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Are you ready onions? Start walking.

Egyptian walking onions, also known as tree onions, are a sterile hybrid perennial vegetable. They reproduce asexually, forming ‘bulblets’ on top of what would the flower stalk in other alliums.

Some cultivars will do this not once, but twice, making a three-level onion ‘tree,’ Although most will stop at an onion of double height. 

The stalks eventually bend over from the weight of the bulblets, and re-plant themselves about 20-40 cm from the parent plant. This motion progresses season-to-season, which, if sped up, would give the appearance of the onion “walking” around the garden.

The larger onion in the ground, the stalks and leaves, and the bulblets on the top can all be eaten, and once planted, these onions will stick around for the long haul.

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