Ross Reid wrote:
"Stan Goodman" wrote:


On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 05:58:13 UTC, bluebubble30
opined:

Help!!

I bought some red onion sets and planted them a couple of months a goand they were going great. Now I have noticed they have flower buds atthe top of one of the stalks. Have they bolted or is this natural?

Never grown these onions before so not sure what to expect.

Any advice greatly received!

That's what onions do. They are not bolting. Snip off the buds, however, and
put them in the wok (call them "Lily Buds"). You don't need them to put
their effort into making seeds.



Unfortunately, while that's true for garlic, it is not true for
onions. Onions are biennial and, if the onion sets were too big when
harvested they think they've finished their first year. When they're
planted again they think they are in their second year and send up a
flower stalk.

This could happen also in the first year if the onions has been exposed
to cold conditions.
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