Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Juanita Reid" <goatrock@earthlink.net>]

I raise those walking onions, a.k.a. tree top onions, and also known as
Egyptian onions.  Mine have already fallen over and some have already
sprouted where they fell. A few of them will be replanted where I want
them.  They make good spring onions.
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Juanita Reid
goatrock@earthlink.net



> [Original Message]
> From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 9/18/2006 9:51:00 AM
> Subject: [Livingontheland] walking onions
>
>
> Curious who has these "walking onions". We're transplanting now, may sell
> plants by spring.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>
> http://www.gardenonions.com/
>  Catawissa Onion Our most popular Egyptian type onion.
> Catawissa Strain (1885) This strain of onion is the tallest of the
Egyptian
> onions we grow. believed to have originated near Catawissa, PA and is only
> a slight modification of the Egyptian tree onion. The "Vegetable Garden"
by
> Vilmorin-Andrieux first published in English in 1885 describes this
> American strain of onion. This variety can grow to over two and a half
feet
> in height. Because of the large diameter of the hollow green portion of
the
> plant, it is excellent for stuffing with cream cheese or other spreads.
> It's sets are reddish-brown and it has a unique habit of producing
top-sets
> out of the top-sets that develop on the plant, which in part accounts for
> the plants unusual height. It is extremely winter hardy and has been grown
> as far north as Alaska.
>
>
>
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