I transferred all of my perennial onions to my new perennial bed today (multiplier and pearl onions look really good). In the old allium bed I found four little plants that I don't recognise and I can't work out where they came from!
If I'd deliberately planted/sowed them they would be in a square block - but there was one mixed in with the Welsh onions, one with the one surviving Red Breton and the other two in the section where I grew onions from sets last year. Nothing flowered or went to seed there.
They look very much like young leeks (but I didn't sow any leeks there at all last year either). They are about the thickness of a finger with flat leaves and a very slight bulge just above the roots. They are white but the outer skin of the stem is definitely reddish.
They are very healthy-looking plants which seem to have survived the winter very well, so I've replanted them in the perennial bed and will keep an eye on them to see if they bulb up or divide or just grow bigger like leeks.
It's very confusing! What on earth could they be and where did they come from? I'm baffled!
If I'd deliberately planted/sowed them they would be in a square block - but there was one mixed in with the Welsh onions, one with the one surviving Red Breton and the other two in the section where I grew onions from sets last year. Nothing flowered or went to seed there.
They look very much like young leeks (but I didn't sow any leeks there at all last year either). They are about the thickness of a finger with flat leaves and a very slight bulge just above the roots. They are white but the outer skin of the stem is definitely reddish.
They are very healthy-looking plants which seem to have survived the winter very well, so I've replanted them in the perennial bed and will keep an eye on them to see if they bulb up or divide or just grow bigger like leeks.
It's very confusing! What on earth could they be and where did they come from? I'm baffled!
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