Have just been doing a spot of weeding in the garden and I noticed some seed heads starting to appear on my onion stems. Is this normal and do I need to do anything?
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Over-wintered onions. Harvest?
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We eat chives flowers whenever they appear in the herb beds. And, to save yourself money, leave a couple of onions to go to seed heads - they're very attractive - and before they start to shoot the seeds everywhere, put a paper bag over the seeds head/s to catch them, that way you can save on seeds next year.TonyF, Dordogne 24220
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Originally posted by rana View PostIf you take out the flower stem from the bottom you can use it chopped to garnish food. I fail to understand why they are not available in the shops here, in SE Asia you can buy bunches of onion flower spikes in any market.Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.
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Over-wintered onions. Harvest? Flowers? Bolting?
Morning all!
Is anyone lifting their onions yet? A few of mine are forming flowers, which I have pinched out, but I think they could grow a little more. Perhaps they won't if they are trying to go to seed. Do grapes bend the stalks over or do they just lift and lay on the soil to dry out?
Any advice welcome. Thank you, FranLast edited by zazen999; 02-06-2009, 10:27 AM.
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Great! Good news. I'm dying to try one. So you don't need to leave them to dry? Does this mean they don't get brown skins? Are you just pinching out the little flower bud or taking out the whole stem?
Also - do you think it's too late to plant summer sets? Don't know if there are any still left in shops. Have got some red onion seedlings ready to plant out. Onions just look so good when they are growing. It's like all my crops really. I can hardly bare to dig them up!
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Autumn sown sets don't get brown skins....just use them as soon as you think they are big enough....I have 150 in so they will last me 3-4 months until my spring sown sets and autumn sown seeds are mature.
If you have sets now, bung them in - they won't get as big but it's better than throwing them away.
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