Friday, July 19, 2013

Google to the Rescue


We went for a quick trip to Oliver last week.  It's been a couple of months since we've been there.  Not that we hadn't planned on going sooner, but my trip to Ontario changed things up, and then I was trying to catch up around here (impossible), and for one reason or another we just couldn't seem to make the time.  The first thing I did was check the little vegetable garden.  Amazingly it was still surviving.  There had only been 1.17 inches of rain in May and June.  A family member had been there on the July 1st long weekend and done some watering.  These things, whatever they are, were the most impressive.    There had been a clump of them already in the garden when we took possession last Fall.  

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At the same time I was planting some garlic, I took a quite a few of these bulblets off and planted them also, and now I have more of the same thing.

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And some of the tops go a little crazy and do this

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The bottoms of them look like this

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So I wanted to know what they were actually called.  After not making any headway, I finally googled something like 'singled hollow stemmed onion with bulblets on the top'.  And I got this

Mystery solved!

1 comment:

  1. Huh, figured it was in the onion family but never heard of them either. Let us know what you do with them and how they taste :)

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