Alium cepa var proliferum

Egyptian Walking Onions are a magnificent perpetual onion variety, they don't make huge bulbs that store well, they are however a "harvest anytime" onion.
Most onion varieties have a specific window when they can be planted and harvested, often leaving huge holes in the harvest season when there simply aren't any home grown onions to harvest, so you need to spend money at the stores for expensive bulbing onions.
Enter the Egyptian Walking Onion, this onion does not produce flowers, but rather small top-sets where the flowers should be. These top-sets fall over and plant themselves, this is the famed walking, as the plant is able to move along the bed a good 30-50 cm each season.
The added benefit is that the onions themselves also split, so a single onion becomes 10 in a period of 6 months or so.

The trick with walking onions is to harvest a bunch, pull two onions off and plant them, use the balance in your cooking. If you do this every time you harvest you will ALWAYS have fresh onions in the garden for home use.
The entire onion is used, from the slight bulb, all the way up to the leaves.

These onions have an ancient history and this was one of the staple crops fed to the Jews when they were building the pyramids and enslaved by the Egyptians.


Qty: 6 Onions

Aadila Kadwa 19/07/2025

I still have these onions walking in my garden 2 years later. Small but lovely. I use them when I'm short of onions in my draw and I just need a small onion. I moved them this year to walk in another place. Hopefully they do well. I love them as "emergency" onions. It's a plant once and forget about it type of plant. Revisit yearly to divide the onions and replant.

Anita Faber 29/06/2025

Whenever I see my onions, the tune in my head is "Walk like an Egyptian".

susan kemp 20/06/2025

Did not take. I boasted to all my frienda and sadly have nothing to show. Is it because we are in a winter rainfall area? Very sad

Kim Scott 15/01/2025

Love these. They bunch up and split continuously. I'm never without a spring onion supply. Survived the frost last year and just keep going. Love them

Jocelyn Schiava 27/06/2024

Delivey very good. Sorry, not able to find planting instructions.Carry on withthe good service.

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Egyptian Walking Onions

  • Product Code: 167-LS845
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  • R51.52


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