I planted a load of onions a couple of months ago, and they were doing really well. Went to the plot yesterday and about a third of them seem to have disappeared >:(
No sign of digging and the ones that are left dont look slug-eaten. Do birds eat onions?
They certainly pull them up!
Could be humans ??? ??? ??? ???
They pull them up but you normally you find them nearby, but if you say they were doing well they would be rooted so not really sure. :-\ ;D ;D ;D
It's usually pigeons, sometimes corvids, they looking for worms! ;)
cats have dug mine up... b@#t@rds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(
mmmmm, funny you should say that as something has eaten the tops off my leeks
Exactly the same thing happened to mine a few years ago. It was my first year at the allotment and I was really proud of my bed of Japanese onions.....until every single one of them disappeared overnight. There was no sign of them anywhere, so I don't think it could have been birds. They were not big enough to be any use in the kitchen.
I hope you find out what happened to yours.
onions dont like it to wet .
pehaps they pushed them selfs out and rotted
Quote from: Squash63 on March 07, 2009, 07:06:38
Exactly the same thing happened to mine a few years ago. It was my first year at the allotment and I was really proud of my bed of Japanese onions.....until every single one of them disappeared overnight. There was no sign of them anywhere, so I don't think it could have been birds. They were not big enough to be any use in the kitchen.
I hope you find out what happened to yours.
Japanese onions,huh! I recon you been RUSTLED!! I'd look for Japanese growth on adjacent plots this season!
Quote from: terrier on March 08, 2009, 03:52:58
Quote from: Squash63 on March 07, 2009, 07:06:38
Exactly the same thing happened to mine a few years ago. It was my first year at the allotment and I was really proud of my bed of Japanese onions.....until every single one of them disappeared overnight. There was no sign of them anywhere, so I don't think it could have been birds. They were not big enough to be any use in the kitchen.
I hope you find out what happened to yours.
Japanese onions,huh! I recon you been RUSTLED!! I'd look for Japanese growth on adjacent plots this season!
a freind of mine has an alloty and had some apple trees go missing and a far off plot on the same site seemed to have some new ones go in . could not prove that they were her tree's so i helped put in some new ones but we marked these new ones and guess wot they whent missing aswel, we found them on another plot suprisigly the same plot as the other new tree's were spotted (you know were im going here)
we took all the tree's back ;D
If the soil's too wet, onions might not thrive, but they wouldn't disappear overnight!
I planted my shallots yesterday and have covered them with some of those polythene corrugated sheets .. so if they go it will definitely not be birds!
Havent got to the bottom of this yet.. but no more have been taken recently. Perhaps my neighbours fancied some spring onions!
I cover mine with grass cuttings or autumn leaves. The birds don't get near them!
I experienced a ' loss ' on my lottie last year, don't know if people realise
how upseting that is -- I could have cried, :-\
Think Cherry trees are a bit blatent though TM, :o may be they had bought the same at the same time ?
What was the outcome ?
floss
I lost my incinerator a couple of weeks ago but it's not on the allotment site...it had my postcode written all over it so they'd have had to paint it out.
Any ideas how to secure my new one when I get it?......I will be attempting to put on 'fake rust' as rusty ones don't normally walk.
Plants are really difficult though....trees can be marked but not onions....how annoying for you.
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This was one of many cabbages that I had grown for Xmas. Some b*@"a!d just cut out all the hearts and left me with the outer leaves !!!!
gets on your bloody nerves don't it, you do all the hard work and some little b@*":$£d comes along and nicks it. most of my peas went last year along with some broad beans and toms b4 they even ripened. even last week the allotment shed/hut got broken into and they took the rotovator, lawn mower and £2000 worth of seeds, compost and stuff, makes me really angry the society we live in now.
Quote from: little pud on March 11, 2009, 15:35:53
gets on your bloody nerves don't it, you do all the hard work and some little b@*":$£d comes along and nicks it. most of my peas went last year along with some broad beans and toms b4 they even ripened. even last week the allotment shed/hut got broken into and they took the rotovator, lawn mower and £2000 worth of seeds, compost and stuff, makes me really angry the society we live in now.
thats awful i'm sorry you lost all that.
What on earth are they going to do with £2000 of seeds and stuff...
perhaps our Seedaholics did an inside job.... :-X
lost every one of my pears last year and it was the best crop the tree had ever produced, there in the evening and gone the next morning i was gutted and very pi**ed off but what can you do you cant spend every waking hour looking after the plot >:(
Mice ate 500gms of 'waitng to be planted' onion sets yesterday!