If I plant these potatoes do you think they'll grow? How about the onion?
If I plant these potatoes do you think they'll grow? How about the onion?
The sprouting onion is probably sprouting a flowering stalk. If that’s the case all it will do is produce seed.
I think if you leave the onion in the ground after you collect the seed, it will produce small onion ‘sets’ that can be dug out, separated and planted for bulbs the next spring. If the onion is a hybrid, the seeds may not come out true and will not be useful to plant.
The potatoes, if they are just russets, should be able to be planted. You cut it into pieces, with one ‘eye’ or sprouting body, on each piece. Plant the pieces in mounds for easy harvest. Your county agricultural extension office is a great resource if you have question. If you have a land grant university in the area, they will also be a good resource.
This is all presuming you have a climate that can support growing root vegetables like these.
From the looks of your onion, it has already started to split, you will get 4 onions and a bloom spike.
It can be planted in the yard, or plant it in a pot and you will have lots of green leaves to use as green onions.
I have even planted the onion sets in pots and used the tops, as if you cut the leaves, you will get a smaller bulb on the onion, LOL, I then consider it a soup onion.
If when you use any onion in the home, leave an eighths to a quarter inch and plant the roots and it will also grow onions, so do the scallions.
I would plant the potato in an out of the way place that got a little shade and see what grows from it.
Some pots are treated and don’t grow more than what you see.