Happy Friday: Growing Green Onions
Sent from reader, Holly:
Hi Collin! I’ve been so into couponing & deal hunting ever since I found your blog. You’re letting us save so much $$ and even my husband is couponing now. We decided to save even more by growing our own veggies/herbs. One of them, green onion, is super easy and fun.
I just cut the roots off of the store bought green onions and then either let the bottoms sit in water or plant them in soil. They don’t need much attention and keep growing everyday even in sudden cold weather. It’s really nice to be able to get my own veggies from my own garden without having to run to the store.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
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Fun! My kids will like this. Thanks for the tip:)
I do that with celery it grows back, i just keep it in water on my kitchen counter. Last year we planted red banana peppers or our balcony, it was crazy how many we had. No one of our friends could believe their eyes, because we live in an apartment and have no yard, just small balcony.
Really?!?! SO cool I’m googling now…thanks Collin and readers 😍 we do a garden every year but the last few the deer and other wildlife have literally stolen the majority…trying to find ways to keep them safe this year. The first year we had so many tomatoes we sold them and made a great amount of spending cash!
Deer fencing. Works wonders. I just got some big stakes and wrapped the fencing around them (it was flexible plastic) and made myself a “door” into my garden by hooking the fencing overlapping on the top of one of the stakes. Worth the investment to not lose everything to the deer.
To save money, I cut my husband and kids hair myself. I spread the clippings around the garden to help keep deer out – they don’t like the smell of humans. Sounds Bazaar, I know!
I believe when you place Irish spring Soap the smell of it keeps the deer away maybe you give it a try. Safe, less work and inexpensive ☺. Let us know the feedback if you give it a try.
I tried the Irish spring around my Hostas last year, cause the deer eat them off to the ground!! Sadly, they continued to eat it, and I slide a small slice under each leave and they still ate them up. Far as our garden goes, rabbit & deer are both crazy for fresh veggies. I have tried marigolds, nasturtium, you name it and I tried it. Needless to say i ended up putting field fence around the garden a few years ago. And I have found the cost was worth it. After all the cash spent starting veggies & fruit from seed, only to have them eaten by the wildlife, the cost was totally worth it! And it will last for decades!!
Make sure it’s a tall fence! The deer jumped right over ours, mangled our plastic sheeting, and took a single bite from many veggies–including winter squash!
We have a lot of trouble with rabbits in my neighborhood. Last year I found a spray at a garden shop (Sorry, I don’t remember the brand.) that contained cloves, and that really helped. The directions said to reapply after it rains, but I found that I needed to reapply more often to keep those rascals away from my flowers.
We just planted 2 lbs. of green onion sets in our garden about 1 week ago, along with 40 cabbage plants, 8 broccoli plants, lettuce, radishes, mixed salad greens and about 40 lbs. of seed potatoes. Looking forward to picking it all.
Soooo jealous! We still have snow where I am and my green thumb is itching to plant my garden!
Maybe you want have to wait much longer…I hope.
A, me too! Stupid snow!
Woke up to 2 more inches this morning 😭
Sorry to hear that. It’s nice where I’m at. 62 and sunny. Sorry to rub it in. Ha! Ha!
I have done this with lettuce too. amazing how you can regrow certain veggies in just a small amount of water.
So cool that you post this! I just did some as well bc I read that it was possible. They are growing! It’s the little things 🤓😁😛
Someone must have planted some green onions in my yard before we moved in and the only way we knew it was there was when we mow it over, LOL. It still grows back every year! We also have wildlife that eat anything that we grow so it’s inspiring to se stories like this! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Love this!! I love my garden and nothing better than canning all summer so we can enjoy veggies all winter! I would encourage everyone to plant something you can pick and eat!🍅🍏🍓
So funny, I just tried this a week ago and it does totally work! I’ve been doing them in water and I read that they will get less flavorful over time. I pertinent won’t do the soil, but just making them last a couple more weeks is totally worth it and super easy!
They do get less flavorful as time goes by. I toss ours after 4-5 weeks.
Be sure to check water level every few days and change water if it gets murky.
I love these. My grandparents had these in their yard from when they gardened and they where still in their garden 20+ years later… Loved finding little discoveries like this in their big backyard as a child. 🙂
I’ve been doing this for more than a year now and I’m so happy everytime I see them grow back after I cut their leaves to use in my dishes. They thrive all year round here in AZ
My kindergartner LOVES veggies so I encourage it a lot by letting him help plant our garden and what goes on it. Last year we planted purple beans and had huge success with them! Even my picky 4 year old would eat them straight from the vine because they were pretty 😉 this year we’re trying different colored carrots (yellow, purple, red). Should be interesting.
I’ve done this for a few years now. I always put the bottoms with roots in water in a glass. I’ll cut the tops for a few weeks and then switch out with new onions because I’ve found the flavor does lessen over time. It’s nice to always have fresh green onions to eat plus the green plants on my counter for color.
other question: Do plant reduce dust in your home? If it works for you, how many plants do I need and what type?
Nope…sorry. It actually helps them grow better to mist and wipe the dust off their leaves every once and a while, since the dust collecting on their leaves can slow photosynthesis.
My yard is entirely heavy shade once all the leaves are back on the trees, which they are covered with new leaves right now. Do ANY veggies grow in shade??
How do you keep grasshoppers from eating all your garden veggies? Every time I grow something they eat it 🙁
A fine mesh netting might work, or planting certain companion plants (e.g. marigolds repel aphids). Best bet would be to go to a garden store/nursery and ask – not a Walmart or Home Depot. 🙂
Just be careful growing green onions on the counter top if you have a cat or dog. Onions are toxic to cats and dogs if they ingest them.
I threw away a whole bag of organic green onions because they were rotting. They were still in the bag. A dog dragged them out of the garbage bonto my deck so I just left them there all winter. They have sprouted into some nice sized plants. I did absolutely nothing to them. They have no soil. They are growing from whatever sunlight and rain they are getting. Amazes me!
I made the mistake of letting green onions grow in a cup and not changing or transferring them for a week. The water smelled HORRIBLE. I gagged for a solid minute. Learn from my mistake and change the water, or try not to smell it hahah
I have tried regrowing onions this way, it seems like each time you trim them, they get thinner and thinner as they keep growing. Does anyone have any advice for that?