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Post by ottawagardener on Dec 12, 2012 16:30:01 GMT -5
I rather like nodding onion: A. cernuum. Anyone else?
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Post by diane on Dec 12, 2012 17:26:11 GMT -5
Yes, I like A cernuum. I just use the flowers, though, so the plants live a very long time in my garden.
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 12, 2012 17:30:55 GMT -5
I rather like nodding onion: A. cernuum. Anyone else? Only got my seed for that this season (so it will be next season at the earliest I can render an opinion). I am sort of fond of my little wild garlic/ onion, which I assume is A.canadense (though apparantly a non-flowering/bulbil only version, at least here) for it's flavor (though I am not crazy about how slowly it muliplies) I suppose the rakkyo ( A.chinese) would be pernennial if I left some of the bulbs in the ground from one year to the next. Beyond that, I really have no experiance. The only native allium we have around here is A. vineale and NOTHING could make me really love that. |
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Post by raymondo on Dec 12, 2012 21:51:40 GMT -5
I have A. cernuum in the garden but they are still tiny. I'm really hoping they'll perennialize. I've read that the bulb has a very strong taste. Is that the case?
I have a mulitplier green onion that does well. Not strictly perennial I guess but I've always got some. I suppose also that the topset onions are in that same category.
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Post by MikeH on Dec 12, 2012 23:07:04 GMT -5
We really like Allium fistulosum. Very much like a spring onion even well into the summer.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 13, 2012 6:38:36 GMT -5
I don't have any perennial Alliums yet other than potato onion, but I was recently looking at this place and got covetous. heirloomonions.com/There are several vendors at market that bring ramps in the spring, I've meant to buy some of the ones with roots on and try moving them into our woods which are rampless. |
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Post by MikeH on Dec 13, 2012 7:31:10 GMT -5
Yeh, our wood aka Nature-slowly-taking-back-the-agricultural-void-that-was created-40 to 50-years-ago has a pretty barren floor. One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that wild plants often do poorly when planted into a seemingly wild environment. I never really knew why but now I have a theory. In their environment which could include a nursery pot where they've been sitting for a number of years, they develop a bacterial/mycorrhizal root system. When planted into the wild, these systems have to compete with and adjust to whatever bacterial/mycorrhizal systems are there. If there isn't enough mass on the roots and they aren't planted with enough soil containing their bacterial/mycorrhizal systems, they won't survive. So we have raised growing beds filled with compost soil where we multiply what we want to plant in the woods - Allium cernuum, Allium tricoccum, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Asarum canadense, Arisaema triphyllum, Allium tricoccum. These plants take quite a while to establish themselves in raised beds, often years. Sometimes, they have to be replanted because they fail. Last year, we transplanted out a few Ostrich ferns and this year we will transplant out some nodding onions. We'll fill the holes with compost soil and inoculate it with a bit of soil from growing bed. Hopefully, whatever beneficial bacteria and fungi are in the growing bed soil will multiply and the plant will establish itself before the roots make contact with the surrounding soil. And we'll mark where they are planted so that we can find them the following year.
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Post by ottawagardener on Dec 13, 2012 8:06:18 GMT -5
Ooo: book marked.
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 13, 2012 11:21:07 GMT -5
Gee, I want that Naples Onion!
Anyone have it?
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