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legless

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onion confusion
« on: May 16, 2004, 20:00:56 »
2 of my onions have producd flower heads. does this mean something has gone wrong and the rest will too or should i expect 2 out of 120 ish onions to bolt?

thanks in advance

tim

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Re:onion confusion
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2004, 20:53:01 »
Presumably autumn sown - just take the heads off. The rest may be OK. No telling why. = Tim

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Re:onion confusion
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2004, 21:23:56 »
A few of my autumn onions have flowered as well, just like Tim said I have pinched out the flowers and am hoping they will continue to grow - I haven't a clue as to why they have flowered.

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Re:onion confusion
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2004, 10:23:59 »
Not from experience, but Mr. Flowerdue says that they should be ok to eat, but won't store as well, so use them first.

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Re:onion confusion
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2004, 07:27:12 »
thank you all!

since its only a couple i'm going to let them flower to see what they look like!


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Re:onion confusion
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2004, 18:48:25 »
Onion flowers are rather pretty - have an ornamental allium in the border with purple flowers  ;D
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Re:onion confusion
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2004, 19:59:29 »
As said - any onion that has a flower stem will not store. = Tim

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Re:onion confusion
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2004, 22:35:44 »
but i'm sure the bees will like it.....

i have planted about 120 so i think a loss of 2 isn't too bad, the rest are monsters - i hae no idea what variety - i think perpetual allotment variety that is grown for size! one a week will do us!

 

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