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Onions and garlic

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  Posted by Tina (U14876030) on Monday, 1st August 2011

  I have a bed which I have used for the last year purely for garlic and onions, is it okay to keep using this bed purely for onions and garlics, I am quite happy to do this as the bed is obscured from my house so doesnt look ugly when it all falls down? Thanks

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  Posted by Kleftiwallah (U13700999) on Monday, 1st August 2011

  If you constantly use a bed for just one type of crop, you are leaving yourself (and the bed) open to introduced deseases (never could spell that word), like onion white rot. This is the reason for rotating you crops so the nasties don't build up in the soil.
  
  Onion stalks/stems neatly laid down within the rows to allow the sun to ripen the onions doesn't look unatractive. Cheers, Tony.

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  Posted by farmerSteve (U2644680) on Monday, 1st August 2011

  in one word NO
  alliums should be grown no more than 1 in 5

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  Posted by Kyle Zeitler (U14948718) on Monday, 1st August 2011

  Also, rotating the crops, supposing you are letting the compost back into the earth afterwards, provides nutrients one type wouldn't provide on its on. Try planting some legumes next to them. They have a nitrogen replenishing effect on the soil, even while theyre alive.

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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  Rather than starty a new topic, if i may go slightly off-t and enquire whether I should plant this year's garlic/onion seed pod seeds, now or put them in the freezer for a bit and then put them in a seed tray to start off with?
  
  I would not be able to planyTseedlings out in septemeber would I, but planting seeds direct in to a row would produce some seedlings?
  
  The Allium seeds i have got (still got the bulbs too, with which i started the year)
  are from quite precious flower bulbs so I don't want to waste them on a casual row of seedlings of which a good many less than half will actually take?
  
  I take the point about varying the location/rotation but i would not be worried about leaving the bulbs where they are year after year and to harvest the seeds every year. We do that with other garden flowers don't we?
  
  We don't go round rotating bulbs every year do we?
  
  

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  Posted by Tina (U14876030) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  I just thought that keeping them in one bed would be good, I am sure I read somewhere that you shouldnt plant other things where onions (aliums???) have been growing, but will bear in mind, may leave for another year and then rotate.Thanks for all of your help.

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