Topic: Flowering Garlic - Help!

[ajb]

Hi Everyone,
My Elephant Garlic looks like it is starting to flower. Should I pinch off the flowers, leave them alone, lift the garlic or anything else?!

Also have a couple of Japanese overwintering onions (Senshu) that look like they have bolted, what should I do with them?

[Robert_Brenchley]

Not sure about the former, eat the latter.

[waggi]

so garlic is ready to be picked when it flowers  ???

[redimp]

Pull the flowers off asap and then wait for the foliage to start to die down before harvesting.

[Meg]

For the onions cut out the shooting bit. Use the cut off bit like a spring onion tasty. In fact my men at lottie say they use winter onions as spring ones and don't bother to plant onion seeds as they take too long. I take what my informers say to be total truth they are a mine of info.