Green onion sprouts - can we pick them?

puddy

we are growing onions and they have some lovely green shoots coming out the tops at the moment. they look like chives and i would like to eat them. will it damage the onion plant to cut them off?

Farway

You will harm & destroy your onion crop if you eat these leaves, they are the food / sunlight gathering items that the growing onion need to grow & mature. Do not use them like chives

Why not just get some chives? They really are dead easy to grow, you could buy any pot grown for culinary use from any supermarket for under a quid, just harden it off a bit & plant out

misskool

The green bits for the onion is use for them to grow the onion bigger. So if you want a big onion, then leave them.

You can grow chives for snipping tops off

edit: Farway posted before I could finish typing

puddy

thanks,, we are growing chives too, i just thought i could use these as well!