Grocery store bulbs :-)

[shadoh]

Last year, while at my local grocer, they were having a sale on a big sack of onions. Since we do a decent amount of cooking at my household, I figured what the heck, and bought it. We went through most of them (they actually lasted a LONG time!) before a couple of them were forgotten in the fridge abyss. When I discovered them a couple of

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[malaka]

haha I plant everything. Even stuff I know isn't supposed to "work" like peach seeds. Hey, what if?

I had some ginger planted once, it makes huge beautiful blooms.. you should try that :)

Also I had some garlic chives, when they weren't in bloom they looked like a nice ornamental grass. When they were in bloom, they were soooooo pretty. The grass part (what we think of when we think chives, right) smelled so good, a mix between garlic and onions. I loved working near them in the garden.

[shadoh]

Yeah we planted green onions and chives last year which have also re-sprouted. I love chives blooms (purple). For the past several weeks, I've had a vase with a rose (or two or three) and chives blooms and other misc. flowers from the garden. :) I'll have to give the ginger a try!

[malaka]

Ohh my chives were white, but then again they were garlic chives, so maybe a little different than regular ones.

Check out the different blooms you can get from ginger. Mine were all white, but they send up really tall stalks and have big beautiful flowers.

[shadoh]

Yeah, I think if you think of your standard chives, the blooms are usually purple. We've planted green onions and chives for years now and when they bloom, they've always been purple so far (we've gotten seeds from different sources). The green onions bloom white.

WOW on the ginger. We don't have any at home that's not ground. hmmm. Maybe it's time to buy some. :)

[xvsharrax]

I did that with my garlic, and the result? I got 7 new garlics to join the original 1!

[shadoh]

haha awesome! Can't wait then. :)

[sassy_fae]

My mom always planted the growing onions, and I've always done it with sprouting garlic too. I now have a disturbing amount of garlic growing everywhere as a result :)

Potatoes also work quite well. I had one sprout over the winter, and I potted it up in a sunny window to let it do its thing!

[shadoh]

LOL, yeah, I'm starting to wonder if my 7 cloves give me 7 new garlic bulbs, what the heck am I going to do with all that garlic, other than ward off vampires. :-)

[sassy_red_head]

I've done it with garlic many times but my onions never make it long enough.

[shadoh]

heh, yeah, I know what you mean. I'd never had this particular thing happen with onions. 95% of the time we just finish it all off, but when we don't, what usually happens is they get soggy and moldy and gross, but for whatever reason, these decided to sprout!

[ladyinterlunium]

I have done the same with potatoes :) Fun!

[shadoh]

hrm, I don't usually buy enough potatoes to have had that happen. We use potatoes pretty infrequently so we usually just buy them as singles. Maybe I'll get a sack next time just to have an excuse! hah.

[ladyinterlunium]

It's worth it, at least for fun ;P