Anything bolting for you?

[veggiechicken]

Are your veggies bolting early this year?
There have been several reports on the Vine of bolting veg so how widespread is it ?
Is it caused by the odd weather or something else?

All my onions have bolted - last year only a few did. However, they're bigger than last year! You win some.............

[Nicos]

Yep, my perpetual spinach has...and sorrel.
I keep cutting off the flower stems in the hope they'll grow more leaves at the base, but nope.....more flower stems again.

Pity cos I probably have about 30 of these plants.

[Alicante]

Red onions, more so than usual I think
Rocket as well, but that doesnt really matter as I pick off the flowers (and eat them) and the plants seem to carry on growing.
And other things just seem slow, my second sowings of beetroot and spring onions are taking ages to grow.

[scarey55]

A few of my onions have flowered but, like you VC, they are the biggest I have ever grown. The only other things are some sort of really peppery salad leaf and one of last years parsnips that I am growing for seed. I'm going to let the salad leaf go to seed because it is really VERY peppery and tasty. No idea what it is but the seed must have been at least 5 years old!

[kris1960]

Cauliflowers and chard.

[Martin H]

A few of my overwintered onions bolted, but no more than last year.
My cauliflowers "Mayflower" only got to tennis ball size, but that's an improvement on last year's golf balls.
My calabrese bolted, but I don't think it was actually calabrese seed.
So overall this year has been okay for bolting stuff.

[Jonny.D]

Spinach seedlings

[sparrow100]

My spinach has well and truly gone, and a few of the overwintered shallots flowered but that's it so far. Even the fennel seems to be behaving and I usually have bad luck with that.

[Lumpy]

All my turnips (Tokyo) are just about to start flowering, I have exactly 1 spring onion which is going to mean fisticuffs at dawn to see which one of us gets it and a couple of the over winter onions.
Everything does seem to be in slow motion though as me radish has taken 10 weeks to look like the picture on the packet.

[Stan79]

Onions, leeks, spinach - all from last year so no great loss.

[Bigmallly]

I wish I could get to the bolting stage...............Toms have gone on strike, Courgettes are keeling over, Beetroot doesn't want to germinate................think I may take up another hobby this year.

[Nannysally99]

Onions, all of them

[cariann88]

My tomatoes have grown but every time a flower appears the flower and stem of it seems to die off

I am not giving up on it coz I will get a tomato growing on the plant!

[WendyC]

Grew some "brocolli raab" as I have the space this year to try some different things. The seed must have been free from somewhere as I have never bought any. We managed one picking before the first batch flowered, then the second batch flowered before I had chance to pick. I guess it prefers the cooler ends of the year. Anyway I am not losing any sleep as it was revolting and won't bother growing again.

[WilliamD]

Perpetual spinach has been bolting and looks pretty unleafy now. And about a third of the onions, both overwintered and spring planted, have bolted, but the consolation is that those flower spikes are delicious.