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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Onion update

Just a quick update on my onions which have really settled in nicely since being planted into 12" pots. They have all pretty much straightened up by supporting them at intervals with plastic clips up the canes. This encourages upward growth and stops the plant leaning to one side.

These are without doubt the best i've had at this stage of the season (thanks again Helen!) so i'm hopeful of getting some 3 pounders. One slight worry is that a few weed seedlings have emerged. Easily picked off but i'm assuming they would have come from the sieved soil I included in the potting mix. If that is the case microwaving obviously did not kill them, so has it also failed to kill any white rot residues? I asked Dave T and he thinks the weed seeds could have been in the M3. Anyone else had that problem?

7 comments:

the grandfather said...

I'm a bit puzzles at the straightened up comment when the onion nearest the camera is like a new moon - or is it an old moon?

Simon (Smithyveg) said...

Bad camera angle. Piss off!

fredhogg said...

No where near as good, as the redneck Yorkshire gits.

Juan Kerr said...

You are so lucky.
I wish I'd have been able to get hold of some of those Yellow Boomerang Onions this year.

the grandfather said...

I pissed off to check out the bad camera angle comment. Concluded that if you changed the camera angle to straighten that first onion, then all the other onions would be wrong. Perhaps the angle of refraction in the Midlands needs adjusting?

the grandfather said...

Whoops, sorry, just realised you have a urine infection. Please disregard my refraction comment. :)

gazza said...

m3 compost has gone crap since scotts took over they cost me £300 worth of leek and onion seedlings 3 years back i rang and complained and im still waiting for there 'analist' to come for a sample
just not good enough