Topic: onions

[jock_edin]

Hi All not long till I start lifting my onions not to bad a crop but there is the odd white rot on a few. Would stop growing them for a couple of years help to clear it up. Also somebody said a sprinkle of Jay's fluid helps. Does it??
What I am really after does anyone know or of a site where it shows how to do the tying like you see at the French markets. Thanks. willie

[telboy]

jock,
I posted earlier about my probs. with 'white onion rot'.
Lost 50% of my current crop & very concerned for the future with this devestating disease.
Some say  - use Jay's fluid, an interesting post suggested using an onion/water mix poured onto the affected area to 'fool' the spores of the rot fungus into 'thinking' that an allium is present.
The spores grow & die when no host is present.
I'll try both! Can't wait 25 years for the fungus to pass away!!!

[Jayb]

For stringing onions this site has some handy photos http://richardloader.typepad.com/atwag/2007/08/how-to-string-o.html
If you click on the picture it brings them up larger in a new page.