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Spring onions
Verdun
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For the third year now..or so..my spring onions have given up the ghost whilst apparently doing well. Been picking for a few weeks but now they simply brush off the ground. I think its a soil pest ...will have to check it out. Always had spring onions for most of the summer. Besides they should really be swelling bulbs now not dying off...?
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Has it been to dry for them down there in your tropical paradise?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
At least you got them to begin growing. Over the last 45 years of trying I have never actually managed to get the seeds to germinate at all.
If it was a root pest, you would see the grubs on the base of the onions as that is where they hang out.
I blame climate change
Billericay - Essex
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Have some of our lettuce Verdun - I need to use them all 'cos the courgettes are waiting to be planted in that bed
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How odd, I grew them this year for the first time, Lisbon, in pots and beds. I seem to have few insect pests, maybe its the wind, atmospheric, not mine.
Is it too late to sow spring onions now for this year? I dont mind if they arent massive, wud b cheaper than buying them. Mine have been successful, at least not bolted like my green leaf salad veg, also can i sow them bit later on and let them grow over winter to eat in spring? Does everyone grow the Lisbon one? That's what I see most of time being sold as seeds, I presume its a good one to grow.
No it's not too late crazyflower sow now harvest in a few months. Lisbon is fine.
I have been growing North Holland Blood Red in a large pot and so far they are ok, a bit slow to increase in size but ok.