Spring Onion vs. Green Onions - What's the Difference?

Scallions, green onions, spring onions...oh my?! These names are used interchangeably and often wrong. So what is what? I explain it all in this video.

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[Alboreoh]

It is legitimately surprising how few videos there are on YouTube that refer to spring onions in this way. Thanks for the video.

[walterthor]

Thank you so much!! I'm in Australia and a newbie gardener. I just planted spring onions that you would call scallions. I was reading all this info about spring onions being young onions and became really concerned because I have direct sowed my seed in a large pot based on them only being scallion sized when full grown!! I am so grateful to you for this very clear explaination!!!

[kelingsui]

Oh my god! Only now i know I've been planting scallion/green onions not spring onion 😅😅

[poerc]

I definitely was starting to get frustrated with the names of the scallions and wondered about the difference, so thanks so much for posting!

[ellieplanit]

This addressed every single question I have about spring onions and scallions

[BooksFallen]

I'm from Spain and I was so confused about this. Thank you so much for your video!!

[lalitafaroli]

Just bought spring onions by mistake thinking they were scallions with a bulb.

[ཨོཾཨཱཿཧཱུྂ]

I am planting both from seeds and the seeds look exactly the same and their sprouts look the same too...

Glad you made a video explaining the sifference! Thank you! 😉🙏

[cg]

Thanks very helpful. I bought a spring onion from my local farmer in town and I thought it was a scallion. Now I know how and what to eat it.

[Evelyn-zntd]

Very helpful, I was looking at a British recipe that called for spring onions, based on the picture of the recipe (they used the greens), seems like they intended scallions. Thank you! Very informative!

[ayamkuning]

Thanks for clearing the confusion.
Now I'm totally understand!

[zush]

In Spain they call scallions/green onions, 'ajos tiernos' which I think means something like 'spring garlic', and what you call 'spring onions', are a direct translation, 'cebolla tierna', so I've been so confused! Thank you for clearing this up!

[gospel]

Thanks. Confusion happens when getting recipes from youtubers in the UK. This helped! YouTube encyclopedia saves the day again.

[louisedenise]

The greens on home grown spring onions are wonderful. It is what we grow them for. Regular onions which we eat the green tops from while young, then leave the bulb to grow and develop for use later.

[TripsCloudsPureBliss]

Thanks so much! Grew up abroad and grew up calling them spring onions. Moved to the States and was immediately confused

[BhavnaPanda]

Thanks a ton!! I was banging my head against the wall trying to explain to the vegetable vendor what I wanted, but was using the wrong terms!

[wewwliff]

Hi! I use your videos in order to learn English about herbs. So I would say you are a nice english teacher :)

[mingji]

Super helpful ! The explanation is very clear : )

[ravenvalkyrie]

I literally search for "can you eat the leaves of onions", then I saw your vlog. 😀 Good to know the difference of these two. Thank you for making this vlog.

[charlesanikpecooks]

Thanks for explaining I used to get confused before