Property News · June 17, 2017

How to grow all kinds of alliums | Alys Fowler


There are a huge variety of tasty, garden-worthy plants in the genus best known for the humble brown-skinned onion My garden is awash with onions this year. Not the brown- or red-skinned cooking onions that are the beginning of any good recipe (or are you a garlic‑first sort?), but every other type: ornamental onions, wild onions, strange onions, onions that think they are garlic.Allium is a large genus: there are 500 species, mostly found in the northern hemisphere, and we have been eating them for a long, long time. There are many worth eating, the obvious being onions (Allium cepa), leeks (A. ampeloprasum), garlic (A. sativum) and shallots (A. cepa, aggregatum group), but other, less well‑known species are tasty, garden-worthy plants. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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