I haven't got my onions in yet but hope to get them in next week.
Are they likely to bolt being put in so late and should I cut the flower shoots out if I see them appearing please?
Any advice much appreciated.
You are not in hurry at all and bolting often happens when there has been some drastic temperature/moisture fluctuations tricking plants to flower early. So actually not rushing to plant them early..you are quite likely have less bolting onions... ;) ;D
I've grown mine from seed this year and they are still in GH..waiting to get rid of this monsoon and then planted.
They are more likely to bolt if they go in early I would have thought
Mine went in in March and have hot Sunny weather followed by cold, winds, frost and now torrentual rain
I only put the reds in 6 days ago and like yours will have a steady build up of weather and will probably turn out OK
Hang on I just remembered the British weather
PS Watch your onions growing against others on your site, they will soon catch up. :)
I planted my maincrops out last night, they'd been hardened off and I reckoned that with the little gap in the weather we had that I was as well of doing that as anything else... let mother nature water them in for me :D.. Still got a couple of trays of shallots (Prisma and Banana) coming through the propagators (jsut out into unheated GH, will plant them out in a couple of weeks....
It's reassuring knowing that others haven't planted theirs out yet. Thanks for your replies.
I tried weeding the area in preparation yesterday but it was much too muddy. I will just have to be patient but it is raining again and the forecast for tomorrow is more rain.
Kev, I don't have a lottie, just a very large garden. I don't know of anyone in my small village that grows vegetables so have no one to compare notes with.