Saturday, November 17, 2007
And so to bed
It has been an age since I last updated the blog. Work on the allotment seems to mostly consist of digging these days which is not the most inspiring work to write about. The beds are overgrown and weedy, so I'm trying to knock them into shape before everything starts growing quickly again. Planted some Solent Wight garlic today and cut back an invading mass of brambles and the tall stems of nettles which were growing between them. The autumn planted onions are just beginning to sprout and the phacelia sown as a green manure a few weeks ago is starting to give a bit of cover. Not sure if I need to protect the onions with fleece or if they are hardy enough to withstand dropping temperatures but I've left them to their own devices for now.
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Autumn-planted onions should survive without protection (mine have been doing so for several years). Their worst enemy is waterlogging, which will cause them to rot, so you might want to give them a bit of protection if the soil isn't well drained.
Thanks - that's good to know. The soil doesn't tend to get waterlogged so fingers crossed they will do ok.
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