Growing Onions from Onions

Maybe I’m just lazy, but trying to find somewhere that sells seeds, or bulbs is more trouble than I’m prepared to go through to get started, let alone trying to sprout something myself. So most of the gardening or “growing” that I’m prepared to do has to be pretty simple…and it really doesn’t get more simple than this:

• Cut off the bottom of an (organic) onion (the rooty side) with about 2 inches of “meat”
• Let it dry out for a few days…
• Stick it root-side-down in a pot of soil (or the ground, whichever) and cover with about 2 inches of soil
• Water as needed
• Once it develops a few leaves, pull it out of the soil and remove the old onion scales
• Separate the plants as needed (more than one plant may develop from a single original root)
• Replant and trim leaves by about 2/3
• Harvest as green onions, or allow to mature fully

green onions, separated

I got my information here, btw.

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Green Thumb

So yesterday I showed you my basil cutting growing roots, as well as the pot I decorated here, but here they are together!

pot o' basil

Also, the pomegranate tree that I planted back in September 2009, finally has its first fruit!

Update: Benji is disgruntled that I did not give the others involved any credit for this pomegranate. My bad. Benji & I bought the pomegranate tree (really more like a bush) together, and subsequently had my dad arrange digging a hole and actually putting it in the ground.

perfect pomegranate

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