On 13 Aug, 09:45, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-08-13 08:06:25 +0100, Broadback said:



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!

I was trying to remember the name of the variety he was growing that
comes from Russia. *I think the name become with an 'M' and AFAIR, it
was said to be especially pungent. *And what about that elephant garlic!
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Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

I have never tried elephant garlic, but watching the programme I
wondered whether they actually tasted as strong as the smaller bulb
varieties? The variety we have is Solent Wight which have done quite
well, but our onions this year have been decimated by the wet weather
in July. Many have just rotted inside and I am mounting a desperate
struggle to dry the remaining ones out enough so they will keep long
enough through the Autumn for me to use them.