Walking onions: You said, “Should all the green remain?”
Unless there is a green, a new onion doesn’t grow. If you have gobs of greens, then it doesn’t matter to eat some, however, if you are just starting and have only a few greens, leave them to grow more onions.
I have ten of them up now and four have greens about six inches tall. I won’t touch the greens or eat any onions from that patch until next year when they have had a chance to “walk” and produce more onions.
The wild ones we have are small, but a powerhouse in nutrition. It’s hard to describe their taste, it is good, but a little goes a long way.
When ripe they feel like a little bag of jelly. They have rather big seeds, which I have read can be roasted and used as a coffee substitute.
But man, if you get one that is not ripe. Oh wow! Talk about pucker power. The sourest dill pickle you ever ate, can not hold a candle to the pucker you get from an unripe persimmon.
It’s truly God’s gift-we didn’t plant the tree, it just sprang up and grew. It’s a native plant. It produces fruit year after year. We don’t mess with it at all. Afraid we’ll screw it up.LOL