What to do when ONIONS BOLT: Growing in the Garden
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Growing onions is so satisfying. However, you may not know what to do when onions bolt. Seeing flower stalks forming on your growing onions can be disheartening.
A bulb on a top center stalk of your onion means it has begun the process of flowering and making seeds. This is called “bolting” and it is bad news for onion growers.
Introduction 00:00
Why is my onion flowering? 00:27
What is bolting? 00:50
Why do onions bolt? 01:14
What do you do once onions bolt? 01:59
How do I preserve bolted onions? 02:46
Dehydrating bolted onions 03:22
Freeze drying bolted onions 03:37
How do I prevent onions from bolting next season 03:49
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In indonesia, the bolted onion which not bloomed yet called bunga bawang. It taste best to stir-fry them with garlic and some Chili's. Bunga bawang tastes little spicy similar like pepper but have a nice aroma when it stir-fry. I really recommend this!
...and oh! I do grow a scattering of onions throughout some of my vegetable beds, purposely allowing them to bolt -- the scent repels naughty pests and the bees love to visit their snowball blooms!
They are lovely and the bees are welcome visitors.
The bees do LOVE them.
Yes, I love to leave them for the bees.
The bees love them, and I love the bees.
This is what I am trying to achieve.
Me too.
I’m in Tucson. My bulb onions are fine, but all my spring onions bolted. I’ve been pulling them and throwing them on the grill. Delicious!!
Why let the bees and humming birds have food.
Then plant the seeds and try again.
@@thesilentone4024 I left them four plants, I’m saving seeds from them too, but I’m eating the majority of them.
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Another tip: Use the onion flowers. Sprinkle them into salad as herb. They can also be frozen and be used later toget a summer taste in a winter salad. I recommend also using the flower in cooking as a substitute for small cut onion pieces.
I was gonna say. onion flowers are quite tasty.
I had an olde4 friend who had a goat farm making goat cheese. And occasionally, her onions would go to flower. And eh would make special cheeses with the flowers. It was my favorite!
Gosh! It never occurred to me that the flowers could be eaten! What a lovely garnish!
You posted this a year ago, I needed it today! Thank you for all the info! 🌺
Mine are bolting right now. I have left them for the bees. Thanks for this video
That is what I did last year, the bees love them!!
My daughter planted my store bought green onions an they produced flowers! We thought it was so cool
My bolted onion is lovely. I enjoyed watching it burst out of its shell. I did get 5 onions from a half of onion I Put in a flower pot.
A lot of good information in 5 minutes. Glad I saw this. Thanks
This video couldn’t have come at a better time. I was wondering why they were bolting so early. Thanks!
Improvised Climate change response
Lol same here. Was 90° last week this week 60. You could say my onions were confused
Bryan S must be in California:)
@@toneenorman2135 sadly yes!
Bryan S I love this beautiful state. I am heartbroken at the decline it has gone through,in the last 20 years…more than just the drought, and temperature fluctuations. The “ good ol days” were really something around here..the music scene, and beautiful,astonishing nature….sigh….a life worth bringing back,if possible…
Not many videos for harvesting onion seeds. Thank you for this information.
Perfect timing, my onions here in Texas are bolting like crazy right now.
This lady knows her onions!
I'm just learning thank you for that video.
Thanks for watching
Here in California I always have at least 10% of my onions bolt in the spring/summer. Right now we’re at the end of a heat wave (96° today!) and on Monday it will be a high of 60°… so I’m guessing I’ll start seeing some lovely allium flowers soon. I just leave the ones that bolt because I like the flowers and so do the pollinators!
I would like to leave a tip for seed keeping. With onions that bolt, and keeping their seed, will ensure that the next generation are also early bolters. Intsead, try keeping seeds from only the large onions with the longest window before bolt happens. This will ensure that you have collected not only the strongest growing seeds, but also ones that resist bolting. After a couple years of keeping seeds in that fashion will yield you great results, no matter where you are.
I had some onions that bolted on me years ago. I got back at them by eating their flowers. THEY WERE DELICIOUS!!! Wonderful onion flavor. Great for salads or whatever you are cooking.
Went out this morning and 2 onions had started to bolt and then this came up on my timeline. Thank you so much for the explanation and suggestions as to how to use and store these onions. It was exactly what I needed to learn!
OMG!! There are "wild" onions everywhere around where I grew up in RI and NO ONE knew what they were because of the bolting you showed. They also smelled like a mix of onion & garlic, but no one knew. They looked very much like the ones in your video. Thank you!
From what I read the wild garlic is more like onion and wild onions are more like garlic, I am not sure what we had, they smelled and tasted like onion.
I actually like to let some of my onions bolt. The buds are used in thai cooking, and have a really delicious mild flavor. You can include a good bit of the stalk too, but harvest it before it starts blooming. I discovered this while volunteering on a farm in Texas that was run by the sweetest man, and his thai wife. She would cook for us everyday, and it was the best food I've had in my entire life. Give it a try guys, you won't regret it! They are great in stir fries, and she used them in thai soups too but I don't know the recipe. I'm sure you can find some good ones online somewhere. 😋👍
I just cooked up a bunch a few nights ago, sautéed in butter and enjoyed them very much.
I am in west central Alabama and all my onions have bolted. Like you, I am blaming the weather this year. Unseasonably warm, followed by cool weather. Tonight we are expecting a late frost--3 weeks after our average last frost date.
I have wild onions bolting all over my backyard. It smells good when the grass is mowed but ughhh it’s so many. Thanks for the video.
great video thank you!! My green onions bolted and I had no idea what was happening!
I used to plant onions using the dried looking bulb type and almost always got bolted onions. I then would buy onion plants and didn't get hardly any bolted ones. Now this year I have started onions from seed indoors. They are out in the garden now and are looking great.
The flower is so beautiful. I loved watching it bloom. I just put half an onion in a flower pot over a year ago. I just noticed the onions yesterday. I loved the leak, or chive? Not sure, but it is tasty. I love it. I have 5 onions.
Hi, I was only half-way through your concise, informative and well-presented video when I knew I must subscribe. How had I missed your channel until now? I look forward to viewing your other videos. You are a natural teacher with an excellent approach. Thank you!
Awesome, thank you!
Never realized why onions would bolt and when you snip it off that doesn't mean the onion bulb starts growing again. I always used sets in the past, now I will seed! Thanks for the info!!
Thank you for this video. This is exactly what my onions are doing and I didn't know why it what to do! I guess I will be freezing onions for the next few days.
Thank you for this information. I am in Dallas TX and we had some warm weather early this year and then went back to lower normal temps. I noticed today I have one onion that has bolted so far. Now I know what my options are. Thank you for sharing!
I live in Houston and am witnessing bolting like I have never seen before. Strange weather this year for sure. Thanks for the info!
The seed slips can be thined when planting. The larger slips lead to larger onions, the smaller slips work well for barrel planting for green onions. Also planting more varieties can leave you with a stronger crop. We plant several and the weather is the uncontrollable variable. Frosty spring leaves us with a strong crop, however a warm spring causes some varieties to bolt prematurely. Thanks for the video.
The flower head is edible and makes a great addition to salads!
Thank you for all that information - now I know why my onions grew flowers or bolted lol!!! And what to do when they do and how to use those onions instead of throwing them in the compost lol!!!
Hah, now I know I am gonna get onion seeds. So cool thanks for this video.
I’ve learnt a lot - thanks for sharing
The temps have been fluctuating here in Tucson, AZ and my onions are bolting. Didn't know what to do next till I saw your video. Thank you.
Thank you for your help🫶🏽
i picked them from a the trash when visiting family. took them planted them and watched them grow while cutting and using for store bought ramen, mine bolted googled as saw they would bloom as flowers so i kept them feeling proud of my garden. i learned more about the bolting. great info here *Thank You*
Always such timely advice! Thank you!
Thank you. You saved my first ever homegrown onion!!! It started blotting today. I knew to harvest when the stem was soft. But mine wasn't. Thanks to you, I harvested it just now and will eat it tomorrow!!
I sprinkle those and garlic flowers on my salads and other things.... good stuff.
If my onions bolt, I don't even chase after them anymore. They'll come back eventually.
Thank you Angela for this video I get my onions from Dixondale from Texas this year I plant The second week of January and now they’re bolting and they’re falling and I didn’t know what to do thank you so much it was a very helpful video I live here in Arizona in Tonopah and I believe it’s because of the heat
You answered all of my questions about onions! Thank you ❤
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have been watching my onions bolting bigger and bigger every day and have been wondering what to do about it and then never get around to actually looking it up. I'm glad I subscribed and you came up instead.
This is hilarious that I didn't see this video sooner, I am in the PHX area and my onions bolted and I had no idea why. Thanks again.
Thanks much for sharing.
Thanks. Quite helpful. I just completed sewing 100 white onion sets. Sets from Canada. I'm in the Mid-Atlantic. I should have watched this video a week ago.
Hi I am from South Africa, thank you very much for your helping me to decide what to do with my onions. I am new at planting veggies
Same here, west Texas! Mime are just starting to bolt, I maybe have 6-7 of them bolted, but everyday when I go out, it's a few more. It's the weather here too! Thank you:)
I kept seeing more each day too. Frustrating, but good to know there is an explanation for it this year. Thanks for watching!
Great video`.
I let some of my green onions, aka scallions, bolt (flower) for two reasons, my bees love them, sometimes i see two or three bees on one flower, and also for seed.
It seems that green onions flowers produce lots of nectar.
Green onions bolt when they are old and woody.
Lot of good information
This is just my third year of gardening. This happen to me last year and I had no clue what it was. Thought it was a mutant onion 😂. Somehow your channel has been flying under my radar for the past 2 years of my UA-cam gardening education. I subbed immediately after watching your wonderful, informative, and cheerful video. Looking forward to learning more with you. Thank you.
This is my first year with large onions and it was very helpful. I received these transplants from school. (I'm studying horticulture). I learn something new everyday
Horticulture? Is that the study of that guy in "Welcome Back Kotter"?
@@chasein7019 no idea
Very informative I've been gardening for years and never realized this
You answered a question I had for a long time, thanks very much!
Thank you for this video! The weather was crazy this year all mine have done the same!
Just stumbled upon your channel. Thanks for clarifying this.
Two seasons ago I grew 100 onions. I started them in the house then moved them into the greenhouse to harden off for a month before transplanting. They pretty much all bolted. I ended up giving most of them away because I didn't have room to freeze them and couldn't use them fast enough.
Perfect timing! Thank you so much!
Excellent video! Good to see you again!
Well this is the info I needed! Thanks again Angela!
Thank you Angela, well done.
I learned a ton! Thank you
Wow! I didn't know that. Thsnk you.
Excellent information thank you so much! A few of my onions have bolted so it’s good to know what to do with them ☺️
Perfect timing. Thank you
Awesome video. Thus happened to me this year and now I know why. Thank you so much. 💕
Thank you for making this video!
I have been hesitant about planting any veggies at all when the weather has been fluctuating so much lately. I guess we all have to learn to respond as we plant.
Thank you again!
Never hesitate. Any failure is a lesson on how to succeed.
Good information about Onions. Tq for sharing your knowledge.
I have learned so much from your videos.
I love the planting, the references, as well as the end use.
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I live in southern California and I've been planting with trials and errors. Your experiences has helped my understanding of their needs.
Thank you!!!
Amazing info! Thank you very much!
Thanks!
Thank you so much. I adore your videos.
I’m letting some of mine to bold because I want seeds. I’m doing the same thing for some of my lettuce and mustard.
I haven't bought mustard seed in years.
Thank you! I have transplants some of which have bolted and onion sets that I just planted a month ago (so no bolting). I guess I'll harvest my transplants
Very informative, thank you.
Thank you for this! Very informative!
Thank you this information was perfect timing I have bolted onions and wandering what to do.
Thank you
I never had much interest in gardening - but recently: I'm really enjoying these kind of videos.
Thank you for sharing ❤️
Very helpful, thank you.
Thanks for sharing. It was my question. ❤❤❤
I'm doing the same thing with leeks. Cutting the flower stalk like you do for garlic. Hoping they will get bigger for this next winter.
Great tips, thank you!
Thank you so much for your informative video. I have these wildly growing all over my yard . I use the stalks but never knew what the bolts were. I just let them blew with the wind or admire the lovely flower. Now I know. They smell like onion/ garlic. Thanks.
Great information and very timely!
Great video!!!! Thank you.
You answered a myriad of questions regarding onions. Thanks. Subscribed too.
Very informative, thank you!!
You did good!
Yes the same happened to us here in coastal Georgia and the weather has been fluctuating so much. Thank you so much for sharing
So frustrating, sorry you had it happen too!
Same thing here in TN. Thanks for a great video b
Thanks for watching!
Thank you. This was a really professional and interesting video.
Last spring, we planted out some green onions that we bought from the grocery store. I like weird seeds, so I've been waiting for them to flower. Only one of them lived, and it's *finally* starting to bloom. Guess I'll have to wait until next year to plant those seeds 🙄
I had one of these pop up in my flower bed! I had no idea what it was! lol
Thanks for sharing
I'm in England Yorkshire... And seems all the rain had caused my onions to bolt...
Been wettest dullest summer in many many years..!
Sorry to hear that. Hope things improve.
@@GrowingInTheGarden thanks
I watched 2 months ago...
had to watch again to find out why...
Pretty sure it was the British weather as planted 3 types...
Hay ho
Got a load of free seeds for next attempt
Wow, thanks. Yes that happened to me too, last year.
Thank you!!! Yes!!! Appreciate you! Take care!! 💖💐🙏🌠🌌
Great video. Many thanks!
Very good information thank you so much. Did not know they had to be used right away.
This was so helpful!! You answered the questions I had, and I learned a lot. Thank you so much!