Hi All,
My over winter onions are now four inches tall.
Problem: my neighbor's trees are shedding their leaved for fall. My onions starts are somewhat covered in leaves.
I have heard that mulch helps protect over winter onions. Will leaves do the same thing or do I need to clean them out?
Many thanks,
-T
I'm ignoring the leaves caught in my winter onions (a.k.a. topping onions, walking onions, and egyptian onions) except when I find time to pull the weeds, or harvest scallions.
I've recently learned that winter onions can be harvested all year. When the spring scallions give out I can use the bulbils, when the bulbils get tough, there are bulbs at the base, and when the bulbs sprout, there is a fall crop of scallions. And the bulbs remain good for a long time after they sprout, shrivelling from the top down and outside in instead of rotting.
Thank you!
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