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Unlock Your Garden's Potential: Grow Perpetual Garlic and Onions with These Simple Tips
A recent online video from gardener MegGrowsPlants offers valuable insights into cultivating a continuous supply of elephant garlic and walking onions, two perennial plants known for their ease of growth and self-propagating nature. The video highlights that elephant garlic, a milder relative of traditional garlic, produces small, easily detachable corms at its base. These corms can be immediately replanted to yield new bulbs, ensuring gardeners don't need to sacrifice their main harvest for propagation. Similarly, walking onions are presented as a unique non-bulbing green onion variety. Their distinctive flower heads develop small bulbils that can either fall onto the soil and root themselves, giving the plant its 'walking' name, or be harvested and replanted by hand. This method allows for rapid multiplication and a steady supply of green onions throughout the year. Both plants are noted for their low-maintenance requirements, making them ideal for gardeners seeking sustainable and effortless harvests. Elephant garlic thrives in zones 5-10, while walking onions are suitable for zones 3-9, according to the video.
