Onion? What the heck

**Lady Hobbs** · 07-22-2009, 04:12 PM

I found in the flower bed outside my apartment 3 big tall onion plants. There isn't a garden anywhere even remotely near me so it didn't come sailing thru the air and just plant itself there. I dump all my old plants and junk outside behind a big bush and two years ago I had onion plants. Could it be even remotely possible these onions made it thru two winters and 5 ft of snow dumped on them? Can Crinum thaianum grow emmersed?

I pulled them out and threw them in with my silver dollars just to see what happens.

**Rue** · 07-22-2009, 04:17 PM

...if they make a salad with it, let us know...

**Lady Hobbs** · 07-22-2009, 04:21 PM

Now they want a hamburger to go with their onion.

**Rue** · 07-22-2009, 04:24 PM

...careful...they may REALLY be pirahnas in disguise...

Take a baseball bat to bed with you tonight...

**Deleted User** · 07-22-2009, 05:51 PM

The onion plant is one of the toughest plants you can get.

They are actually a member of the Lilly family so yes I would say that your onion plants have survived because of this.

**fishlover49** · 07-22-2009, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Lady Hobbs

I found in the flower bed outside my apartment 3 big tall onion plants. There isn't a garden anywhere even remotely near me so it didn't come sailing thru the air and just plant itself there. I dump all my old plants and junk outside behind a big bush and two years ago I had onion plants. Could it be even remotely possible these onions made it thru two winters and 5 ft of snow dumped on them? Can Crinum thaianum grow emmersed?

I pulled them out and threw them in with my silver dollars just to see what happens.

Yes, it is definitely possible they are from the ones you threw out. We have onions that do the same thing. They just keep going to seed and coming back.

Tough little buggers.