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I plated wallflowers in an onion bed in September.however the onion sets are sprouting now will they be edible?it may sound a daft question .
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The wallflowers will compete with the onions for space, water and nutrition..
They won't poison them if that's what you're concerned about - plants don't work like that, and anyway wallflowers are a brassica, like cabbages and cauliflowers.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If it's just a straggler onion from last year, let it flower. The bees will love you for it.
There is about 30 of them.i just wondered if they would come to anything. If not I will let them flower.
The time we eat an onion is at the end of its first full season. They are building up the strength to flower. Although they are probably just still fit to eat, they are probably best left to flower now. If they are sets that you have planted this year, they will be better on their own, separate from the wallflowers.
I was thinking that they were the hardy Japanese onion sets that you plant in the autumn ......... of course, if they're just stragglers left from last year I'd pull them out ....... but 30 stragglers is a lot
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.