{"id":3943,"date":"2012-02-29T21:18:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T05:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/?product=walking-onion-egyptian"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:41:53","slug":"egyptian-walking-onion-allium-x-proliferum","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/shop\/egyptian-walking-onion-allium-x-proliferum\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Walking Onion (Allium x proliferum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cross between <i>Allium cepa<\/i>, the cultivated onion, and\u00a0<i>Allium fistulosum<\/i>, the Welsh onion. It gets its common name from the way it \u201cwalks\u201d across the garden. \u00a0Instead of flowers, this plant produces topsets, a cluster of bulbils, at the top of the stalk where the flowers and seeds would normally be. The stalks eventually flop over from the weight of the bulbils (if not harvested) and replant themselves, thus beginning their \u201cwalk\u201d across the ground. Harvest greens in spring and fall to use like chives. Use onion bulbs much like you would use pearl onions. 125-250 days from transplant. Photo courtesy of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.<br \/>\nCare: Plant 6-8&#8243; apart in rows 12-18&#8243; apart in full sun. May need staking. Leave some unharvested bulbils to fall over and root themselves, for a new crop next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Egyptian-Walking-Onion.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26941\" src=\"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Egyptian-Walking-Onion-1024x488.jpg\" alt=\"Egyptian Walking Onion\" width=\"1024\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Egyptian-Walking-Onion-1024x488.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Egyptian-Walking-Onion-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Egyptian-Walking-Onion-768x366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Egyptian-Walking-Onion-1536x731.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Egyptian-Walking-Onion-700x333.jpg 700w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Egyptian-Walking-Onion.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross between Allium cepa, the cultivated onion, and\u00a0Allium fistulosum, the Welsh onion. It gets its common name from the way it \u201cwalks\u201d across the garden. \u00a0Instead of flowers, this plant produces topsets, a cluster of bulbils, at the top of the stalk where the flowers and seeds would normally be. The stalks eventually flop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[1986,796],"product_tag":[1612,1978,299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}