"Stephen" wrote
I forgot to ask, I found this morning that some of the leaves were
bent over and the stems broken. Should I wait and see if they recover
or just remove them and use them now?

Can I harvest them early to use or does the texture and flavour
develop later?

Could they have been bent by an animal visiting in the night? Do
dogs/cats/foxes sit or lie on onions; I would have thought the smell
would have deterred them? I am puzzled what has caused this.


It happens, could be anything including the weight of the stem. I just
harvest them at the same time as the rest when the bulb has reabsorbed the
goodness from the stem and that has then withered and gone brown. It's
getting to the time when all the stems will start to flop over anyway.

Of course some of ours are looking poorly, flopping over and going brown and
in our case it's guaranteed to be White Rot causing it, they all go in the
council tip. Lost over half our French Grey Shallots so far, about 10 garlic
and a few onions, there will be more.



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Regards.
Bob Hobden.
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