Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: borderer1951 on June 20, 2020, 10:49
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In addition to my old plot, I took on a new but neglected half-plot last year. I spent all 2019 clearing away the weeds, including some tenacious mares' tail. and putting in raised beds filled with a native soil/compost/manure mix. So far the new bit looks good but, in conversation with a neighbouring plot holder, I heard that white rot has badly affected his onions. Fearing the worst I lifted a few and sure enough, it's there but not to any great extent. It's a little early for lifting onions but I would rather have smaller and so far unaffected bulbs than full-sized and rotten ones so tomorrow they are all coming up. Anway, it's no use crying over spilt milk so next year I will be giving the onion beds a dusting of garlic powder before planting. This year I will soon have a usable bed which I don't want to waste and wondered if I should put in some broccoli or sprouts if I can get some decent plug plants.
Any other ideas?
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What else do you like to eat and that you've not got enough of yet? :D