We were still making that Herman Apple friendship cake up to a couple of years ago, it’s absolutely gorgeous, wish someone would start it up again now.
As for fiddling about with bits of chopped onion, why not just buy a 99p packet of seeds and grow a long row of the things, plait them up, they’ll last all winter.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Use the tops of some fresh ones, and leave about four inches of stem above the roots. Do not peel off any of the bottom layers. Use your finger to make some holes in a pot of moist compost, pop them in about an inch or two deep.. then water them in. Let the top of the soil dry out a bit between watering, but make sure when you stick your finger into the soil near the end that it is damp under the surface. In the late spring I often just take the ends off the cutting board and pop them direct out into the garden soil to gradually form a short row. They grow just fine as long as a few roots are visible. A few die off, but most survive and produce heavily.
do you reccomend cutting the old roots befor? or if they are white i should just leave them?
No, leave the roots on. The old roots should be fleshy. If they are already dry when you buy the plant, you won't have any luck. The whole root crown should be healthy and fresh.
I don’t get it ... if you leave the bottom four inches of the spring onion what are you eating ... just the green?
And if you then grow another onion are you eating just the green leaves again?
Why not just grow a pot of chives? Lots of tasty green foliage that regrows every time you cut it.
@Dovefromabove I use them as 'cut and come again' spring onions. Just eating the green leaves. The mature ones get a bit tough later in the season, but the fresh middle ones are lovely. I don't really care for the taste of chives.. I used to grow it for the bees, but the couch grass took over the patch and it was impossibly to weed out.. so I took them out this spring. The couch grass was using it as a base for invading the rest of the bed.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As for fiddling about with bits of chopped onion, why not just buy a 99p packet of seeds and grow a long row of the things, plait them up, they’ll last all winter.