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I have heard that you need to prepare onion beds, what is the best way to do this please, and once a bed is prepared do the onions stay in that same spot always many thanks in advance lofty |
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Lofty wrote: Hi All I have heard that you need to prepare onion beds, what is the best way to do this please, and once a bed is prepared do the onions stay in that same spot always many thanks in advance lofty There are people that will say beds need preparing for everything! I pulled 24 onions yesterday. They were started in root-trainers, then planted out. Soil is HEAVY clay. No prep. -- Pete C London UK |
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Lofty wrote:
I have heard that you need to prepare onion beds, what is the best way to do this please, and once a bed is prepared do the onions stay in that same spot always Don't leave any annual crops in the same place year to year. Always rotate to minimize a build up of pests specific to each vegetable. -- David in Normandy. To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the subject line, or it will be automatically deleted by a filter and not reach my inbox. |
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"Lofty" wrote ... I have heard that you need to prepare onion beds, what is the best way to do this please, and once a bed is prepared do the onions stay in that same spot always We use a four year rotation so our veg plot (allotment) is divided into 4. Each year the onions are on a different quarter but always the last quarter so are the last crop to get any benefit of the manure we put on the potato quarter (first quarter) each year. They get some chicken manure pellets and/or Growmore at the beginning and we get superb onions etc. Just dig the bed and make it as friable as possible before planting but the most important thing is to keep onions weed free, lots of hand weeding. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Lofty" wrote ... I have heard that you need to prepare onion beds, what is the best way to do this please, and once a bed is prepared do the onions stay in that same spot always We use a four year rotation so our veg plot (allotment) is divided into 4. Each year the onions are on a different quarter but always the last quarter so are the last crop to get any benefit of the manure we put on the potato quarter (first quarter) each year. They get some chicken manure pellets and/or Growmore at the beginning and we get superb onions etc. Just dig the bed and make it as friable as possible before planting but the most important thing is to keep onions weed free, lots of hand weeding. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London Thanks all, for all the info, much appreciated lofty |
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