A Strange Harvest

I decided today to pull out the bulbs growing in my window sill bed. After a lot of deep digging and pulling, I finally yanked out what looks to be like a dozen onion-like white bulbs. They're actually red brown skinned on the outside, but I pealed the wet outer layer, which my I shouldn't have done now that I've read tips on storing onions. I washed them, sniffed them, dried them, and put them on a newspaper outside on the balcony to dry in the sun. Just like onions.



But onions they are not. Now comes the foolhardy task of identifying this mystery plant. Onions, even wild onions, have tubular leaves, and a distinctive onion-y smell. These bulbs, on the other hand, have flat leaves which flopped down like onions, and very little to no smell at all. I even did a taste test, and bit one lightly. No sign of the onion taste.

I don't know what they are. They're definitely not one of the flowering suspects, like wild irises or hyacinths, since I've never seen the hint of a flower on them. They're also not wild onions, scallions, chives, shallots, or leeks. Since all of the afore-mentioned have tubular leaves.
Any ideas?


I also wanted to share some pictures of my burgeoning garden. You can click to embiggen all the pictures :)

These are the tomatoes. They've just been transplanted and appear to be doing really really well. When re-potting tomatoes, I placed a good amount of compost underneath them, and put them deep in the soil up to 3/4 of the plants length so that just the leaves peak out of the soil. This is because the buried stem will develop new roots and this makes for a stronger tomato plant. Just look at the sturdy and strong looking leaves and stem.



Hala bought a primula (primrose) that was being sold at AUB. It was grown there too. I moved it to it's own pot, mulched it, and put it in the shade as these flowers like.


My growing chili peppers.


I soaked a fresh stem of mint in water and it rooted. I replanted it successfully in a pot. After that are the pretty and tiny white flower of the basil.