Wild onions
In the "you learn something new every day" department: I was mowing our lawn for the first time yesterday with our shiny new push mower (side note: nothing makes you feel like an adult like buying and using a lawn mower) and I noticed a distinct oniony smell. It turns out that over half of our backyard is populated with wild onions. They haven't flowered yet so I can't be sure, but I'm reasonably certain that they are Aliium unifolium [usda.gov PDF]. The wild onion is apparently pretty hard to get rid of since you need to dig out the bulbs to make sure it's really gone. I don't know how to feel about this: it's somewhat cool to have this wild vegetable that sustained native americans growing free in my yard but sometimes I just want to go on my back porch, drink some coffee and not smell onions, you know?