A brief YouTube gardening hack by Nicole Johnsey Burke explaining how to replace store-bought green onions by planting dried pearl onions in a kitchen garden. The speaker gives step-by-step advice: buy dried pearl onions from the dry goods aisle, plant bulbs with roots down at bulb-depth in raised-bed edges, and harvest cut-and-come-again green onion shoots that regrow weekly.
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Here's a garden hack you've got to try. Replace store bought green onions with ones you grow yourself. When you need green onions, you want to leave these on the grocery store shelf and head to the dry section instead. Pick up a bag of these dried pearl onions and bring these home with you. Now it's time to head out to the kitchen garden and find some spots to plant. Find the fibrous root of the onion, make sure that goes down into the ground and let the tip be up. You want to plant these about the depth of the bulb itself and cover it up. A few weeks later, you're going to return to your kitchen garden to to find the most lovely green onions growing in the corners and edges of your raised bed. Now, anytime you need some green onions, you're just going to head to the garden and cut what you need and leave what you don't. The magic of these onions is that they literally regrow from the heart of the plant each and every week that they're in your kitchen garden. So take the challenge and replace your own green onions with those you grow yourself this season.