Hi All,
Am pulling our rather digging out onions and whilst they look ok some are just soggy like a sponge and are disintegrating.
I am wondering if there bottoms have stood 2 long in the wet when we had all that rain?
No sign of rot or white patches the onions look ok even a few i have cut in half have no blemishes inside?
So the question i have is whats happened? Are the hard onions ok to eat? Can i grow onions there again next year?
out of the onions i have pulled so far 1/4 are ok 1/4 are going to seed and about 1/2 are going in the bin.
cam
I am wondering if there bottoms have stood 2 long in the wet when we had all that rain?
It is possible that excess wetness has had its effect on them...particularly if we had that wet and cold weather around your the planting time when the new tender roots were trying to get themself established.
But as you have so much going to seed already..it does sound like weather has taken its toll with them and fooled them into flower too early.
I'm not even hinting of possibility of white rot..but have you had that in your plot before?
Hi
Thanks for that yes thats my thinking.
Never had anything in the garden before growing in back garden this was farm land before but i am told it was spuds and cereal crops but things last grown at least 5 years ago.
Cam
me too. Constant rain even in well drained soil. I noticed soggy leaves a couple of weeks ago so I lifted any that looked or felt soggy. I threw a few out but dehydrated a lot so it wasn`t a complete waste as the ones I dehydrated were very large. I have about 15 left in the ground and now the tops are starting to bend over but they obviously won`t store and will be fine for short term use
I lifted mine pronto as I didn`t want to invire white rot and am looking on the bright side as I now have space for something else
yep well if there ok i am going to cook them all down with a glob of butter and make french onion soup idea for a hot evening when you only want to eat something light :)
Well the onions got progressively worse so had to bin the lot which filled an entire brown recycling bag :( Lots of slugs, long red what looked like seed pods but i guess is larvae of something and woodlice :(
Woodlice are a symptom of something else, they alwmost never eat living material prefering dead rotting stuff.... COuld well be white rot what with all the rain we had in April/Early May...