Same here, but I have pulled mine up, regardless of size. Better luck to us next year.

I had several hundred and many of my Dixondale onions were tiny. I planted them anyway and it was good because half died. Then it rained. I pulled them before the last rain and they are indoors drying out. Most are no bigger than golf ball size. A quarter of the remaining bolted.

I've had better luck starting my own per your timing instructions. I won't have as much space next year so that's exactly what I'm going to do starting this fall. They are simply bigger and stronger. I guess it depends on the variety. I think it was spanish that I started from seed.

mine are still out there. The are slowly being covered by weeds :( havent had time between the downpours to get to them. Looks like about 75% have fallen. Ill probably pull them tonight or tomorrow. None look near the size they should be. most are baseball or smaller which is good enough for me.

It has been an odd year for onions. I planted 5 varieties and each of them reacted to the excessively wet weather in its own way. I pulled them without waiting for the leaves' necks to weaken and the leaves to fall over and begin turning yellow. I did this because all of them had fungal issues at some point, likely because we had 33+" of rain in May alone and that's just too much rainfall for onions growing in amended clay even when they are in raised beds. I just harvested the last two varieties last week right before our recent big bout of flooding began last week (not to be confused with our most recent but less intense flooding this week).

I got all sizes of onions, from some that never really got bigger than scallions to some that were at least softball sized.

I have a theory about why our onions have stubbornly sat there in the ground and refused to finish up and show they are ready for harvest. Here it is:

Normally, with average moisture and average fertility, as the onions approach maturity, they begin pulling in the carbs from the leaves. This leads to a dual result---the onions grow larger and the leaves begin to shrivel and turn tan or yellowish, get weak at the necks and fall over. When the neck is very thin and the leaves are mostly all lying on the ground, we know the bulb is nearing maturity and we can pull the onions and cure them for long-term storage (as well as eating them, of course).

When the onion roots are clogged with water, the bulbs cannot pull in the carbs from the leaves. We know that happens. So, my theory is that since the onions have been too waterlogged to pull in the carbs, they are just sitting there, more or less in a suspended state of growth. Without the carbs being pulled in from the leaves, the carbs are trapped there in the leaves and nothing is growing larger (bulbs) or shrinking (leaves). Hence, the onions just sit there, looking the same, seemingly stalled and failing to progress.

I considered leaving those last two varieties in the ground, but with the anticipated flooding for us last week (which did occur), I decided to pull the last two varieties. They all had fungal spots on their leaves and I couldn't see they were visibly enlarging any more at all, nor were the leaves withering. Fearing more disease and rot if I left them, I pulled the last ones out as raindrops began falling on my head. Y'all know the rest----it flooded like here last week, followed by new flooding Sunday after some mostly-unexpected rainfall (the amount of rain was unexpected, but we did have a chance of rain that day). I feel like pulling them saved them from rotting.

In a way, I would have liked to leave them in the ground longer to see if they ever came out of the stall on their own, but I need them when I'm making and canning salsa, so didn't want to risk losing all those onions.

This has been a very perplexing year in general, but probably more so with the onions that with anything else. I have had trouble with some onions rotting during some excessively wet periods in other years and, to be honest, I wouldn't have been surprised if I lost every single onion plant this year. It takes roughly 20" of rain falling during an onion plants' life in order for the onions to reach their greatest potential size. Mine (depending on how early they were harvested) received between 35-45" of rain during their time in the ground here, so I am just pleased to have onions at all. The yield was greatly reduced but since I always overplant, I think we'll have plenty.

My Dixondale Candis are still in the ground, they won't fall over. I think I need to pull them , regardless.

It was a terrible year for my Red Candis, very few made it through the spring. And my Texas 1015Y never really bulbed , they were small on the whole.

Makes me think I go with nothing but Candis next year.

Candy was probably my best performer overall too, but it was strictly weather-related, as we so much rain that all the varieties struggled just to stay alive, much less to grow. I had to plant late because it was so insanely wet that I thought the onions would die if I planted on time, so they all got off to a late start, which was really hard on the short day onions as it compressed their growing into a much shorter time frame. Texas Legend performed well considering the combination of late planting and incredibly wet weather, but Candy performed better. Red River was my best red onion, but they were so tremendously waterlogged by the 25+" of rain that fell in May that they stalled and never really resumed growth. Highlander performed in a really spotty manner---either the onions rotted completely or they made baseball to softball-sized onions. Unfortunately, too many rotted. My 1015Ys were just pitiful too, suffering as well from really late planting and really waterlogged soil. This is one of those years where the raised bed didn't help enough. Red Candy hasn't done as well for me as other reds, so I stopped growing it and didn't even plant it this year.

Because so many onions rotted this year, I am going to plant my onions for the next 2 or 3 years as far away as possible from this year's onion bed, fearing the rot diseases now may reside in the soil. Wherever I decide to plant them, I'm going to raise that raised bed even higher than it is now. The only raised bed that was high enough to grow root crops without them rotting was the potato bed which is about 20" tall and lined with hardware cloth to keep the voles out. I might grow the onions in that bed next near but, if I do, I'll have to build a new potato bed and line it with hardware cloth to exclude voles, or I'll have to skip growing potatoes at all. I was hoping all the flooding would drown the voles, but that didn't happen.

My garlic is just now forming scapes as the garlic plants have been in the same sort of stall as the onions. Usually by now I have harvested all my garlic, and this year there's not any of it yellowing and dying back yet. I'm starting to wonder if I'll have to harvest the garlic the same way as the onions----without waiting for the leaves to die back. It has been a hard year for alliums. My ornamental alliums didn't even sprout and bloom, and they've come back in the same place for 15 years, so I fear they died and rotted as well.

I just pulled the last of my onions because they looked so badly, also there are a couple of watermelon plants in the bed that I wanted to give the room to.

Nothing other than grasshoppers is doing well in my garden.

Larry, Oh no. You must have the kind of grasshopper infestation we had last year. It was the worst year here for hoppers in a long time. They aren't bad here yet, and I hope our luck holds. I'm wondering if the flooding washed a lot of them away. It seems like something good should come out of the flooding we've endured for so long here. I'd be satisfied if the payoff from the flooding is fewer grasshoppers, or would be deliriously happy if it means less snakes. After the heavy flooding in 2007, we saw very few snakes for about 12-15 months. It was the most wonderful year ever since we moved here.

Dawn