Vicky wrote ...

Moonraker wrote:
This year my onions have been excellent, my shallots mediocre and garlic
b***** awful. As they have been grown in the same conditions, side by
side, why should that be please?

It's not just you, my onions have been ... well, I /thought/ they were
terrible, but I dug through the weeds of where I thought they had all
failed, and found a load of huge ones! But the garlic has all rotted. I
think it may be a heavy year for white rot, perhaps. Or maybe the strange
weather just confused them.

In order of poor performance, I seem to have: garlic, white onions, brown
onions, red onions

Onions hate weeds around them , if you weed only one thing it has to be the
onions.

-- Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK