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[TwoCrows]

Just catching up on the thread, awesome succulents!!
Me and the Missus are currently growing some pretty boring cati, just trying to see what SE Texas climate and soil will handle.
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Hey, I said they were boring!

Wow, absolutely gorgeous! They are not boring!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[TioBollio]

Wow, absolutely gorgeous! They are not boring!!! Thanks for sharing!

You're too kind.
My Missus gets (almost) all the credit.
She's been a bit down in the dumps lately, I'd like to get her something awesome that would flourish here, maybe something for an indoor office?
Or a spectacular outdoor?
I'm looking for wow factor.

 

[Sally PB]

walking onion

If anyone here wants starts for Egyptian Walking Onions (EWO), PM me your mailing address, and I'll send you some. I have a bed of them and I have PLENTY of bulbils (topsets) to share.

Once they get going, you will have onions forever. As long as I can get a shovel into the ground, I can have fresh onions. EWOs are a shallot type of onion, not a bulbing type.

This is the bed:

The entire plant is edible. The greens are like chives/green onions. The bulbils are small, about fingernail sized. If you did up half of the clump, it will refill. If you dig up the entire clump, that plant is gone, but believe me!!! they fill in. The name "walking onion" comes from the topsets falling over and starting a new plant, and "walking" across the bed. No idea where the Egyptian part comes from.

Even asparagus apparently takes years to get to the point of being able to harvest/eat.

Start with crowns, not seeds. That will save you a year.

 

[TioBollio]

Dang!
To me it looks almost like a wild garlic!
Sweet, hot, what is the flavor profile?

 

[ChickyCh00k]

Start with crowns, not seeds. That will save you a year.

Ah, yes! Thank you for that tidbit.

And I might take you up on that walking onion offer! We live in the same state, so shipping would be cheap. I'd be happy to Venmo/Zelle/PayPal etc.

 

[Sally PB]

More on perennials... I have very good luck with garlic. I bought several Music variety bulbs at a local farmstand several years ago. I haven't bought garlic since. Music makes big cloves. Hmmm... bigger than EWOs! Anyway, it's a hardneck variety, and there is another gift: Garlic scapes in June! That's the "hardneck" which is really the flower stalk. You cut that for two reasons, one because it's tasty, and two, the plant sends more energy to the bulb to make bigger cloves.

If you like rhubarb, that's another fairly easy perennial to grow, but also one that takes 2-3 years to get established.

If you grow potatoes, save the little ones to plant the next year. I haven't bought seed potatoes in 3 years.

 

[Sally PB]

EWOs are a strong-ish onion flavor. The greens are much milder than the bulb.

Just pm me your mailing address, and I'll mail you (any of you) some bulbils. No charge.

Pssst... it's actually a cult I've started. Once you have EWOs, you will always have EWOs. Heh heh heh heh....

 

[ChickyCh00k]

More on perennials... I have very good luck with garlic. I bought several Music variety bulbs at a local farmstand several years ago. I haven't bought garlic since. Music makes big cloves. Hmmm... bigger than EWOs! Anyway, it's a hardneck variety, and there is another gift: Garlic scapes in June! That's the "hardneck" which is really the flower stalk. You cut that for two reasons, one because it's tasty, and two, the plant sends more energy to the bulb to make bigger cloves.
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If you like rhubarb, that's another fairly easy perennial to grow, but also one that takes 2-3 years to get established.

If you grow potatoes, save the little ones to plant the next year. I haven't bought seed potatoes in 3 years.

You're a wealth of edible landscape info!! I'd love to pick your brain as I get closer to getting things going!

 

[Sally PB]

Please do! The garden thread here on BYC is full of very knowledgeable people too.

I was looking for as many plants as possible to be either perennial, or that I wouldn't have to buy starts/seeds. I started saving my own tomato seeds because we eat a lot of canned tomatoes. I've saved some bean seeds too, from a variety that I really like.

For instance: I'll have 65-70 quarts of canned tomatoes in the pantry. Here's what I bought:

Some Tomato-Tone fertilizer and some powered gypsum to combat blossom end rot. I'll have enough of both for at least next year.

I had to pay for the canning lids, the salt, and the lemon juice for canning. And the electricity to run the stove.

Here's what I did not buy:
Tomato seeds, tomato plants, potting soil, pots.

You can make your own potting soil MUCH more cheaply than you can buy it, and it'll be better quality too. I make my own pots out of cottage cheese and yogurt containers (a friend saves them for me).

 

[TwoCrows]

You're too kind.
My Missus gets (almost) all the credit.
She's been a bit down in the dumps lately, I'd like to get her something awesome that would flourish here, maybe something for an indoor office?
Or a spectacular outdoor?
I'm looking for wow factor.

Maybe a greenhouse? Not sure if it might be too hot in Texas for one though. Maybe a gazebo where she can hang baskets, grow shade loving plants?