[MomwithHope]

Hi all, had a cool down this week in west Michigan, actually had snow flurries 2 days. Almost lost my daffodils. Took a picture finally but they have looked better. I've got pictures iffen I can remember how to post them off photobucket.

My Egyptian walking onions. They go semi dormant in the winter. It's a wild patch, I call it my army, as they send out a lot of scouts. Patch is about 20 years old and I control the size by eating and digging up clumps that seed forward into the main garden bed. Behind it is a climbing rose bush 60+ years old, at our house for 31 years. Drain pipe to the left combines 2 gutter runoffs so it goes into the garden.

[MomwithHope]

My new compost bin with the first year of compost. It was more than it looks like on the tarp.

[Marcella]

“My Egyptian walking onions. They go semi dormant in the winter. It’s a wild patch, I call it my army, as they send out a lot of scouts.”

Looking at your picture of those onions, mine are farther along in their sci fi method of reproducing. The tops are now in that weird looking loop as they start that cycle. I think these onions are a throw back to the dinosaur age that refuse to die.

We had family here a week ago and they had never seen walking onions. I was glad the onions were in that cycle so they could understand how these onions “walk”.

They have to be among the strongest plants to weather winter with no damage.