Bulbs

[poliphilo]

 I'm told that while Europeans eat the whole of a salad onion (or scallion as we call 'em up North) Americans only eat the green stalk and leave the bulb to regrow. That way, I suppose, they get to have an everlasting onion. We like the idea. We're going to try it...

Something we did a month or two back was plant some garlic cloves. They've come on wonderfully. We dug one up the other day and used the bulb in cooking. It was absolutely tasteless. How disappointing. But yesterday I noticed that one of other garlics has produced a very showy orange flower and so isn't garlic at all but a lily or an iris or something along those lines. There is genuinely garlic in the tub but we put it in beside these bulbs that we'd already planted and it was one of the others we'd tried to eat. The leaves are very similar. Anyway we didn't poison ourselves- which is a mercy. 

Comments

[cmcmck]

Both parts pf a spring onion (as we call 'em down south) are tasty though!

Were they perhaps decorative garlic plants?

[poliphilo]

I don't think so. I stuck the garlic in a pot that was already planted with these lilies or irises or whatever. I'd forgotten they were there.....

[mallorys_camera]

Hmmmmmm.

I plant garlic in October (single clove) and harvest it in July (full head.)

Also, I totally eat the bulb part of the scallion. 😀

[poliphilo]

Yeah,

Thing is I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to gardening....

Several American friends have now told me that they eat the whole scallion so I think I must have been misinformed.....