Green Onions Forever - My 60 Day Experiment

So somewhere on the internet, in all the Pinners I follow and blogs I subscribe to, I read somewhere about keeping onions growing in a glass of water, and have green onions forever...

Really?  Well, I happen to use a lot of green onions, daily in fact, and they rarely last long - if I didn't use them up, they go soggy and slimy.  So when I bought another few bunches, I thought, why not?



So, vaguely following what I remembered, I simply placed the onions I had just bought into a glass.

Please disregard the rotten banana in the background...

Within a few days though, I realized that the onions were too tall / heavy for the glass, so they were upgraded to a peanut butter jar.  To use them, I just used my kitchen sheers and snipped a length off, and then snipped them directly into whatever it was I was making.

Within 2 days, the ones I had snipped, had started to re-sprout.

Please disregard the bottle of Skinny Girl Margarita in the background....

Thirty days - impressive.  By this time we had used all of the original onion, and what you see are pure sprouts of re-growth.  It was suggested to occasionally change the water every few days... and at first I did, but then I got a little relaxed in doing it, maybe it was the Margaritas....

By day 60, it was smelling funky, and quite a few of them slimed out on me.  But it was my fault. I wasn't changing the water frequently enough. These are the few that were left after I cleaned them up.  I ended up throwing them out.

But based on what we had used and watching them regrow - I'm so doing this again.  This time though, I'm in the habit of changing the water daily - and created the habit of doing to, as I know do it when I do the dinner dishes.  If we go out for dinner, skipping 1 day won't hurt them.  Skipping 2 weeks does.

Now I know.

So Onions forever?  I don't know.  But spending $0.99 on onions for 2 months? Ohhh yea!



Inspiration: Homemade Serenity