Category Archives: Onions
Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”
Allium victorialis diversity
Brynhild Mørkved has over the years collected forms of Allium victorialis from over it’s range – the Alps, Caucasus, Japan and the Kola peninsula in North West Russia. The main reason has been to try and determine where the naturalised populations in the Lofoten Islands originate as this isn’t a native plant in Norway. I tell the story of the Lofoten victory onions in full in my book Around the World in 80 plants http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=30
Tonight’s veggies; 24th June 2015
Tall onions
My Persian shallots are in flower. Here they are:
More in these links:
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=357
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=893
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=1407
Also in flower and even taller is Allium rosenbachianum Album (unknown edibility):
A 230 onion pesto :)
Persian shallot seedlings!
So far so good, excellent germination outside of Persian shallot (Alium altissimum) – they had germinated some time ago and the young bulbs are already clearly visible. Planted out yesterday at different spacings to see how quickly they grow!
See also
Onion in escape attempt drama
Sometimes a letter addressed to me at 418 Malvikveien, gets delivered to my closest gardening neighbour Line Cathrin Ekseth at no. 481 ;-) This happened last week and I didn’t get round to collecting it before last night….and one of the onions was attempting to escape…..I was just in time :) Thanks Alan Carter, another chive cultivar for my reference collection, “Black Isle Blush” and it’s a real beauty, see here
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