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Rotting onions
Loz46
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I have a couple of places where I am growing onions at the allotment - some in raised beds with a mix of compost/manure/soil which are doing great, and some just straight in the ground which is sandy/loamy soil which aren't so big.
I noticed that there was one in a raised bed that was yellowing, so I pulled it up and found that it was rotting inside, so I threw it away and put it down as a 'bad apple'.
Today I have just found another, but this time one that is in the ground, I pulled it up and again found that it was slimy just above the roots.
Is this something to worry about? The onions in the bed in question are absolutely huge, and I certainly don't want to lose them to a disease.
Thanks!
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Hopefully, it's not white rot:
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=226
Monty had this on a recent Gardener's World in the onions in his raised bed as he can no longer grow them in the ground due to this disease. The best advice regardless of whether it is this or another disease is to destroy the affected ones and don't put them on the compost heap.
Have you had a lot of rain?
hi loz46 I have taken all my sturton onions up and found this year a good 20 went to flower and have a hard thick sten when I have dried them and clean a few they where a bit soft and white but now they have dried out at base just rub them with a cloth and ok but we have had plenty rain .. but as bob says don't throw on compost tip put them in your garden bin at home and it goes for land fill Michael
Lifted our onions on Saturday, good job we had a little rain Sunday morning, a couple were a bit soggy,but we got 70 good ones. I never put onions,tomatos or potatoes in the compost, just in case.
Sorry, just seen these replies.
Not had much rain at all, no! Been very dry. Found another one that had just started rotting today. Doesn't look much like the onion rot pics on the link...
I have got at least 40 onions that are fine, so I'm hoping the three rotting ones so far were just weak sets or something ?