Flowering onions

[tootles]

Please can someone help!
My onions, which were planted out as sets last autumn, are starting to flower. They have large leaves but are small underground. I would assume that this was not a good thing and should chop off the flowering stalks. Is this terminal, have I lost the lot?
Any advice gratefully recieved!!!
Tx

[Two_Sheds]

Well, I would usually suggest using the Search button, as there have been loads of recent posts about this, but I'll just get the pea stick if I do, so I won't.

[jacob marley]

This happens a lot with onion sets i tend to grow from seed you do get the odd one flowering but not as many as with sets .
A lot of mine flowered last week and some of the march planted ones from this years crop so you are not on your my advice pull the ones up that are flowering and use them some how even if you only through them at the post man jacob

[stanhol]

Ahhhhhhhhh, so the flowering is nota good thing then! Thanks for that!

We have been using the odd one as spring onion material anyway while waiting for mine to grow! So should i harvest them before they flower? I assume they taste yuk oce they have flowered?

I guess its a god opportunity to try and save some seed!

Sandra

[rustylady]

Pinch or cut off the flower head as soon as you spot it - each plant only produces one. The leaves and bulbs should carry on growing and you can either use as spring onions or leave them till they're a bit bigger. Main problem is that they won't store overwinter. Flowering doesn't affect the taste at all, just the bulbs go soft and unuseable.