My Garden Problem: Fingers Crossed I Can Beat It 

Hi Tony, nice job planting your onions and starting your journal too. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

I usually start my winter onions off in trays in the greenhouse and pop them in once they have rooted...works well for me I'm still eating last winters crop which I harvested in late spring

My Labrador finds blood, fish and bone irresistible. I have to net my raised beds after I have used it 😂

Can’t beat chicken poo/compost with a bit of sulphur for all the Alliums‼️🇨🇦

None of that crop rotation bollocks. Nearly sprayed my mouthful of coffee up the wall 😂

The dogs will love the chicken pellets snack tlme

I've never considered growing winter onions but after the disaster this year with my summer ones, I might give it a try after seeing what you are doing. My only problem here is I'm on heavy clay and my soil tends to be wet and cold during the winter and I don't have any raised beds, though applications of compost is improving things.. However, I might set up a couple of small raised beds for winter after having seen yours. I've been mostly 'no dig' for several years, but I don't know where all the weeds have come from this year, so my fork has been very busy this week! It's been a superb day today, so I've emptied one of my compost bins as it was ready and spread the "good stuff" around. Three years ago I rebuilt my compost bins into a three-bay system using pallets and my results are much better than when I had only one large bay, and it is much easier to get at the completed compost too.

I go to Down to Earth at Hexham NE UK for my Autumn onions, its where you went for your pots Tony, Steve

Omg the chicken manure is so smelly I used made the whole garden unusable

"Chicken pellets." Is this what I know (and buy) as "Pasteurized pelletized poultry litter," "litter" meaning the mixed droppings and chicken bedding?

Have you got worms in those beds?

There isn't a 10% discount on garlic

10% discount not working on garlic only seeds

So Tony do you really mean chicken pellets that you give to chickens really, what does it do for the plants please tell me looks interesting. ❤have a great day