Walking through TSC I saw onion sets and grabbed a bag on a whim.

I planted the onions around my pumpkin and cucumber plants. Some of the sets were dry and didn’t seem viable, but others were firm and a couple had some green already at the tip. Six days after planting I noticed a few of the onions were growing.

I’ve tried onions from seed with no luck. I was hoping the squirrels and other critters would leave onions alone, but I found one set excavated. I’m hoping to harvest some green onions when they are young. I don’t have much hope that there will be mature onions this winter.

We harvested the greens from the green onions in a baggie in the window, and it worked so well, we are trying a new setup with onions in test tubes.

I ordered a set of plastic test tubes and a test tube rack through Amazon. I chose the plastic because there is a good possibility of the cat walking on the window sill and knocking it over. We cut off (and used) the green parts of the onion (which my eldest likes best anyway) and put the white part and roots in the test tube, then filled the water just to cover the white part. The idea is that we harvest the greens when they are long enough. After three days, we are already seeing growth!