Bolting onions?

[Vince G]

I've just been up the lottie to water tonight after work, and there a number of minoret shaped pods on top of several of my onions (on both red and white). I've never encountered this before. These are over-wintered onions, by the way, and I don't tend to water them too often as I heard that was a bad idea. Anyone got any thoughts?
I've nipped all said pods off.

[wildside]

yer a few of mine are like this too and i also nipped the pods off i would have thought they would be ready to harvest by now too

[Vince G]

a few of mine are about the size of a snooker ball, so probably usable and I'm told over-wintered onions don't store so well. necks are still quite fat though. might harvest a couple and stick them on the shelving in the polytunnel, see how they dry out

[zazen999]

They won't store at all, the ones that flower, pick and use as soon as you can. The longer you leave it the thicker the stalk inside. Which basically reduces the better useable 'normal' bit of onion, although the stalk is edible as it gets bigger it gets less appealing/more woody.

[donnakebab]

I thought they weren't supposed to be harvested until the leaves go yellow.

I pulled a couple of heads off mine too on Sunday.

[zazen999]

I thought they weren't supposed to be harvested until the leaves go yellow.

I pulled a couple of heads off mine too on Sunday.

Not overwintering onions that flower...these need to be eaten up asap. They won't store and by the time the leaves go yellow you will have forgotten which flowered and which didn't and lose them to stem rot or the middle will be so big there will be no onion left.

[Kaiya]

I didn't think you needed to dry them either? I treated mine like huge spring onions - eat them wet.

[Snadger]

Some of my garlic are throwing up 'scapes' which are supposedly a delicacy in stir fries etc. Unlike onions theses aren't supposed to be detrimental to the plants growth.
I might pick a few today and give them a try!Garlic scapes that is not onion scapes.

[Paulieb]

A few of my overwintered Sensheyu oninos have bolted, and as soon as I see that flower spike coming they get pulled up, and used as a big fat spring onion. About 5 out of 60 have bolted so far in the last few weeks.

Troy sets have been fine so far though.....fingers crossed.