Yep. I use them just as I would chives. A little tougher texture than chives, but good flavor.

As long as your spring onions don't grow too close to the road, they are fine to eat. We also pull up the bulbs and although they are tough to peel, use them like tiny garlic cloves.

Oh - I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate these. They take over my yard every spring.

My bf and I pick them in Prospect Park in Brooklyn and totally eat them! Great for pasta sauce.

I LOVE the photos! Green is basically just a memory here, still. It's rained enough today that SOME of the snow has disappeared: I can see my entire barbecue today for the first time since December :) But the snow is scheduled to return tonight.
Had I these lovely signs of promise currently available in my back yard, I would most likely put them on the household altar!
Thanks for sharing the hope....

Check out Euell Gibbons' classic "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" for some inspiration. Soups, salad dressings, and pickling are suggested.

http://www.amazon.com/Stalking-Wild-Asparagus-Euell-Gibbons/dp/0911469036

They have good, strong flavor, but as VeryKerry mentioned, a tougher, fibrous texture. They're great in salads with other greens where their texture can be masked, but personally I wouldn't substitute them for chives when being used as a garnish by themselves.

Growing up in Indiana, these grew all over our back lawn in large quantities, despite my father's best efforts, which always made cutting the grass an unusually tearful chore for me.

i love them! i eat them as chives and pearl onions. in rustic type dishes. mmmm.

I saw them in our yard earlier today (barely little seedlings!), but they're covered with snow again as of tonight. Darn you, northern Ohio, with your capricious weather patterns!

I use them as I would chives when cooking, but not as a garnish. I haven't tried to pull them up and use the bulbs, but you bet your butt I'm going to in a week or a month or a few years when things defrost (again) around here.

Are these the same as ramps?

When I was a kid living in the country, we had these all over. My brother and I loved digging them up and eating them.

i've used them before. you can use the tops like chives, and the bottoms like..., well, onions. very difficult to clean, but tasty. wild onions are smaller than ramps. just make sure they smell garlicy/oniony to be sure you aren't eating some kind of flower bulb, they can look similar (apparently).

they may be edible, but they make the yard look awful. i pull these up laugh maniacally doing so.