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Hi Everyone,
My Elephant Garlic looks like it is starting to flower. Should I pinch off the flowers, leave them alone, lift the garlic or anything else?!

Also have a couple of Japanese overwintering onions (Senshu) that look like they have bolted, what should I do with them?

Not sure about the former, eat the latter.

so garlic is ready to be picked when it flowers  ???

Pull the flowers off asap and then wait for the foliage to start to die down before harvesting.

For the onions cut out the shooting bit. Use the cut off bit like a spring onion tasty. In fact my men at lottie say they use winter onions as spring ones and don't bother to plant onion seeds as they take too long. I take what my informers say to be total truth they are a mine of info.