Bob wrote in message ...
We have had a disaster with our autumn planted onions this year. We knew
they were bad but we have just weeded them and counted 14 plants out of 50
sets planted.
They were from Marshalls, variety "Radar".
Now we normally lose a couple over winter, foxes/cats digging etc, but
this
is unusual, and the garlic planted at the same time and next to these
onions
is doing very well, better than some years, so we can't see it was the
very
wet autumn.
Anyone else had this problem this year?


Garlic was doing well, but the day after I wrote that comment above, we went
down to the allotment to find the vandals had been at work and ripped up
quite a few plants and torn the tops off others, feet marks everywhere.
Turns out that at night they have also been lighting fires against the Swan
Sanctuary fence and chucking full, unopened, tins of beans etc onto the fire
so they explode eventually, causing untold distress to the birds and indeed
the staff.

Local Copper says they're good kids and it's just high spirits !!! Local
Council security dept say, "Oh! who do we report that to?". Why do we pay
these people?
--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.