Thats an old wives tail . Do not bend the tops down unless the onions are mature and you want them to cure them for storage. Bending the tops STOPS the onions growth.
YOPPER

gee i was tempted to say that if you drove your car over them imagine how well they'd do! anybody using a backhoe to pull their onions must drive on them... no? ;^) come on yopper, come clean!!!! LOL!

tom

Ok Tom I'll fess up. Last year when I used the back hoe to get them onions out of the ground I was digging out the candy and wasn't watching too close I run over one of them dang ACE and you know their kinda pointy on top and I blowed out the front tire on the back hoe !!Now to get back to reality my onions are still green and standing strait up and growing. Some real biguns. GOOD GARDENING TO YA YOPPER

yopper,

bet that tire cost plenty!

pulled copra and candy. red wing still standing tall but i suspect in a few days they'll start falling. harvest is ok, better than i expected what with no sun and way way too much rain all during the growing season. i wonder if there's enough time to drive over the red wings? ;^)

tom

yeah pointed onion tops are hard on tires