My lawn is filled with wild green onions :)

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funboy6942

funboy6942

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Decided to mow the back half of my yard today because I had sprouts all over it I though to be wild grass growing like mad. Fired up the old riding lawn mower, did a first pass and Im smelling freaking onions. Yelled to my boy to grab one of the stalks of wild grass and pull it up and let me take a look see. It was freaking green onions, green onions growing all over my lawn in the back yard.

I had him grab a bucket and go all over the back yard and get all the big stalks he could find. I left a little of my back yard un-touched where there is a good 30 or so stalks still to small to pick up in hopes they will turn bigger. This never happened last year, why this year I got them? Im not mad, or looking a gift horse in the mouth here for I love green onions, and looking forward to cooking with them tomorrow, just wondering as to why last year nothing, and this year all over. Even my neighbors lawn has them all over.

The only thing that comes to my mind is we fed the birds last year some bird seed, could that had the onion seed in it and they pooped it out, or migrating birds pooped all over my yard? We did get several times, several hundred black birds that landed in our back yard, you couldnt see the lawn there way so many of them.

Im just happy I got them, strange as to why, but super happy :)

Try to contain your excitement, but here it is, the stuff in my lawn.
 
Slew Foot

Slew Foot

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Mmmmmm.... pooped out onions :)

Man I wish I had some land to grow stuff in, but living in CA is too expensive.
 
funboy6942

funboy6942

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Originally posted by: alyssa
Pics?
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Well I mowed it all down but the patch so not really to exciting to see any more now that it is all pretty much gone, but I can take a pic of the patch tomorrow if anyone really wants to see onion sprouting from the ground.

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
weird...your neighbor wouldnt be named Jimmy Onionseed would he?
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Nope, Woods, but he is a farmer, grows Asparagus, cantelope (SP), apples, and pumpkins in the land right behind mine. Gives us great stuff every year since we been here, and I have 2 pecan trees and one chestnut tree of my own. Love the chestnut, got a huge harvest last year, sold several pounds of them to some people in the FS/FT section. Looking forward to eating more of them this year.
 
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Midlander

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My backyard had these one year when I was growing up. We just kept mowing them, so they didn't survive.

I can also remember the cows in the area getting into wild onions one year. The milk tasted a bit strange for a couple of weeks. I wonder why that doesn't happen anymore....
 
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and my plot thickens..... my master plan is working. muhuahahahahahaha.. yes my master plan to... reak havok among the entire nation. for it was me, super johnny onion seed who planted the onions in all your yards to make it smell like onion. muhuahahahhaha. you will never catch me. bwahahahaha ahahahhahah hahaha ha
 
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drnickriviera

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I hope the boy pulled up the bulbs as well. It's been a mild winter down here. The weeds are really bad this year. I had to cut the bermuda grass for the first time yesterday. Usually I wouldn't need to cut for ac ouple more weeks.
 
waggy

waggy

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ohh neat we planted onions in the garden one year. they didnt grow in the garden but about 10 ft away we had some. i thought that was kinda odd.
 
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funboy6942

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Originally posted by: drnickriviera
I hope the boy pulled up the bulbs as well. It's been a mild winter down here. The weeds are really bad this year. I had to cut the bermuda grass for the first time yesterday. Usually I wouldn't need to cut for ac ouple more weeks.
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Yeah, he got the bulb and all, I washed them off before going to bed and cut them down to size as you see in the store. Today I be making my concoction of beef stew meat, onion soup, brown gravy, soy sauce, and chopped up green onions poured over egg noodles. Using these onions of course, hopefully it will taste good, they smell great, so I dont see why it wont be good as usual.

Have to look up the leeks you mention and see what they look like.

EDIT

Nope they are not leeks
for the for sure look like spring onions in this picture.
In fact there were a lot of onions in the bunches that had hardly to no green stalks but huge bulbs.
 
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conehead433

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I have wild garlic chives growing in my field that I mow. They smell real good when you mow over them. Taste pretty good on taters too.
 
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funboy6942

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No one did chime in as to how my lawn got so many of them, or was I right about my bird sh!t theory?
 
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Wild onions (allium canadense) are cool-season perennial with slender, hollow cylindrical leaves. Its presence indicates very low calcium, high magnesium, low humus and a low bacterial count.

So I guess you should drink more milk, reduce your consumption of green leafy vegetables, get more humus, and wash less.

http://www.turfdoctorinc.com/common_lawn_prob.htm

 
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alien42

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ive always thought they were common weeds that grow just about anywhere in the US. i know we had them in the midwest as a child and now in the southeast.
 
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