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Here's a discussion for those of you with allotments. Everything this
year seems to be weeks behind last year. At our annual inspection last
time, my summer onions had leaves big enough to flop over the paths
(and get trodden on!) whereas this year they look hardly bigger than
they did a month ago. Ditto my cabbages. I lost my sprouting broccoli
in the dry patch (as I wasn't around to water them). Discussion with
other plotholders seems to agree on incredible dryness for the last
month being responsible as we all have madly bolting autumn onions too
(it was that thread which inspired this one!)

Anyone else finding this? I think we are more prone than most since
the soil is light and very well draining, so unless it's full of
manure it doesn't hang onto moisture easily. (Farmers do well out of
us each year as we dig in enormous quantities of organic matter!)


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jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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