Kinda depends on where you are. Once the weather starts to warm up, onion bulbs and garlic, and other alliums are ready to be harvested. I'm in zone 7, and I have one variety of garlic already yellowing and falling over - within the next week or so, I'll be harvesting. By the end of June, I'll have harvested all of my onions and garlic planted last fall. Unless your soil is just extremely dry and poor, once the tops start to yellow and dry out it means that variety is close to being ready for harvest.

I am in NC zone 7. Bone of my other onions or garlic have started yellowing. Can you tell me how I do the l'itoi onions to save them for bulbs to plant in the fall? Do I wait for the tops to die down and then dig, store, replant in fall? Or just divide and replant now? I have never done multiplier onions so I don't know how to save the bulbs for next year. Thanks for your help.

I have l'itoi onions too. Yours look a little crowded as mine did earlier this year. If you have larger bulbs, about penny size. You can separate those and cure them in a dry place to plant later. Those "rested" bulbs usually grow really well later. As for the smaller ones, I'd separate them into little bunches of 3 and replant them, adding and mixing in more garden soil before replanting. The reason is that the smaller ones dont store well.

I guess this is a variety used mostly for the green onions. These things have some characteristics like other bulbs you might plant in the yard. As said, a lot of the smaller ones can probably just stay put, and the will sprout again when the temperature or day length gets right. Some of the bigger bulbs can be stored in a cool dark place once they are cured (allowed to dry and tops all dry so nothing to mold). I actually use the Egyptian topsetting onions for a similar purpose, and I can keep green onions coming most of the year but the very coldest months. And any bulbs that I allow to get large enough can be harvested, about shallot size and very hot but plenty sweet when cooked, and cured to keep for a very long time. Virtually indestructible and prolific, as the topsets can be replanted for new bunches.

Yep, I grow those Egyptian topsetting onions also, mainly for the greens. I use my I'itoi for both greens and bulbs. It's a hastle cleaning those little things but one of my chores as a kid was to sometimes clean another similar small strain of onion for dinner. Now I just do it and don't usually give cleaning a second thought.

It's kinda time to pull & cure them. For the last few years mine have turned yellow around then, meaning it's their time to come up.

Theyre adapted to AZ and the beginning of May is the start of the very hot, dry time when the onions die back. It looks like yours know what time it is!

Update-i pulled and dried them. Do I cut the tops off now and store in a dry place till fall planting? Or store with tops on?

Thank you-i will let them dry some more then clip and store for fall.