[sarajane]

My shallots are nearly at the point of cropping but onions very very behind.

We did however dig up our garlic the other day and so glad I did.  They were all starting with a little rot at the bottom but a good scrub and they now look fine but feel if they had been left in much longer we would have lost them all

[AnneB]

With the weather as wet as it is this year, are people leaving their onions for the usual ten days after bending them over to fully mature or are folkslifting them and drying them off straight away?

I believe that although it is a common practice, it is not advisable to turn over the tops of onions before you harvest them as it greatly increases the risk of rot in storage. Or so Joy Larkcom says in her Grow your own vegetables book.  She knows an awful lot about growing veg so I am following her advice.

[Nikkithefoot]

I dug my overwintering onions a few weeks back now as they were looking decidedly manky. The tops hadn't bent over but they were going kind of mouldy. I have to grow them under netting to stop the critturs eating them, I guess it was a bit humid under there! 
I would rather have a smaller onion that I can use rather than one that rots in the ground. Garlics came up a week later. All are drying in the greenhouse now. I have had to dispose of a few onions that have started to rot.

[Ivor Backache]

I don't grow garlic , so cannot comment.
The last two years I have harvested onions early to reuse the land. The necks were still thick and dispite drying out I always had neck rot. So this year, I am leaving mine out to die down properly.  My main crop onions are way behind.
They are bi-annuals, so should be able to cope with the weather.

[shokkyy]

I thought my onions were very late because they've only just started to bulb up, but when I looked back at my log I realised I didn't lift my onions last year till the end of August, so they're really not as late as I was thinking, maybe not at all.

[Auntiemogs]

I'd harvest the garlic now or the skin may start to rot away like it did to mine last year. I dug mine up a week ago and gave it a good scrub to clean the bulbs up and it's now in my attic room drying nicely.

Snap! 

Double snap!  Only my Solent Wight though.  Had a quick furtle and found that the stems were starting to rot beneath the surface. Lautrec and Elephant still ok.  Had to harvest my onions because of the same problem....

[davesellars]

Not sure what to do still with my garlic.  I sowed them at the end of February.  Now the leaves are half yellow and drying but a few weeks from completely drying out I think?  The soil is pretty soggy though so i'm worried about them rotting.  I'm keeping fingers crossed a few weeks no rain - fat chance of that though
I've pulled up a couple of garlic that had tiny stems to have fresh and the bulbs were a reasonable size (for the size of the stem that is) but have not split into cloves.   Do they split eventually?

My onions need another month though I think although a few have bolted that i'm going to use using fresh.

I have fantastic banana shallots that have grown to a really decent size!  I think they are almost ready for harvesting now   :-)  I will definitely be growing these again next year...

[tadpole]

I've harvested my shallots and garlic, as the slugs are eating the leaves

[brokenglass]

Lifted the last of my rusty Garlic yesterday one of the very few large bulbs had every single individual clovs throwing up a shoot!     Does anyone know why this is or is it just this great Summer that we are not enjoying?     

Worse Summer I have ever endured and the crops are suffering very badly in fact nearly as much as me!