Does it ever go?
The odd thing though is that the shallots were perfect. Yet not more than three feet away were the onions. About 5% had sign of rot-the classic white stuff on some and on a few others a more purple discolouration and that `smell` that is not onion.
I`m no expert on diseases so are there other `rots`? less nasty than white rot? that I might have had-and is there a cure for other than white rot?
We've suffered this for years but are going to try to over winter some onions as apparently the "nasty"needs warmth.I think I posted on here that I read somewhere that it's been discovered that if you make up some sort of chopped onion thing and water it over affected ground the "nasty"wakes up and germinates thinking there is a host plant but then dies off when there isn't .'Sounds as if it might work
I am thinking about the boiled garlic water thing as well. It`s not economics-I could and do buy onions by the sackful. It`s just I miss my own from the Leeds days-all sitting there drying and the variety was my choice. Oh and garlic which I still dare not try-it was once so easy to grow a bucketful was no problem-that I do find expensive
I had white rot (I think) for the first time this year on some garlic and one or two shallots. All the rest were fine (both garlic and shallots growing adjacent to the randomly infected stuff) as well as over-wintered and standard onions. Really bizarre.
Quote from: macmac on July 21, 2010, 16:12:30
We've suffered this for years but are going to try to over winter some onions as apparently the "nasty"needs warmth.
My spring sown onions and shallots are all fine, but the overwintered were badly infected, loosing 100% of my red and white onions, half of the silver skinned and most of my spring onions.
My garlic was mostly OK, just a small touch of rot on one bulb.
On gardeners world, they surgested building a small hill and planting the onions on top, it helps with drainage.
Like most ideas on gardeners world, they did this one just after I had plants my onions out, but I will give it a go this coming autumn.
I am treating my proposed allium beds now, for use next year using the methods detailed here :- http://www.growyourown.info/page173.html
I have high hopes for it as it appears that UK farmers are already using something similar, but it does mean that you have to be organised to know where you will be growing your alliums next year.