Egyptian Walking Onions

 I have recently really got into growing perennials. The Egyptian Walking Onion I had grown before at our old house but I guess they never got enough sun there. Here at the new house, however, we have plenty of sun and they have done incredibly well. 

I started with buying 30 bulbils from eBay and was sent several extra. I planted them all in the space in front of my huge rosemary in one of the 8'x8' beds, taking up only a quarter of the space.

They grew great the first year and produced a ton of bulbils. This is now their second year and they have done just as well. I really haven't done anything to them and I think that is really the key to growing them. Don't baby them. They don't really need to be fertilized and I have watered them way less than my other plants because they really didn't seem to need it. 

Egyptian Walking Onions are perennial, multiplying onion. Left in the ground they will come back year after year. If you leave the bulbils on top, they will eventually fall over, touch the ground and root themselves wherever they have fallen. 

The green parts can be used as any green onion or dehydrated and saved for soups and stews. The bulbils can be collected and replanted or you can clean and chop in a food processer, dehydrate and using a coffee grinder make a very good onion powder. 

The bottom bulb parts can be used like any onion or shallot and if you leave a few they will continue to multiply for years to come.