Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Beetie on March 09, 2013, 11:40
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Hi everyone.
Having clear some surface weeds and grass etc I've found a row of plants but I do t know what they are. They are clusters of bulbs that are sprouting. I wondered if they were some sort of onion that has been left. Being in a spaced row I think it is more likely a veg than flowers but I don't know.
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Could be chives. Mine, which get left in the ground and split when the clump gets too big, are starting to regrow and look rather like that at the moment.
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It looks like a clump of shallots that weren't harvested and have started to grow again ;)
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Possibly Welsh Onions ;)
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My first thought was chives but they look more oniony, like Mum says, probably shallots.
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I'd go with something "oniony" (do the leaves smell?)
Leaves look a bit thick for chives, and a bit old for shallots at this time of year - could it be something like "Walking onions" or Welsh onions (if you suspect I'm guessing wildly you are correct!) :unsure:
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My Welsh onions have not died down and the photo looks practically identical to my chive that have started to sprout.
They don't look a bit like my walking onions either!
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I've crushed and sniffed a leaf and it is definately smelling oniony. I dont think it chives as the leaves are more flat than round. I think they must be some sort of shallot.
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All the leaves on my chives are flat, its the stems that are round.
They do look like chives, there are lots of types.
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Out of interest, my chives. Notice the striking resemblance!
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/P1020166_zpsa86b3f58.jpg)
It's not broken glass, by the way - it's ice from the freezer!
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You are right they do look very much the same. I've dug a clump up and this is what one of the bulbs looks like.
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7 clumps in all. Think I'll split them and pot them up for now. I was planning on interplanting chives with carrots anyway so this is a good find amongst the weeds!!
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Out of interest, my chives. Notice the striking resemblance!
Thanks for taking a picture DD., I didn't have the wherewithal earlier... That looks almost exactly like my patch of chives.
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I went and had a look at my chives and the leaves look thinner and more cylindrical, that's why I said shallot ::) :D
Time will tell :lol:
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went and had a look at mine I still say welsh onion . :wub: