A shallot started growing in the vegetable drawer in the fridge. I saw it probably wouldn’t taste any good anyway, so put it in a tiny vase on the window sill and let it grow. Maybe I’d get some onion greens from it.

It didn’t produce much greens. But the roots it grows are fascinating. At first it sent out three or four white little roots, but then it abandoned all but one. All of the tangle in the vase comes from one single root that has then branched again and again.

Before I throw it out, I’ll take out of the vase and spread it out so I can see how much there is of it. I suspect I can only do that once, because once it’s out, there’s probably no way I can get it all in through the narrow neck of the vase again.