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What to do with spring onions from last year

GoodyGoody Posts: 3
in Fruit & veg
Hello

i grew a bed of spring onions from seeds early last year. We ate quite a few of them in summer. 

Now a year later I still have a lot left and I’m wondering what are my options : can I eat them this summer in salads or will they taste horrible, or, do I pull them up and start again with seeds ?

Thanks

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2022
    Hello @iangoodfellow95 and welcome to the forum ... :)

    I would eat them now,asap,  in salads and cooked in any recipe that needs mild onions or a few chopped leeks, or in US receipes calling for scallions ... or chopped and added to buttery mashed potatoes as Irish Champ ... or chopped and added to soups and stews, or in this recipe which we enjoy as an accompaniment to chicken and fish dishes. 
    https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/braised-peas-with-spring-onions-and-lettuce/

    If you leave them in the ground they'll just get tough, bolt and form flowers and seeds.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GoodyGoody Posts: 3
    Many thanks for your advice, I will harvest some tomorrow morning

  • hatty123hatty123 Posts: 125
    I sowed some late last autumn, too late to develop properly before winter and I thought they'd died off. But they've grown back now and I tried a couple raw. Tasted great and a fantastic surprise early harvest 😁
  • GoodyGoody Posts: 3
    I have used about 20 over the last two days , I agree they taste lovely, only another 80 or so left !
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • pinutpinut Posts: 194
    Do a harvesting experiment.

    Leave a few to grow on and harvest only by the cut and come method instead of pulling up the spring onions.

    Just keep on chopping off and making use of the green. This prevents flowering and so the onion can not complete its lifecycle - after flowering, it sets seed and then it dies.


  • alexryzawlskiqBU-X4OFalexryzawlskiqBU-X4OF Posts: 163
    I remember last year I accidentally left a couple of mine and they started developing a more onion shaped bulb which tasted fine. I would just continue to eat them in the meantime. 
    Happy Gardening
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @Dovefromabove   That recipe is a little like Petits Pots à la Bonne Femme.  I just love a dish like that - even if it's just once a year!

    I have "spring" onions too @Goody that seem to have sprung up.  I use them in cooking in place of onions which are now rather expensive as it's not the season for local grown. I also eat them sprinkled with a little salt and pepper and .... a"lick" of butter - with bread - very delicious!! 
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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