barbarajohnson wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:42 pm
Thank you for all the advice! The leaves are starting to fall over now
It occurred to me that my notes are a bit ambiguous and maybe confusing.
It might be an advantage to you if I go into a bit more detail.
To start with I have no idea where you are, so I am presuming somewhere in the UK.
There are two seasons for planting/sowing onions, autumn and spring.
Then there are two ways of growing onions, planting sets or sowing seed.
I grow autumn onions to get early ones to replace those left in store which are going soft and shooting like mad. Then the spring sown ones take over and last (hopefully) until about now, when it all starts all over again.
I have just harvested my autumn planted set onions that I planted on 1st of October in my polytunnel.
If your's are autumn set onions grown outdoors then they will be that much later to harvest and autumn sown seed a bit later still.
My spring planted sets are just starting to swell (also in the polytunnel) and will be another 6 weeks or so before they are ready (even though they look like they are falling over), so again if yours are spring sown/planted outdoors you can add a few more weeks to that timing.
In the photo below you can see what I mean by "fat" leaves of the ones that flower. I'm allowing these to flower so that I can harvest the seed to sow next October.
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These are the harvested ones that didn't flower that are drying off in the barn.
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... and these are some of the (mid February) spring planted ones that are yet to fill out.
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Hope that helps.