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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: ClaireMc on October 23, 2007, 12:41

Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: ClaireMc on October 23, 2007, 12:41: Drat and double drat. I dug a few barrowloads of compost/manure into the rows where I want to plant some onions, THEN read the instructions that say they don't like freshly-manured ground.

Should I abandon these rows (chosen because they had legumes in this year)? Does anyone have experience of manure vs onions?
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: muntjac on October 23, 2007, 12:43: dont worry .they like your ground but not the manure around thier bases. go for it .. " werks for others " :wink: :lol:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Sadgit on October 23, 2007, 12:56: so.. if I rotorvator manure in now, will the ground be ok for the onions going in next year?
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: muntjac on October 23, 2007, 13:01: absolutly :wink:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Sadgit on October 23, 2007, 13:02: Quote from: "muntjac"
absolutly :wink:

ta love.. glad you said that, as the muck is all over the place now.. :lol:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: muntjac on October 23, 2007, 13:04: Quote from: "Sadgit"
Quote from: "muntjac"
absolutly :wink:

ta glad you said that, as the muck is all over the place now.. :lol:
love ????
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Sadgit on October 23, 2007, 13:05: Quote from: "muntjac"
Quote from: "Sadgit"
Quote from: "muntjac"
absolutly :wink:

ta glad you said that, as the muck is all over the place now.. :lol:
love ????

Oh come on now munty.. don't get all shy with me...
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: muntjac on October 23, 2007, 13:06: ANTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: agapanthus on October 23, 2007, 13:18: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Trillium on October 23, 2007, 18:19: Contrary to some advice, we manure our beds every fall with lots of old muck. And we get whopping great big onions every time. And if the summer is drought ridden, the mucked soil seems to keep enough moisture in for the plants. We had a very dry summer this year in Ontario, never watered the onions once, and got bigguns you could hurt someone with :wink: Even got a bumper crop of carrots to our surprise. And no, we don't find mucking makes our carrots fork; they just get rather hairy if we add too much. Maybe this is something I should mass produce and market - Trillium's Hair Tonic for balding men :lol: :lol:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Calou on October 23, 2007, 18:40: Quote from: "muntjac"
ANTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thats all I'm saying!
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: ClaireMc on October 24, 2007, 11:29: Thanks everybody, I'm going to chuck the little beggars in the ground this weekend then.

And the flirting was very entertaining as well.

Claire
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Sadgit on October 24, 2007, 11:35: Quote from: "muntjac"
ANTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Oh come now.. marines do it together.. you can call me a marine in training.. 8)
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: squiffy2 on October 24, 2007, 11:53: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

squiffs - gettign slightly worried he may have strayed into the wrong forums...... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: (http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/gimp.gif)(http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/gimp.gif)(http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/gimp.gif)
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: muntjac on October 24, 2007, 11:58: somebody lock the person up will ya ..........................
lmao call the mps :lol:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Sadgit on October 24, 2007, 13:34: Quote from: "muntjac"
somebody lock the person up will ya ..........................
lmao call the mps :lol:

mps? munty's personal service? :oops: :lol: :shock:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: muntjac on October 24, 2007, 14:59: sad person :roll: lmaooooooooooo ya wassucked :lol: :wink:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Sadgit on October 24, 2007, 15:19: Quote from: "muntjac"
sad person :roll: lmaooooooooooo ya wassucked :lol: :wink:

wooo hooo finally... will you come and personally give it to me??
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: muntjac on October 24, 2007, 15:21: yeh with a dang fork lmao :lol: :lol: .. oh n by the way ,,, i dont do guys lmaooooooo
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: Sadgit on October 24, 2007, 17:59: Quote from: "muntjac"
yeh with a dang fork lmao :lol: :lol: .. oh n by the way ,,, i dont do guys lmaooooooo

lmao.. now that isn't very nice is it?? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: shaun on October 24, 2007, 20:49: its those sandles they have done silly things with his mind :roll: :wink:
Title: Preparing ground for onions
Post by: gobs on October 24, 2007, 21:19: Quote from: "Sadgit"
Quote from: "muntjac"
:l:

wooo hooo finally... will you come and personally give it to me??

Now, I don't mind what personally doing to each other but girls get to the NS for a lot less than that. :wink: