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Onions

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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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    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.





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    If it's just a  straggler onion from last year, let it flower. The bees will love you for it.

  • Tony65Tony65 Posts: 19

    There is about 30 of them.i just wondered if they would come to anything. If not I will let them flower.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    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.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    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 image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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