The onion

The onion plant, 29 May 20

One of my side gardening plants, this plant never received the attention of my other plants.

This plant started off as a supermarket green onion cutting. It grew over the spring and summer last year, survived Hurricane Dorian, and I left it outside for the winter with nothing done to the pot (didn’t even cover it up). I was convinced the cold weather would kill the plant (as it had killed my other potted plants) but somehow in the spring it started growing new shoots and now I developing flower bulbs. I’m hoping for some nice flowers and maybe a nice bulb at the end of this year so I can harvest my one onion.

On a side note: I had another onion plant in a much larger pot, thinking that one would survive the winter because of the extra soil insulation. Unfortunately that one died (no new shoots and when I pulled it up, the roots were mush).