Help! my onions are beginning to bolt.

[solway cropper]

I've grown onions from sets for years and a percentage always bolt. This year was the first time I've grown overwintered ones and half a dozen of the forty or so planted have bolted. As Snadge says, it's been a very funny year weather wise so the onions are probably just as confused as we are. Never let one bad year put you off growing something. Wait till you get three in a row then figure it's nature's way of trying to tell you something.

[Snadger]

I know its not easy and that not everyone has the room, but it does pay to mix and match.
I grow loads in the hope of cropping a few.
I grow autumn sets and seeds, spring sets and seeds,red onions,shallots, long onions, short onions.........you get the picture?
If a certain batch fall by the wayside you can bet your bottom dollar another batch will surpass everything you expected from them!

[Curlykale]

I presume the advice is the same for shallots that have thrown up seed heads?

[kate&rob]

i have grown red and brown, all from sets from wilkinsons. all but a few of my reds have bolted this year but the others, touch wood, haven't. seems that my reds have been very tempremental!

[rustylady]

It happens to all sorts. They haven't liked the weather this year.

[Nykied]

My onions are still tiny.

What about the rest of the packet of sets that I still have left over from spring? Will they be okay for planting in the autumn or am I better just getting another packet?