Growing Onions

[EcclesCake]

My onion sets of gone straight to flower without the bulb developing.

Is this due to the lousy weather or a bad batch of sets.

[Maydup]

Not sure but you should snip all the flowers off and let the goodness go down to the bulbs. They might recover yet.

[HowardKennitby]

according to this you should have removed any stems as soon as they appeared

http://www.northwest-...vegetables/onions.asp

[EcclesCake]

OK, thanks for that.

I've never had trouble with them running to seed before or at least not until much later in the season. They've been in a good while and there has been somewhere between no and little development on the onion itself.

[Clanad]

You may have fertilized them with a high nitrogen mix... which will cause fast flowering... just step on them to break them over and they'll still develop the bulb.