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Originally Posted by jmsieglaff
You're garden looks great! As far onions, I harvest mine usually in July. When the tops start to fall over is when they are ready. You want to avoid watering them the week leading up to harvest. Obviously mother nature can't be controlled with that respect, so if they are close to being ready and we have a lot of rain in the forecast I'll occasionally harvest them even before the tops fall. I tie mine in bunches and hang them in the garage to cure for a few weeks before remove the tops, trimming the root hairs and putting them in the basement for storage.
I see seed stalks forming on your onions, you'll want to cut those off ASAP toward the base of the seed stalk. Any onions that are sending up seed stalks may not keep as well as the ones that do not. I used to plant sets (the little bulbs) or purchased plants and always had a fair number go to seed. I've begun starting onions from seed myself and that problem as gone away.
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Good to know. I'll trim them tonight!