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Allium schoenoprasum
The mildest kitchen onion — a perennial snip for eggs, and a gentler cousin of garlic’s folklore.
Flavor
Green onion, grass, a little garlic on the finish. Flowers are milder and faintly sweet.
Symptoms
indigestion, poor circulation
Against
Cooking kills the top note
Days to harvest
60–80 days from seed; 21 days from an established clump
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