Growing onions for greens

Even an inexperienced vegetable grower can easily provide his family with fresh herbs by growing them on his windowsill or in the garden. Without much difficulty, you can get green onions and successfully add them to salads or fillings for pies.

You can start growing onions for greens already in winter if you simply place small onions in a container of water. You don’t need a lot of water, but it’s important to add it on time. It is recommended to place the onions in individual cups or in a common container, but placing them closer to each other. Soon you will be able to find numerous white roots at the base of the bulb, and its top will begin to split, from where fresh greens will be visible. As it actively grows, you can pinch off the outermost onion feathers and enjoy their freshness and juiciness.

You can also plant onions in large pots filled with an all-purpose soil mixture. But this method is more expensive in terms of finances and requires a lot of free space.

Growing onions for greens will be more effective if you select large and slightly sprouted bulbs and plant them in open ground. With this method, the greens will be more lush and larger, and they can be collected over a longer period of time.

You can also use seeds, but then it is best to sow them before winter or early spring. In this case, give preference to onion varieties that do not form an onion, but form a significant vegetative mass.

By the way, the feathers of green onions contain several times more vitamins and nutrients than the bulbs themselves.