"Rod Craddock" wrote in message
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"keith ;-)" wrote in message
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I have lost all but a few of my stuttgarter giant & red baron to stem
rot,
mould on top of onions were the stem is.I bent some of the stems
over &
others let die back on there own.Then left them on the surface to
dry for
week or so.After I tied them by there stems and have been keeping
them
hanging in the shed.But they have slowly deteriorated.
What have I done wrong?
They weren't dry enough - we have a problem in late summer here in N.
Wales, it's usually too wet to dry them properly outdoors and to add
insult to injury our land is infected with White Rot as well so once
the onions have reached a useable size, at the first sign of impending
rain we lift them and lay them out on a low wall in the cold
greenhouse to finish ripening. We clean them up in odd moments during
that time and string them up after several weeks. That way we keep
them until about April when we usually run out of onions.

--
Rod

My real address is rodtheweedygardeneratmyweedyisp
Just remove the weedy bits
and transplant the appropriate symbol at.

Thanks All for the advise,I will leave them to die back/dry for longer
next year before lifting .
Thanks Keith