what, or whom, is digging up my onion sets?
 

I know they have a tenancy to push themselves above ground, but many of
them are also laterally displaced. Who might the culprits be? More
importantly can I do anything to stop it?

what, or whom, is digging up my onion sets?
 

On 22/02/16 18:12, Broadback wrote:
I know they have a tenancy to push themselves above ground, but many of
them are also laterally displaced. Who might the culprits be? More
importantly can I do anything to stop it?

Are they being dug up or pulled up?

--

Jeff

what, or whom, is digging up my onion sets?
 

"Broadback" wrote in message
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I know they have a tenancy to push themselves above ground, but many of them are also
laterally displaced. Who might the culprits be? More importantly can I do anything to
stop it?

Blackbirds are the main culprits here. I cover the bed with fleece
until the sets have made sufficient root to stop them being pulled out.
Will be another couple of months before they are planted up here!

Phil
Northern Highlands of Scotland

what, or whom, is digging up my onion sets?
 

"Broadback" wrote in message ...

I know they have a tenancy to push themselves above ground, but many of
them are also laterally displaced. Who might the culprits be? More
importantly can I do anything to stop it?

You've planted then already? I haven't even been able to winter dig yet,
too wet, and if you push our soil the structure is ruined for ages.

--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

what, or whom, is digging up my onion sets?
 

On 23/02/2016 17:29, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Broadback" wrote in message ...

I know they have a tenancy to push themselves above ground, but many
of them are also laterally displaced. Who might the culprits be? More
importantly can I do anything to stop it?

You've planted then already? I haven't even been able to winter dig
yet, too wet, and if you push our soil the structure is ruined for ages.

Well perhaps I was premature. Only time will tell.

what, or whom, is digging up my onion sets?
 

On 22/02/2016 18:12, Broadback wrote:
I know they have a tenancy to push themselves above ground, but many of
them are also laterally displaced. Who might the culprits be? More
importantly can I do anything to stop it?

Its usually birds, a number of different ones do it, always covered mine
until they had rooted themselves.

--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
National collections of Clematis viticella & Lapageria rosea