Onion advice

We recently lost my father in law and he had several rows of onions on his veg plot which has got very weedy. 'Helpful neighbour' told mum in law she needed to get them out the ground coz they were starting to flower, she's got herself in a flap because she wants to make the most of the veg he put in, it's a link with him if you know what i mean, so we've gone up today pulled them all, only for 'helpful neighbour' to come out and tell us that we should have left them in

So we've dug all the weeds out and i've layed them on the soil.

Is there any thing we can do to stop them rotting, would we be better to cut the green tops off them and leave them in the greenhouse to dry?

Was it a problem that they were getting flowers?

We're really annoyed about this, wish i'd had time to look it up the book first.

Some advice would be really appreciated X

 

Thanks for that John, needed a bit of good advice as felt a bit stupid :dh:

I think mum in law just misunderstood

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