Bolting onions

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Bolting onions
« on: June 20, 2010, 10:20 »
Please help.
I am going down the allotment this morning, but want to arrive with info on what to do with my onions. They have shot up well from sets, but are showing no signs of fattening and are all growing seed heads. Is this normal? Surely seeds come later. Can I just cut off the heads and hope to put more of that wasted energy into the body?

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Re: Bolting onions
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2010, 10:37 »
Just read a bit on a different forum. Better go and nip the heads out straight away and hope for the best. (might save a late forming one for next years's crop.) Does this sound right?

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Re: Bolting onions
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2010, 12:55 »
Hi and welcome to the forum :)
Yes nip the tops out, but the onions that do send up a flower stem tend not to store very well :(

You can't really save onions to replant next year, unless you mean shallots...which you can split and replant. IMO it is really not worth the risk of replanting possibly diseased material when the cost so little to buy anew ;)

I'll move this into the Grow Your Own part of the forum. why don't you post again in the Welcome section and tell us a little bit about yourself and your veg plot.

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Re: Bolting onions
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2010, 14:32 »
Hi, I just meant saving the seeds from a head which I let mature. Theyre done now, thanks.



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