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20-06-2014, 07:16 PM
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Onions

Our onions have all wilted does anyone know why other peoples on the allotments have also done the same should i just pull them or is it worth seeing what happens.
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20-06-2014, 07:52 PM
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Re: Onions

More than likely it will be white rot. Pull up one plant and if there's a white fungus on the underside it's trouble, the roots rot away and the plant dies. My onions get it and I usually lose about 6 bulbs in spite of spraying with a fungicide.
 



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