Little Weed wrote:
Hi
Braved the torrential rain and gusts of wind to visit the allotment
this afternoon. The top half had puddles of water (the rest is on a
slope ) AND my recently planted onions, which have grown quite a bit
were waving at me from the puddles
Now as a new allotmenteer - I'm a tad worried - do they stand a chance
of rotting or will they be OK?
Battenning down the Hatches in Cumbria...

Ohhhh.... I feel for you. But there you have it, as a new allotmenteer
you'll do things differently next year and perhaps that spot where your
onions are will be best raised slightly (by adding some good old OM
without disturbing the ground too much) and hopefully a good drainage
will be established. And next year's onions will be somewhere else, in
a perfect spot that you'll have identified as being drainage perfect,
soil not too compacted and you'll avoid this year's worries )

You'll probably loose some, but not all I hope.