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    From T@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 4 19:13:24 2024
    Hi All,

    My over winter onions are now four inches tall.

    Problem: my neighbor's trees are shedding their
    leaved for fall. My onions starts are somewhat
    covered in leaves.

    I have heard that mulch helps protect over winter
    onions. Will leaves do the same thing or do I
    need to clean them out?

    Many thanks,
    -T

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Nov 6 21:22:08 2024
    On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 19:13:24 -0800, T <[email protected]d> wrote:

    I have heard that mulch helps protect over winter
    onions. Will leaves do the same thing or do I
    need to clean them out?

    I'm ignoring the leaves caught in my winter onions (a.k.a. topping
    onions, walking onions, and egyptian onions) except when I find time
    to pull the weeds, or harvest scallions.

    I've recently learned that winter onions can be harvested all year.
    When the spring scallions give out I can use the bulbils, when the
    bulbils get tough, there are bulbs at the base, and when the bulbs
    sprout, there is a fall crop of scallions. And the bulbs remain good
    for a long time after they sprout, shrivelling from the top down and
    outside in instead of rotting.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Fri Nov 8 02:00:38 2024
    On 11/6/24 18:22, Joy Beeson wrote:
    On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 19:13:24 -0800, T <[email protected]d> wrote:

    I have heard that mulch helps protect over winter
    onions. Will leaves do the same thing or do I
    need to clean them out?

    I'm ignoring the leaves caught in my winter onions (a.k.a. topping
    onions, walking onions, and egyptian onions) except when I find time
    to pull the weeds, or harvest scallions.

    I've recently learned that winter onions can be harvested all year.
    When the spring scallions give out I can use the bulbils, when the
    bulbils get tough, there are bulbs at the base, and when the bulbs
    sprout, there is a fall crop of scallions. And the bulbs remain good
    for a long time after they sprout, shrivelling from the top down and
    outside in instead of rotting.


    Thank you!

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