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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: lewic on December 20, 2010, 18:31:54

Title: Last years onions ok to overwinter?
Post by: lewic on December 20, 2010, 18:31:54
I havent been able to plant any onions or garlic this year due to the ground being frozen, but quite a few of the onions I planted in spring are still there - they didnt do much in the summer and I left them to go to seed, but now they have popped up again with loads of new shoots. Are they ok to overwinter or should I dig them up when I get a chance? I think they are Red Baron.
Title: Re: Last years onions ok to overwinter?
Post by: PurpleHeather on December 23, 2010, 20:25:36
Leave them............. that is the whole purpose of sewing them

Granted some may be frosted but you ainta gonna do nowt else with the land for a bit Is Ya?

Title: Re: Last years onions ok to overwinter?
Post by: saddad on December 23, 2010, 21:00:47
A stitch in time?  ;D
Title: Re: Last years onions ok to overwinter?
Post by: jennym on December 24, 2010, 02:38:59
Onions are biennial, so they tend to send up flower shoots in the second year. 2011 will definitely be their second year if they were sown in 2010. You can probably use them as young oniony green shoots in spring, but the stems and bulbs tend to get hard and unusable later on. I'd take them out, or maybe leave just a few only,