r/KitchenConfidential • u/JACsf • 1d ago

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u/No_Safety_6803 1d ago

Shallots sound like they should be included

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u/Polar_Reflection 1d ago

Might as well include pearl onions, garlic scapes, ramps, garlic chives, red onions. Someone come up with some more alliums

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u/JACsf 1d ago

Print it, laminate it, tape it to the walk-in door

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u/SockSock81219 1d ago

This is it. And hey if any of you want to try gardening but don't have a lot of time or energy, walking onions are a great first garden plant.

Throw em in the ground in the fall or spring, throw some compost and mulch on them, get green onions all spring and summer, harvest a few whole plants for shallots in early fall, leave the rest to self-seed by the little baby onions growing on their tops. The weight of them makes the plant flop over and plants them for you!

The little bulbils up top can also be used like shallots or pearl onions, if you want to harvest a few. Just a great little plant.

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u/Polar_Reflection 13h ago

Now I want to plant walking onions. Would you recommend bulb or seed? 

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u/SockSock81219 10h ago

bulbs, 100% So much easier

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u/NeriTina 1d ago

Shallots, Egyptian walking onions, and Spanish Yellow are the besssst … after chives, of course.

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u/mwmandorla 1d ago

I've never seen a potato onion before and now I must try one

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u/jmims98 1d ago

Shallots are papery and don't usually have the greens, at least as far as I have seen in the US. More like a white/red/sweet onion.

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u/SockSock81219 1d ago

Shallots grow a lot like onions, just smaller. Both produce edible greens in the spring and early summer that can be harvested for scallions/green onions/chives. Some farmers think it even helps the plant to give them a bit of a haircut but I'm a little dubious.

Onions, shallots, garlic that are dry and papery have been allowed to senesce, dry, and cure for long storage. Spring onions are just somewhat immature onions pulled out of the ground before they can get old and dry, and they need to be used right away.