“Evergreen Perennial onion”
Did you start them by using seed or plants? And they keep growing year after year? Now, that’s my kind of plant.
I bought some about 40 years ago at a small feed store, in Southern California; they were locally fairly common there/then, so thought nothing of leaving them behind when we moved to Oregon.
Never saw any again, until we bought our ‘temporary’ house in SD, where we lived on visits & then moved into full time, until the ranch house was ready to move into.
That house had 2 patches—one reds, and one yellows— of them in the yard, and having learned my lesson, we dug a couple of hundred, and planted them here.
Now a couple of neighbors have some started; and I sent a batch to Justadumbblonde a couple of years ago. She thought she had killed them, but I doubt she’s capable of that, unless she has a nuke squirreled away in a barn.
From (other) forum posts, they seem to be slightly more common in Britain. They do not flower, so do not produce seed; they only propagate by division.
Did you start them by using seed or plants? And they keep growing year after year? Now, that’s my kind of plant.
Have you ever thought about shallots? I brought some of those from the farm years ago. They are also called multiplier onions. My dad lost all his a few years later, so I reestablished from my crop.
I also gave some to my sister. She now has half a row in her garden. Same with my neighbor. He put on bunch in a pot and it stayed in there for over two years. Now he has a patch about 8X12 full of them.