[sheridal]

I am in the process of setting up automatic watering for my veggie plants as we are going on holiday this next week for nearly 3 weeks. Shoul I put my leaky hose over my onion bed? The onions are starting to droop over and I could do without using all my hose on the onion bed.  So I thought about setting it up and missing most of the onions, hoping that they will have dried up and be ready for lifting when I return.

Any thoughts??

[Salmo]

If the onions are starting to fall over you should not be watering them anyway. If they have all fallen over by the time you go I would be inclined to lift them out of the ground and either leave them there to ripen or rig up some sort of a wire frame to let the air under them.

[Aunt Sally]

Leave them to dry and ripen !

[sheridal]

They are only just starting to fall oer, but are still very green, if that is any help.

[DD.]

Once they do that - that's it!

The least water the better now.