuild my onion patch!
Hi, can I buy 5 bulbils of egyptian walking onions? From you? We dont have that in the Philippines...
Hello! Reach back out to me in June when they start producing the new bulbs. 🙂
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