@Obelixx the real Roscoff onions have an Appelation d'Origine Contrôlée ... we can get a few here in Waitrose when the season starts, but they're only available in small quantities for a week or so.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, you wondered what this year's harvest of onions etc will be like here in Holland. Well, it's awful.
Growers of all sorts of things, like for instance potatoes, onions, sugar beet and corn are desperate. They expect to have at least 50 percent less than in a normal year.
Cow farmers are keeping their animals in, because having them walk in the fields would do even more damage to the already totally shrivelled grass.
They are feeding their animals the food they had already bought for the winter, and are wondering where to find new food for the winter, because there is already a serious shortage.
And then there are the idiots.
A commercial fruit grower had 60.000 kgs of lovely Opal plums. He expected to sell them to a large supermarket chain, but when he delivered the first batch, they refused them because some of the plums were 3mm! smaller than what the supermarket wanted.
They didn't care that the poor man lived in an area with a ban on watering crops!
In the end his sister got angry and took to facebook.That caused all sorts of people to cueue up to buy the plums.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
why am I awake so early?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
ive been amusing myself by flagging spam ... I’ve done it all ... so far ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A few showers overnight, but not much actual rain.