"Broadback" wrote
Bob Hobden wrote:
"David Rance" wrote ...
I have just lifted my crop of shallots and onions. While the shallots
have done better than they have ever done - huge bulbs - the onions have
done worse, some hardly growing at all from the sets that I planted.
Both were planted in the same bed.

Does anyone have any idea why this should be?

None what so ever, our shallots (both French type) have done well and our
onions are enormous, bigger than they have been for many years, strong
too.
What variety did you grow, different from normal?
Gardening is full of mysteries. I have grown onions, shallots, pickling
onions and garlic all in the same bed. All have done better for me this
year, except the garlic which are wee. Mind you watching a tv programme
the other evening from the Isle of Wight they were interviewing a garlic
grower who said that garlic do well on the IoW because they need lots of
light, well that has been short this year!


Our Garlic, Germidour and Thermidrome (sp?), also did very well this year
except for one variety, Marco, which didn't grow at all, useless. Obviously
this year sorted the men from the boys, variety wise.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London