A couple of years ago I posted on the gardening thread about getting a composter. I'll repeat it for you. I was searching on the web for one I could afford. Eventually, I went to Walmart to see what they had. I saw one I couldn't believe - it was the best model of the expensive one I had already crossed off my list since they were so expensive.
The cost was, as I remember, was $16.95. I thought that couldn't be. Under that one was one like it but from another vendor Walmart was selling, and it was $169.50.
I realized the Walmart price was a mistake. I sent an email to a lady friend of mine who was a bank Vice President before she retired. I ask her if I would get in trouble by buying that one with the wrong price. She said if they put it on there for that price, they had to sell it to me.
So, I bought it for that $16.95 price and waited to hear from them telling me it was a mistake and I couldn't have it. That never happened. Two days later, I checked that again on their website, and the price had been changed to the $169.50. I still waited to hear from them but that didn't happen. Several days later, this enormous expensive composter was delivered to my house.
To double check I wasn't charged that big amount, I went to my Walmart account and there was the charge of $16.95 for the composter.
I have absolutely no luck winning anything by buying a chance, like the lottery, but this time I actually got a break by their mistake.
This composter is a huge ball that sits on ball bearings so it can be rotated by hand to mix what is in the composter. When my son came home from England where he lives, he saw the composter and said it is so big it looks like a satellite landed in the garden.
That is my composter story.
As far as the walking onions, our start forming seed heads about July. Picking them is a good way to control spread. The heads are easy to give away as starters. The larger seed heads I peel and use like shallots. I've even thrown them peeled and whole into pickling banana pepper rings.