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Did a bit of work at the allotment today. I went with the intention of tidying up my Japanese onion beds by weeding and tickling soil around plants to help aerate the soil. Quite a few of the Autumn planted sets had damped off or just died off. I have three types of spring planted onion sets to plant so utilised these in the gaps.
Utilised all the white onion sets I had (about 40) just filling in the gaps.
The Centurion and Sturon sets I had were planted in a bed I prepared. To prepare the bed I just hand weeded,hoed it then spread woodash on it followed by half a bag of peat free compost. My soil is on the acid side to the woodash should hopefully sweeten it (and I had a bucket of woodash from the woodburner to dispose of anyway) the rest went on the compost heap for the same purpose.
I still have some red onions and Centurion onions to plant yet.
I need to start harvesting leeks more frequently before they start running to seed as they are a decent size now.
Utilised all the white onion sets I had (about 40) just filling in the gaps.
The Centurion and Sturon sets I had were planted in a bed I prepared. To prepare the bed I just hand weeded,hoed it then spread woodash on it followed by half a bag of peat free compost. My soil is on the acid side to the woodash should hopefully sweeten it (and I had a bucket of woodash from the woodburner to dispose of anyway) the rest went on the compost heap for the same purpose.
I still have some red onions and Centurion onions to plant yet.
I need to start harvesting leeks more frequently before they start running to seed as they are a decent size now.
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