I noticed a few of my onions are setting tops for flowers should I just pick them? they aren't very big bulbs yet.
Or should I just let them flower?
Or should I just let them flower?
If they are flowering they probably won't bulb right. You could cut the bolt off and hope for the best or pull them and use them as green onions/scallions.
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Yeah, they shouldn't bloom until late in the season when the onion is large. They're trying to go to seed for some odd reason.
ok thanks, its just a few of them so I will go ahead and pull them out. 
Just bend/break off the flowering top. They should stay alive and continue to grow.
interesting tidbit.. all of the ones that bolted were red onions.
You should pull the ones blooming and use them for green onions. If you'll notice the center bolt that actually grows up to make the bloom will be growing all the way through the onion head to the very bottom. If you let the onion grow and mature and then harvest them later this seed stalk will cause the onion to rot almost instantly. When you cut up the onion you'll be able to see the stalk that I'm talking about.
This is what my Grandad taught me to do.
Put out sets on Good Friday and bend over the tops on Memorial Day. ????????????
Always had a great onion crop, so I do it.
All I ever learned, worth knowing, was from Grandpa and Dad. (RIP)
bend over the tops? should I start bending them over and tying them down this weekend?
I know the thick stalk you're talking about, some of them had one some of them didnt. I broke a couple of the smaller ones off just to see what happens. I planted something like 200 onion sets I did not expect all of them to live.... most of them have. I will have no shortage of onions LOL I use the green stalks for chives, just cut them off and use them fresh or dehydrate for storage. They work great.
