Recycled scallions

You know how FB, Instagram and Pinterest show tons of those little hacks how to reuse/regrow food from scraps? You can do that with lettuce, celery and hell knows what else. Have you ever try any of those by the way?

This year, and last year as well I did that with scallions. For some reason it is not very popular here to eat the green part of onions around here, so I don't always find it in the shop. But when I do... I get a nice, a fresh looking ones and as we eat the green part I keep and plant the little onions with just a little bit of stem. It doesn't matter they were cleaned and stripped from the outside layers. Nor that their roots are all chopped off. They will grow!

And even bloom :)

Of course flowers are the most photogrnic part and I was really looking forward to see it bloom. But besides that we were eating some fresh scallions every now and then and a good few weeks! There is not lots of it out of about 10 onions that I have planted, but it was nice to just go out to the balcony and pick some to sprinkle on eggs or toasts.

Now they slowly start to dry off and less of those green leaves grow. And I wonder if I should just lift them from the soil, and just use the onions for cooking, or leave them there and see. Will they keep growing when it cools down, or maybe next year? I know there are some types that will regrow (chives I think does that), but we were always collecting all onions in summer from the garden.

I will wait a maybe a week or two more and then decide.

Bonus shot with a gorgeous Neighbour. I have thise very dark Aeonium and in cooler months, when it grows it looks just so amazing! They are dormant in summer when it is hot and no water (in nature), then they drop most of the leaves and kind if close to the center. As soon as winter starts and more rain comes they open like a flower and start growing like crazy.
This was almost the end of the growing season for this one.