Two plants going to seed and how to make onions grow bigger

This is one of the broccoli plants I saved to go to seed.  The yellow flowers are starting to die off and soon there will be little pods that will have the seeds in them.

Here is a spinach plant that will soon start developing seeds.  I will put a paper bag over it and bend the plant over carefully so I don't break the plant and let the seeds fall into the bag.  I will post pictures when it is time to start collecting the seeds.  This is the same plant that was in the last post.  It is bigger now.

Here is one of the onion flowers just about ready to open.  If you look closely you can see how the skin is rippled and holding the petals inside.  Now is the time to cut if off.

 I took scissors and cut the flower off close to the bottom of the bloom stock.

Here you can see how I have started bending the tops of the onions over.  Just break/crack the tops enough to keep them from standing back up.  Now the plant will put its energy back into the onion and not the leaves or flower.