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  • From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] onions
  • Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:19:52 -0400

I should have mentioned this, also.

The TX onion place is not organic but has started consulting for organic growers. For this reason, I'm not sure that their world view is accurate, but they were really focused on fungal problems while raising onions.

The consultant recommended that I spray with fish emulsion once a week and coat the tops of each plant heavily. This was not for N but because the fish oils, he said, act as a prophylaxix against fungus gaining a hold in the skin of the onion tops.

I have all sorts of confusion about the use of N on bulbing plants (fearing that it would promote top growth at the expense of bulb growth), so I never got around to following his instructions, but since I do have far more fungal problems in this Mid-Atlantic high humidity, cold nights growing situation, I would ask if anyone else has found that 'fish oil coating' helps reduce fungal problems in your crops.

Thanks

-Allan in WV




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