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    I've never grown garlic and onions before. planted a bed of white and red onions and garlic in October/November..They are looking good but have started to produce flower bud in teh last few days. Is this normal? Should I leave it or cut it off?

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    They are bolting. You need to cut the flowering bit off or it will be woody and hard inside the onion. A lot of us are havin this problem this year. I am now pulling my bolted ones and using them. Do a search for bolting onions and you will find lots of info

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    • #3
      thank you!

      the weird weather is causing quite a lot of stuff to bolt. My new batch of chard has bolted and was only a few inches high..

      just off to chop them now

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      • #4
        Cut them off, chop them up and add them into a stir fry!

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        • #5
          My onion's did the same I pulled them up, chopped them and blanched them for later use, I have quite a few small bag's of onions in the freezer now.
          Alternatively you could let one go to seed for your next crop!

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          • #6
            I'm glad it's not just me who is having trouble with onions. I thought I'd not looked after them properly this year.

            I nipped all the seed heads off yesterday and will begin pulling when I have run out of shop bought at home.

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            • #7
              I chopped the flower stalks into last night's salad

              very tasty, if a bit tangy

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              • #8
                Some of my over wintered White Onion sets are bolting and one of my shallots, not sure what to do :-(

                Pulled the onions to use like large spring onions.

                Any advise welcome :-)

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                • #9
                  Mine did that every year-so now I plant out sets in March and I'm getting better results!

                  garlic- touch wood- this year is fine...so far!
                  Last edited by Nicos; 03-06-2010, 09:43 AM.
                  "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                  Location....Normandy France

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                  • #10
                    Mine usually bolt every year (never seem to have much look with onions), but this year out of 500 we have only had 1 or 2 bolt!!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jillyreeves View Post
                      Some of my over wintered White Onion sets are bolting and one of my shallots, not sure what to do :-(

                      Pulled the onions to use like large spring onions.

                      Any advise welcome :-)
                      funnily enough it was my white onions which bolted, the red and 'normal' ones are fine.

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                      • #12
                        My overwintered Brown (normal) and Red Onion Sets are fine too.

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                        • #13
                          Some types of garlic are meant to flower and I grow them particularly for that reason as I love the scapes

                          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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