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Hi everyone,
I'm new to gardening and wish to have some advice about Spring Onions (white lisbon). I've built a vegi bed and planted plug plants and didn't start from seeds as I was slightly late. I put spring onions between a row of carrots and a lettuce raw. After few days the leaves started to fall down then turn yellow and a couple of days after I pulled up some of the dead leaves and found no roots or bulbs as if it got rotten. I'm including a picture.
The things I feel might have done wrong and need to get confirmation about are:
1- Over feeding: That bed has already organic vegetable compost worked on the sild but while planting, I've added a mix of organic vegetable compost, rotted horse manure and blood, bone and fish meal (just a pinch nothing more). After digging the raw, I put the mix, worked it out a bit with the soil and plant.
2- Excessive watering: As a newbie I wasn't sure how much water a plant needs especially that I have 5 or 6 different vegetables in each bed, so when I find the top soil dry I tend to water it. Later I learned to check the soil is moist by dipping my finger deeper.
3- Lack of sun: I used a fleece the first couple of days as it was windy and cold with potential frost, I thought to be safe then sorry. a fleece let some light pass but I'm not sure it's enough for the young plants.
4- The onions go shocked: I've read that if you start from seeds you will need to harden the plants before planting outside. I bought those from a nursery and they were indoors and I planted them in the very same day. Could that be the reason?
Anyway, I started a new raw from seeds but I was hoping to understand what went south before planting the new ones. Any advice would certainly help. Thanks
I'm new to gardening and wish to have some advice about Spring Onions (white lisbon). I've built a vegi bed and planted plug plants and didn't start from seeds as I was slightly late. I put spring onions between a row of carrots and a lettuce raw. After few days the leaves started to fall down then turn yellow and a couple of days after I pulled up some of the dead leaves and found no roots or bulbs as if it got rotten. I'm including a picture.
The things I feel might have done wrong and need to get confirmation about are:
1- Over feeding: That bed has already organic vegetable compost worked on the sild but while planting, I've added a mix of organic vegetable compost, rotted horse manure and blood, bone and fish meal (just a pinch nothing more). After digging the raw, I put the mix, worked it out a bit with the soil and plant.
2- Excessive watering: As a newbie I wasn't sure how much water a plant needs especially that I have 5 or 6 different vegetables in each bed, so when I find the top soil dry I tend to water it. Later I learned to check the soil is moist by dipping my finger deeper.
3- Lack of sun: I used a fleece the first couple of days as it was windy and cold with potential frost, I thought to be safe then sorry. a fleece let some light pass but I'm not sure it's enough for the young plants.
4- The onions go shocked: I've read that if you start from seeds you will need to harden the plants before planting outside. I bought those from a nursery and they were indoors and I planted them in the very same day. Could that be the reason?
Anyway, I started a new raw from seeds but I was hoping to understand what went south before planting the new ones. Any advice would certainly help. Thanks
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