Followup: bunching vs green onion

if you look back the past few years i've mentioned the Tokyo onions as being very mild onion and easy to eat fresh.

however, since i normally eat raw onions and raw garlic full strength i don't find eating any kind of onion too much, except if i manage to do it on a hot day with an empty stomach <-- that is not a recommendation for anyone...

how hot an onion is does depend a lot upon the variety - some are milder than others. if you took seeds for any of the noted mild onions and grew them as a a green onion and harvested them early and ate them you would likely find they are milder.

alas, onions easily will cross so if you are growing multiple kinds of onions you need to either space them far apart or have them blooming at different times.

as it turns out the earliest onions blooming here are the Tokyo onions. use the seeds from those that set pods the earliest and discard the rest.

songbird

I do not remember seeing that. But I do remember you telling me about them.They are going great guns and are very yummy! Thank you!