How To Regrow Onions From Scraps, Growing Onions From Old Onions

[@BerryBlessedandCovered]

I really appreciate your hard work in exposing this method. I was so excited to think I could grow my own onions this way and was just about to try it. I am growing onions in water to harvest the greens but was eventually going to plant those as you did. I’m bummed that it doesn’t work.

[@diyhomeandgardening]

Hi. Many thanks for watching and taking the time to message. I’m glad you are not going to waste your time in trying to grow a perpetual crop of onions as you have seen elsewhere but also now feel a little guilty for dampening your enthusiasm. Have you ever grown Welsh onions? If not then allow me to introduce them to you as a great addition to your allotment or garden to give you a nearly endless supply of onion leaves to use. They are a perennial crop so no need to lift, store and replant. They are also evergreen so still have leaves available to use in winter months, so long as you don’t cut everything in one go. Also, they produce flowers that the bees love for an early source of nectar. You need to initially start the plants from seed or buy small plants from a garden centre but after that you won’t need to buy any again. Take a look and see what you think. 🧅🌼

[@jadefreeman9662]

I grew onions like this

[@diyhomeandgardening]

@@jadefreeman9662 Hi Jade. Thanks for watching. Which varieties of onions did you manage to grow from your sprouting ones?

[@Yafeth-z9t]

this kind of vid that should get million views.. saved us time and we learned* thanks

[@diyhomeandgardening]

🤣🤣 many thanks for watching, appreciate the comment. Unfortunately I don’t think the video will get enough views to counter the other misleading videos. Enjoy your onion growing and hope you get a great crop 🪴🌻

[@will-vi9pk]

Good for me i don't put that much effort into i chop the ends off take them outside with a shovel toss some dirt to the side drop them and toss the dirt back over and done. I put them in a area of dry ground were nothing really grows and use them for the flowers the following year im in the city people round here don't know they're just onions, they look cool like some desert plant. I got one that made a triple stalk that's like 2 and half feet tall, im sure there's a onions under their by now but im not gonna digging them up.

[@diyhomeandgardening]

@@will-vi9pk Hi and thanks for watching and the message. They do make great flowers don’t they. I grow Welsh Onions and always let them produce their flower spikes. The flowers look good and form very early in the year to give the bees some early food. Enjoy your gardening and keeping the neighbours guessing 🧅🌼

[@user-qx7ir6gb4t]

I have an organic onion that sprouted many leafs without me giving up water or planting it, so I think what you showed was peeling the skin and planting in hole gave you the most seedlings for replanting do you think the first one you had all the way in the left gave you the most that you can replant that would hopefully develop into a full onion you can eat and or produce seeds from the flower so you can plant from seed

[@diyhomeandgardening]

@@user-qx7ir6gb4t Hi. Many thanks for watching and for the message. The purpose of the video was to show that no matter which method was tried on onion will not continue to grow to produce new onions. Planting an already matured onion will only result in the production of leaves and before going on to flower for seed production. Unfortunately, only by sowing seeds or planting onion sets can a mature onion bulb be produced. For onion leaves then I grow Welsh onions as they are true perennials, just grown for leaves and flowers. All the best with your growing 🧅

[@user-qx7ir6gb4t]

@diyhomeandgardening great thanks 👍 I saw how the whole Onion split into 7 off springs so if those were planted they won't grow bigger to be able to be eaten or will at least produce seeds from the flowers to be planted as seeds produced by the original onion that the seeds will develop to larger edible onions correct? So method 1 will produce the 7 that can be planted separately to bulk the bulb or produce seeds to start from scratch and seeds will develop into bigger bulbs like original it is produced from?

[@diyhomeandgardening]

@ The onion will only grow to produce flowers and seeds. An onion is essentially a biannual so you sow the seed and it grows into an onion bulb in the first year. Year 2 the bulb produces flowers and sets seed before it dies. Hope this helps 🧅🪴

[@lisagriest2634]

I grow them no problem in my grow tent.

[@diyhomeandgardening]

@@lisagriest2634 Hi Lisa. Thanks for watching and the message. I’m curious as to if you get bulbs to form or just leaves when growing from an old onion. Have a good evening 🪴🧅

[@dalesman4530]

Having put some effort in, why not enjoy onion flowers and collect seed? Maybe they are F1s. My limited experience saving onion seed produced very viable and long lasting seed - so much better than a lot that’s sold these days.

[@diyhomeandgardening]

As always thanks for the message. I briefly thought about growing for seeds but then realised I couldn’t be bothered 🤣 The onions are Autumn Giant which to be honest are so cheap to buy as ‘sets’ from the garden centre that I can’t justify otherwise. I am growing some Kelsae from seed as no other option. Hope your season is going well 🌸

[@obsessedwithlawnoddswithgr2092]

good work brother 👏

[@diyhomeandgardening]

Thanks for watching, much appreciated. Happy growing 🧅🪴

[@freddieivory625]

Great experience!! Thank you so much. Would you throw those away or eating the bulbs from your experience?, I mean, if you didn’t have a great supply of real onions! 😅

[@diyhomeandgardening]

Hi Freddie. Thanks for watching and the message, much appreciated. Personally I wouldn’t bother keeping the bulbs beyond maybe cutting off the first of the leaves to use as some flavouring. The bulbs soon form seed heads so become smaller in size too. It felt like a worthwhile experiment to prove to myself that all the videos were fake or at least much exaggerated. Enjoy your growing and hope you get a great crop 🪴🧅

[@KB-uj8vk]

Or... grow these for seed.

[@diyhomeandgardening]

@@KB-uj8vk many thanks for watching and the message. Competition growers often plant their older show onions to allow them to pet to flowering stage and then to produce seeds. With a general supermarket type onion it isn’t generally worth the 2 year growing time just to get seed. Better to buy the seed and then grow from year to year. Good luck with your onion growing 🪴🧅