"Pip" wrote in message
I planted some onion sets last year. After going away on holiday for two
weeks in summer, they had completely dried up, the green leaves were
yellow
and dried out so I just left them in the ground. They are now coming back
to life. The size of the onions themselves now are a little bigger than
the
sets I planted last year.

Should I keep them in the ground to develop or is it best to dig them up
and
start a fresh? They don't seem diseased at all.

The same applies to the garlic I planted last year, though I have heard
that
you can keep garlic in the ground year after year - is this right?


The Garlic will come up again in clumps and will be OK although I've not
seen it grow so big as when it's separated. There's no reason why you
couldn't separate the individual plants anyway.
The onions will probably bolt (flower) and will not be much good, certainly
won't store if they do. There are still some onion sets in the shops so I
would suggest you plant some more to be on the safe side.

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Regards
Bob

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