yes i keep moving them three different areas on two allotments every year the same. I only lose about 25% of onions but is annoying.

thanks for the advice,and i am a bit confused about it my shallots which i grew next to the onions are fine(sadly the garlic wasn't so lucky).

thanks sue i was starting to think so myself but new plot this year been fallow for past five years. i must have contaminated the plot myself.

I am in my third year on my allotments. The first year i lost a few onions and quite a few shallots to what an old timer called onion blight,the leaves yellowed and wilted with the roots rotting off.second year,at the other end of the allotment same thing again but i noticed that as soon as they sta...