shallots and seed tops (could apply to onions)
 

My experience with the onion family is just chives. They all have beautiful
lavendar seed tops. I'm trying to grow shallots this year. I planted the
bulbs in March (zone 6b) and they are growing beautifully. They are all
producing seeds on their top stalk. I don't want the seeds to fall into my
limited vegetable gardening area. Would it hurt the plant and the crop if I
cut the seed tops off?

On another note, I have 3 onions that I didn't harvest last year and they
have grown enormously with, again, seed tops on the main stalk. If the
seeds fall, won't onions grow from those seeds?

~tom