Welsh onion
Welsh onion: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Welsh onion, Allium fistulosum, belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family alongside onions and chives. It has a distinctive place among aromatic vegetables because both its leaves and elongated base offer an onion flavour without developing the large rounded bulb of a storage onion. You can think of it as a fresh vegetable as well as a seasoning ingredient. Its appeal comes from flavour, texture and versatility in everyday cooking.The upright foliage consists of green, cylindrical, hollow leaves. Their overlapping bases form a pale section that is often called a stem, although it is made from leaf sheaths. A clump can produce neighbouring shoots and become denser as it develops. The length of the pale base, the thickness of the leaves and the overall vigour differ between selections and growing conditions. Some forms have a pinkish tint around the base rather than a uniformly white appearance. These differences explain why Welsh onions…
