There is often confusion about what a bunching onion actually is, and it mostly comes from the confusion around exactly why they are called ‘bunching’.Īll bulbs, and all onions for that matter, will bunch. They make excellent companion plants for slug-prone vegetables and can act as a great way to separate rows of other veg too, as they take their nutrients from lower in the soil than most other leaf crops.įor beginners to onions, or beginners to gardening entirely, here’s our guide to growing bunching onions: What are bunching onions?īunching Onions are one of the toughest veg in the garden, and one of the rare perennial crops you can make use of year after year. By their nature, bunching onions need almost no care, to the point that if you forget about them, they will just die back and regrown next year, with an even bigger crop.
There are dozens of varieties of bunching onions but, for me, it’s the early cropping spring onion that tops the lot, and growing bunching onions couldn’t be simpler. As an Amazon Associate earns from qualifying purchases.
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