How to Re-Grow Green Onions /Scallions /Shallots / Spring Onions from store bought in a Your Garden

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Allium Fistulosum or Green Onions photographed on a wooden chopping board with a knife indicating where to cut the root off if you intend to re-grow the root.

Spring Onions / Green Onions / Allium Fistulosum, also known as Shallots in some countries, can be re-grown from the root offcut in your garden. 

Yes it can be done... but there are some important steps along the way for growing shallots / spring onions if you want to do it again and again.

First buy a bunch from the market and aim for a larger thicknesses in the bunch.

Make sure you buy the ones with the roots still attached.

Cut the stem of the spring onions off about an inch above the roots. Keep the remaining spring onions to use in your cooking.

Next you need a glass to start the green onions growing again. One that light can penetrate because you are going to put it on a window sill where it can benefit from sunlight.

Put your green onions in the glass - its fine to crowd them in, with the roots on the bottom of the glass.

Put a small amount of water covering the roots - note covering the roots only! Then place your glass on a window sill that get ambient sun light or even direct sunlight..




The shallots will begin growing that day - as soon as there is water on the roots. Give the roots a rinse every day and add in new - preferably filtered water (drinkable water) every day.

The shallots will grow longer and longer every day to the point where you have enough green stem to transfer them into soil - in a pot or in your garden.


The aim once you have them growing in the garden is to plant rows of them, or a number of pots, so eventually you have an abundance of spring onions growing in the garden at various phases of development.

Keep buying spring onions from the market every time you need them and re-grow each batch till you have quite the crop. It is at this stage that you can start harvesting the outermost leaves from the base of the most mature plants as you need them.

When you hit critical mass in terms of number of plants in the garden producing all the re-grown spring onions you need, you will have an abundance of spring onions regrown from store bought!

Spring Onions Re-Grown From Store Bought


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