It's an old wives tale!!! Let them fall over on their own and you will get bigger bulbs. [ Watch what you say about OLD PEOPLE on this forum you are out numbered ] L.O.L
YOPPER

If it's large onions you grow, we always pulled the dirt away from the top of them when they got a pretty good size to get them larger. This was my dad's instructions so I can't promise it worked but we did raise some large onions.

Nancy

Thanks and I'm older (62) also and I will be respectful of my elders.

I won't be stomping anymore

They fall over on their own?? I'm a newbie and planted some onion sets and was wondering what animal (neighbor's cat?) had gotten into my garden and mashed some of them down... So I guess I won't consider them ruined after all!

Mine are falling over as well, at first I thought some animal had laid down in the onion bed but each day this week more and more were on the ground. My question is now what? Do I pull them now or wait til they brown?