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Question is will they continue to grow?
Should we just dig up the garlic to save it or leave it to ripen a bit more?
What's the prognosis?
I have seen people bend over the green tops and tie each one with raffia, probably this will be for the same purpose of stopping top growth and encouraging the bulbs to grow but is much more fiddlyIt would avoid the rain getting in though.
My mate on the lottie bends his onions, he says he used to do it when he worked on the farms in Ireland, he says it feeds the bulb somehow.
How do you tell when your onions are ready for harvesting?My over wintered Red and white onion's foliage is starting to flop over on its own - does this mean its ready to be lifted? ???
Also when they run to seed do they grow a rather larger stork which looks completely different from the other foliage? (taller and fatter - with a seed head on top) On these storks I cut off the head as close as possible, does this mean that these onions have tried to go to seed and the bulbs will no longer grow/swell?