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My winter shallots are flowering, does that mean that I need to take them up now or are they alright if I just take the flowers off? Feel abit thick asking but we have never raised onions successfully before as they have rotted due to the weather.
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Karen
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Nip the flowers/buds out, we have had the same problem down here with onions as well as shallots its been very dry and had to water a couple of times -
It's apparently cold that induces bolting, not dryness
Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice: Sowing & Planting OnionsAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Reply to Heated mat for Tom's and chilliesI use a mix of six scoops of compost three scoops of sand/grit and two scoops of perlite,the quantity is unimportant as long as the ratio is the same, if for seeds I use this mix, if I am potting on I add some blood, fish and bone, along with a small quantity of chicken manure pellets
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