Time has moved on in the last 20 years with Technology really starting to make a real difference in growing vegetables, particularly the giants. If you want to grow them to perfection you ought to take a look at the Grow Tents and also our Grow Lights that are ideal for propagating them in the first 3 months.
Its not long now before the top growers will be sowing their onion seeds again and Ian Paton will be sowing next week! I was talking to Peter Glazebrook, the current world record holder and he is sowing around the third week in October .
Now is the time to be preparing your greenhouse or tunnel and get the big pots washed and cleaned in readiness for the early planting the big onions need.
Order your clean sterilised John Innes Compost for use in the final big pots, (see below) I use JI no 3 from Keith Singletons at Cumbrian Garden and Pets they will delivery to your door if its a pallet load. You may well think whats wrong with your garden soil but even if you sterilise your soil it will not be done correctly and you are bound to get some sort of soil borne decease. JI compost from reputable supplier is pasteurised with steam so its totally sterile, that means no Onion White Root, no Pink Rot etc etc.
more to follow….
