EU members: Looking for Walking Onions

[chook-in-eire]

Hi there,
would anyone have a few walking onions (Egyptian onions) to spare?
I had some for a good 25 years, brought them from place to place, had them here in Ireland in a polytunnel - always the first greens of the year - but forgot they were there when I put my cockerels in the polytunnel in the midst of winter. Duh.
Happy to pay or swap for some nice seeds etc.
Thanks,
Ute

[andrew curr]

iv got some
my friend has better ones
send me a postpack
i dont think quarantine will let you send me anything
is there a traditional use for hawthawn wood>?

[pebble]

Please don't send things internationally unless you know it is definitely ok (I say this from a county that sprays whole areas with pesticides from airplanes when we get new foreign organisms here). Biosecurity matters.

Ute, have you asked on the UK permie forum?

[chook-in-eire]

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for replying! Excuse poor ignorant Irish peasant, umh, what's a postpack and how does one send it? Do you mean something like a prepaid package?
Are you saying you can send stuff out but I can't send anything life ag related in (I know Australia has very strict rules)?

re hawthorn wood (Crataegus): yes, indeed our friend Gabriel Casey (Lisdoonvarna) makes wonderful rustic chairs out of hawthorn and blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). I think in the past the wood was also used for walking sticks and such. Why do you ask?

[chook-in-eire]

Ute, have you asked on the UK permie forum?

To be honest, I don't know that one. Where is it? I have asked on the Permaculture Ireland facebook page but no joy.

Thanks.

[pebble]

http://www.permacultureforum.org.uk/

It's not as busy as this one, but there are some solid permies there.

[chook-in-eire]

Thanks Pebble.