Backyard Aquaponics
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Perpetual Green Onions?
I think you can eat the same green onion for ever!
I bought a bunch of green onions from the grocery store, The wife cut them up for salads and cooking. She gave me the ends where the roots are. I planted one and it is growing like crazy. I planted it a week ago and it is already 8" tall. I decided to plant the rest.
I guess I can eat it, cur the end and plant it and so on, and so on.
I guess the onion will live as long as me, if I keep replanting it.
Now I planted it in the gravel of my aquaponics garden.

Its a fact. I havent planted my dirt garden in 3 years and have been mowing over it. The row of green onions never died! They do go dormant usually in the hottest months and come back with vigor when it cools off!

we call em spring onions over here

Ive got huge ones , they love AP

Im tempted to pull some out and eat the roots as normal onions , the leaves are almost 2 foot long and some are now an inch thick

flavour doesnt change the bigger they get , as far as I can tell .
I just cut off the bottom-most leaf / leaves and let the rest grow for later . As they get bigger the bottom leaves ( oldest / biggest ) tend to get too heavy and pull off the main stem anyway

My spring onions grew into massive bulbs...

we've got a few different varieties in, spring onions, and welsh onions and others, they all grow really well

I prefer green onions because they never die and they grow fast! Unlike regular onions they are ready to start harvesting in just a few weeks. After a while if they are not packed to close together they also make a nice bulb. Mine just went to seed so I have tons of seed.

Like you, I got mine last year from the store, cut off the tops and planted the root ends. I harvested the tops five times- the tops kept growing back and the root ends got larger. I lost track of cutting them and most died back to bulbs but one decided to go to seed- a two year old green onion plant fed only AP water and mostly just regular water to keep it from dying and all in a regular plastic drinking cup. Some plants have a will to survive.

I bet even my wife would have a hard time killing them!