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🧅When to Harvest Onions? In a given season, the earliest onion harvests are from the overwintering types which are ready in late May followed by spring sown sets in July and finally spring sown seeds in August. What signs to look for? You will know when onions are nearing harvest time when you see the foliage start to lean over as shown in the image above. Once about 33% of onion stems have fallen, you can push over the rest by hand. The reason for manually pushing over onions is that it causes