Caring for Evergreen Onion Plants

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Mature green onions are a cold-tolerant, stalky plant that can be harvested multiple times. Water your green onion plant weekly and aim to soak the top 3 inches of soil, especially on weeks with no rain.

Green onions have shallow roots and voracious appetites, so if you'd like to maximize their growth efficiency, consider fertilizing with some worm castings or compost. This can also be helpful to 'blanch ' green onion stalks, a method where you motivate your plants to produce longer white stalks by covering the shoots with more and more soil as they grow in the early phases of their life cycle. 

Harvest green onions when stalks are taller than 12 inches. Loosen the ball from the soil and pull out your desired stalks by hand. Rinse the roots, save your stalks, and you can grow more green onions indoors by placing the bulb of the plant in a small jar of water, preferably one you can stand the bulb vertically in. Green onions can also flower, producing a dry, edible flower. 

While mature plants are cold-tolerant, extreme freezes can still harm your plant's health. Consider moving your plant indoors to a well-lit area during the winter, or contact us to overwinter your plant and give it back in the Spring.