Anyone grow these?

A co worker gave me some over 30 years ago, and that's what he called them...I never paid much attention to them and they went "wild"....Now I have a pretty large patch of them as they spread on their own, and I guess I should harvest some, these are small white bulbs, most info on them claim they're red or a blush color....
I'm going to try some this week, just curious if you garden folks use them and how....Thanks.

If the "walking onions" yes kept them at deer camp for
liver, heart, and preacher meat.
Had them years then a moron dug them ALL and gone.
Old woman gave me those.
I have not seen them before or aft.
Another camp up the hill kept wild garlic under
their apple trees. Great combo.

I never heard of them. Sounds good.

Egyptian onions (also called Egyptian walking onions, tree onions, or top-setting onions) are a unique perennial hybrid allium (Allium x proliferum). They get their name from their fascinating self-propagating habit: instead of producing flowers or standard seeds, they grow heavy clusters of small bulbs, known as "bulbils" or "sets," at the top of their stalks.

As the top-heavy clusters of bulbils mature in mid-to-late summer, their weight causes the main stalk to bend over toward the ground. When the small bulbils touch the soil, they root themselves and sprout into new plants. Over several years, this cycle repeats, causing the onions to seemingly "walk" or wander across a garden bed.

Flavor: They taste robust, falling somewhere between a standard yellow onion and a clove of garlic.Edibility: Every part of the plant is edible.The Greens: The hollow, dark green stalks can be harvested early in the spring and used just like scallions or chives.The Tops: The miniature top-set bulbs can be picked and used like pearl onions, peeled, fried, or pickled.The Bottoms: The plant also forms small, underground bulbs that can be harvested and cooked like shallots

Looks like you can buy them online and that you plant them in the Fall.

https://territorialseed.com/products/onion-egyptian-walking?variant=12786191106147

Egyptian onions are at least genetically half wild Welsh onions. They aren't from Egypt. Our ancestors grew them here by at least the 1700s. They were sold in catalogs since at least 1802. My uncle David started growing them in the early seventies. He gave me some to grow then too.

Facebook and Craigslist have many ads for them. I don't think their flavor is as good as some of the other varieties. It is nice to have onions that spread on their own.

Keith

They look like a great onion. They wouldn't be called winter onions as another name would they, or is that a different variety of onion??

Snowy look up day neutral onions might be what you're thinking,
or maybe not lol.

Tho the walkers did well in Northern Pa in the big woods thin soil.

Last Wednesday, I got about half a plastic, grocery store bag of free seed onions at a gas station near Erie, on the way back from fishing. I think they may be walking onions, but the skin seems light colored. I just prepped a bed for them, that was full of ants and ant eggs. I hit it with Sevin Dust and will plant when the ants stop swarming. A lot of the onions are clumped together. There was a huge box of them. I probably should have grabbed more, because they aren't in great shape and I doubt anyone else wanted them. They were and are a little moldy.

Here they are.



I just got them all planted.

Keith

I did do some research and Yes — Egyptian onion and winter onion are essentially the same plant, though they are also called by other names like tree onion and walking onion

We have them here and I planed some seed bulbs from the the tops of some years ago and they never came up. I did it at the ranch and have looked many times but never took. I may try again.

I have grown these for 30 years. They come back each year the same as the year before. They are very good early in the spring as a green onion. We use them a lot. When they get bulbs on the tops the stems get hard and they are like chewing a tree limb so they are not good in the summer. You can plant them anytime. They are hard to kill off. If you pull them out and toss them in a compost pile they keep growing there and them sprout form the roots you missed. We like them but switch to regular onions in the summer and winter because they are bigger and better. The spring is when they are the best. They taste like a regular onion and are some of the first things to grow in the spring so they are nice to have in the garden.

Winter onions is what we call them…and I see them in purple,white and yellow (bulbs on top). Last fall I planted 60 clusters in a raised double row to save the strain, and I will dig up the patch where those came from.

Yep that is what we call them here too. Winter onions. So, if you pull some to eat you always want to leave some for seed or do they self seed?

Snowy, it seems those onions would do well here in MT. I'd like to try those, never have heard of them.

My neighbor has them and I can have some plants so will give them a try again. They are real good in spring. The leaf's are great cut up in salad.

you will have to place some leaves over them to buffer the chinook waves of hot/cold hitting them.....if you can have rhubarb survive they will do well.

That sounds wonderful, snowy. I can use the whole plant in a variety of ways. I do with regular onions too.

N50, I can do that . Thank you.

I'll keep an eye out for those onions to buy.

We had them back in the 1950's , ate a lot of green onions from them in the spring.
Seems I could be wrong, but they produced green onions all summer.
They never produced bulbs for storage, so that might be why dad got rid of them.
As kids, always hungry, would eat them with bread and butter all the time.
LOL That was over 70 years ago.
LOL As farm kids, we were always hungry, and there wasn't a frog of fish that was safe from being cooked over a small fire, green apples either.
If it didn't eat us first, it was eaten.