Did you know that you can take the ends of store bought green onions and plant them in a little soil or water, to regrow them for future eating? It happens so quick too! In just a few days, those little white roots start sending up new green shoots, and suddenly you’ve got yourself a new supply of scallions for soups, stir-fries, baked potato toppings and more! I recently did this with mine, by planting them in soil and keeping them in a pot on the kitchen counter... they are growing wild!
But I am curious what happens if I don’t keep cutting the green onions down. So I had to look into this and thought I'd share.
Apparently if you stop harvesting the greens, your onion plants will keep maturing. I thought they would eventually grow too tall, fall over, and die. But actually after some time, they’ll send up a tall flower stalk topped with a beautiful round ball of tiny white blossoms. At that point, the plant’s energy goes into making seeds. Then those seeds can be saved and planted, so you can start fresh onions from scratch! I will have to try that, but first, I need to harvest them for dinner haha.
*A Few Tips to Keep the Harvest Going:
- Snip the greens about an inch above the base and they’ll regrow.
- Keep the soil moist but not soggy, and give them plenty of sunlight.
- After a few rounds of cutting, the greens may get thinner. When that happens, it's time to plant a new batch from store bought onions, or seeds you've harvested from the first batch.
It's so fun to have a little indoor garden, that you can keep all year round!
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