What is epsom salts?
I'm sure there is an actual fertilizer that is epsom salts but can't think what it is.
Speaking to a champion onion grower and show judge today who's had his plots for 55 years and he told me to sprinkle E/S around my onions now to make them swell... As if they need swelling! I'm pretty proud of them as they are but if it helps.
His onions average 5 to 6 pounds each :o
Many thanks.
QUOTE PLOT69 [ His onions average 5 to 6 pounds each ]
Light weights LOL
Magnesium Sulphate.
Fortnightly spray for Toms, but know nothing about Onions.
Anyway, a 5lb Onion is far too big for the kitchen & I don't exhibit.
Its new to me as well if you want to feed your onions then a watered solution of Fish blood and bone is as good as anything or Chempac leek and onion feed.
Getting a big onion is not necessarily down to the feed it is mostly down to the breed of onion.
That's true.
Quote from: tim on July 14, 2008, 17:38:57
Anyway, a 5lb Onion is far too big for the kitchen & I don't exhibit.
Neither do I, but for some reason I really enjoy growing onions. It's not something I thought about. I just seem to find myself paying more attention and talking to them more than anything else.
I was recommended on using it to help my magnesium deficient potatoes.
But are you the Chef, Plottie?
I used it on my tomato plants last year as they were lacking magnesium. This year I havent had too.
Though my potatoes have gone a bit yellow, but I think that due to them dying down.
Quote from: tim on July 15, 2008, 11:47:53
But are you the Chef, Plottie?
I'm not no but my son is a fully qualified chef... He still can't cook as well as my Mrs though ;)