Very poor onions

[petefj]

This year my onions are very bad.  Both the over wintering and the spring sown varieties along with the shallots.  The O/W onions are about the size of small marbles and the spring sown no better.  The shallots are not worth picking.

Has anyone else experienced such a poor crop?  Last year I had a good crop and the year before.  I just don't know where I went wrong.

Peter

[petefj]

[brown thumb]

my   pink garlic is poor ,i dug them as they were dying off and looked  for decease but could`nt find  any problems  but they looked more like spring onions and white no garlic smell either

[Ellen K]

Mine look rubbish this year.

So I pulled all the obviously diseased ones (about 1/3 of the plants :-( ) and the rest got a soaking from The Blue Lagoon (the barrel with Miracle Gro in it - and believe me they will need a miracle to make a crop).

And they were all standing up and looking a lot stronger when I was there yesterday.

What can you do?

[goodlife]

Its not only you...my onions and shallots are not doing much. Hardly put any growth since they were planted. Shallots have actually grown the bulb before the tops were properly growing???..and now the tops are just about done and bulb size is very small.
Garlic didn't have great start..but then I resulted for some extra TLC some weeks ago..'force fed' and watered to bulk them up and some varieties responded to it and are looking promising. But..there is still few garlic varieties that are going to be small when lifted.
It is the weather...I've done everything 'as usual'. Looks like it is going to be 'year of the brassica' for me...they are going wild and growing inches every day