Walking Onions

I just went to a GC with my gardening client on the basis that it was too wet to do her garden, but since she's been moaning about her containers looking dreadful we should use today to get some plants for them.

While there I found in the herb section walking onions, so never having seen them before I bought a pot. Does anyone grow them? I've googled them and some people say they are hardy and survive in their gardens and other people say they vanish. Should I pot them into a larger pot and protect them from frost in the winter or risk them in the beds? Do I sow the bulblets like bunching onions in September? And one of the two main bulbs has white flowers on the top in addition to its bulblets. Do I cut those off?

 

They are quite hardy. They "walk" by dropping the bulbils & growing new plants from them. I had them on the main plot for years.

 

Thanks. They seem to have quite a strong smell too!

 

I had some Welsh Onions ,I believe you plant 1 next year its 2 then 4 etc,they double, sadly lost them while away in that HOT spring ,yet they came through that previous bad winter. They were in a pot.

 

I'm thinking of trying some walking onions just for interest but I don't want my garden over run with them. Does anyone know whether they are easy to control or would I just be adding to my weeding workload?

Thanks