Hello. I live near Dallas TX and planted onion sets in March in a mature, raised bed. I was able to harvest and eat some of the 1015 sweet onions but the red onions wasn't worth bothering with. As an experiment I left some of the onions in the garden to stalk and flower. These flowers produced seed pods, dried out and have since produced small sets about 6-8" tall where the seed pods fell. It's now November 20 and I've harvested my fall crop of other vegetables and the only thing left are these mature, segmented bulbs from spring and these new sets. I'd like to have onions again in the spring. Should I leave them in the ground as is, dig them up and transplant now or dig them up and transplant in the spring? If I dig them up for spring, how do I care for them over the winter?
Hello. I live near Dallas TX and planted onion sets in March in a mature, raised bed. I was able to harvest and eat some of the 1015 sweet onions but the red onions wasn't worth bothering with. As an experiment I left some of the onions in the garden to stalk and flower. These flowers produced seed pods, dried out and have since produced small sets about 6-8" tall where the seed pods fell. It's now November 20 and I've harvested my fall crop of other vegetables and the only thing left are these mature, segmented bulbs from spring and these new sets. I'd like to have onions again in the spring. Should I leave them in the ground as is, dig them up and transplant now or dig them up and transplant in the spring? If I dig them up for spring, how do I care for them over the winter?