Autumn Planted Onions
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? -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
Autumn Planted Onions
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. |
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