Thanks everyone. This has been a tough winter with the wild temperature swings I have had to cover my winter crops more than any year since I started gardening and even with the good hoop covers I lost a lot to freezing. This was the best winter ever for some things like spinach and rutabagas; but the worst for lettuce.
Worth it never stayed warm enough long enough for onions to bolt. All of my winter lettuce, my cilantro and some of my spinach have all started going to seed. I thought during that worst cold spell that I had lost my nest onions but after a week of looking like they would die from freezing they perked back up and did better than ever. None of my onions were ever covered but I didn't set out the Bermuda onions until after the worst of the cold. The worse they had to survive in the ground was around 24 or so and it didn't bother them.
Bill
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