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Title: Lifting onions
Post by: Philbasford on July 22, 2010, 11:31:46

When are people planning on lifting thier onions this year?

I dont want to have the same thing happen as did last year!

Title: Re: Lifting onions
Post by: Duke Ellington on July 22, 2010, 11:43:30

What happened last year ?

Duke

Title: Re: Lifting onions
Post by: Philbasford on July 22, 2010, 11:57:23

Quote from: Duke Ellington on July 22, 2010, 11:43:30
What happened last year ?

Duke

We had a very wet spell in august, the onions got lovely and big but it was so wet and the bottoms started to rot!

Title: Re: Lifting onions
Post by: antipodes on July 22, 2010, 13:18:16

Already out, dried and just waiting to be tidied and netted!!! Lovely crop, long echalotes, red onions and squat brown onions, two varieties. Best crop so far (I think it was the wetter spring weather).

Title: Re: Lifting onions
Post by: allaboutliverpool on July 22, 2010, 13:26:50

I wait until the tops start to keel over. I have lifted garlic and one shallot variety, the rest are still erect and growing.

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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Philbasford on July 22, 2010, 11:31:46