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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
In favor
Perennial clump
Against
Cooking kills the top note
Grow lab
Yes
Days to harvest
60–80 days from seed; 21 days from an established clump