These are onion aphids. You need not to grow anything from the onion family in that area for at least 2 seasons. Find another area to grow the onions and plant flowers around the onions that aphids don't like or something that will bring in predator bugs to eat them. I plant borage marigolds dill and basil around all my gardens. Also you could try spraying neem oil/water mixture on the onions to deter the aphids. Just spary early in the morning or later in the evening. I haven't had a lot of luck with onion but leaks I had no issue. So there is hope. 👍 Good Luck.

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Hiya Melinda - good point as we have very few flowers. I need to correct that and hopefully it will help in the future. I won't be growing onions anywhere near that spot for at least a few years.

Oignons and garlic are in same family and carry same problems. One of the problem is called nematode and can be cured by planting marigold, found this solution on KZread in the garlic gardening. The second is a flies laying it’s eggs on the leafs witch becomes minuscules maggots that can travel down to the bottom and feed on the bulb. You can buy a product on Amazon that works on garlic and oignons. The name of the product is :´double side yellow sticky trap.´´. It is suppose to attract the fly and it becomes stuck to it. I am trying it for the first time this year, results to follow.

Oh my, I hope someone knows what kinds of bugs those are. I am so glad you are not giving up! I wish I could be of some help. Catherine

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Your moral support is enough Catherine lol. Cheers my friend. Hope all is well.

Like #4 Happy Monday..Blessings and much love..💋💋🙏🙏

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers my friend. Hope all is well :)

Could those be aphids? I am horrible at gardening for the most part but I do struggle with aphids and they look similar. Have a great day. You encourage me to keep gardening despite some of my shortcomings! We will win! With vermicompost I don’t think they will win for long!

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Hiya CWL :-) Yes the plan is to seriously amend that patch with barrels of my own vermicompost - which will have some worms in no doubt - and then not grow onions there for at least a few years. That - and a flame thrower lol :)

@TheCrazyWormLady

5 жыл бұрын

London Worms & Garden woohoo I love a good fire 🔥 (jk) but I think that is an excellent plan!

nice!

I enjoy watching thank you for sharing like 16

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers SoulfoodQueen :)

Oh My! So Sorry! I have No Idea! Thanks for sharing Have a Great Evening

@TNOG511

5 жыл бұрын

You said you used MANURE in that Bed.. I think you should check the Soil.. Just to see if you anything Living, /Moving, In this Soil.. Its Just a Thought..

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Hiya Linda :) I won't be growing any onions anywhere near that bed in the near future. The manure was well aged so it should have been fine. But who knows to be honest. I'm adding my own vermicompost to it now and it's been sitting resting over winter - apart from the beetroot - so I'm hoping courgettes and cucumbers will be ok there this year. We shall see. Hope this finds you well and happy my friend :)

That's really sad. I know not things about Garden work....hope next year will be better 💖

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Yvonne - very much appreciated my friend :) Hope all is well :)

I got my yellow sticky trap from Amazon Friday June 12 (quite late from the post due to COVID 19). I installed two piece(4inches by 6inches)they are sticky on both side. Sunday noon I check them an surprise! There was 24 of them stuck on the sticky trap that won’t lay eggs on my garlic. Next year, I will start much sooner!

Not seen that before my friend, some onions don't store very well, but the Beatles may just have liked the onion as a home. ♻️Happy Gardening........♻️Terry King ♻️

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Onion aphids apparently Terry. Aren't I the special one that of all the onions in all the gardens and in all the plots in all of London - they chose me lol. Hope all is well my friend. Cheers. :)

Onion don't like to be in wet soil. Next some manure has disease specific when using fresh in garden. Let them dry for one or two years. Happy gardening 👍

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers BG :) Hope all is well. I won't be growing onions there again for a long time lol.

Bummer. It looks like you have gotten plenty of advice and I won't even try but I'm wondering if part of the problem came with the sets. Hope you have a better crop this year. Best wishes Bob.

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Bob - could well be ... I always struggle with alliums and never had much success but last year it was all out devastation. And the year before the onions were in containers ... and I wasn't growing onions anywhere in the garden before that .. so last year was the first year ever onions were grown in that soil ... and it was bedlam lol. So you could well have a point my friend :)

Oh goodness. wish I could help. If I can think of anything, I’ll post it. Take care.

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Hiya Cheryl - your moral support is much appreciated my friend :) Hope all is well :)

OMG! What a string of problems! I wish I could help!

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Your moral support is much appreciated my friend :)

Those are most certainly onion aphids and you'll probably have to give the onions a rest for a couple of years or grow them somewhere else. What a bummer!

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers William. Onions down the allotment it is for the next few years although I might try a few in a container but not near that spot - it's handy nippping out the back garden for an onion ... he says ... as if he could grow them lol

It's so annoying when you want to grow something and you spend all that time and effort but get huge problems. You seemed to have more than your fair share. When I dug up my first lot of onions last year they had white rot. I sulked for a week before I dug up the rest and luckily the rest were fine. I've had no luck with leeks and can't grow a spring onion to save my life. But I'll never give up trying. Take care and never give in Becky

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

I think that's what makes us such hopeful people 😂 There's always next season .... 😊😊😊

So sorry about the bugs my friend! I have seen some bugs in my onions, and I hose them down with water every day until they are gone. Not sure if the ones on my onions are the same bugs on yours, but hope this year is better for you my friend.

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

That's a good idea for me to try this year ... I live in hope lol

I keep shalots in plastic cups with just water. I use the stalks for sandwiches, baked spuds etc and it regrows.. I don't know if they'll last long with no soil but ok so far after 2wks.. :)

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

It seems everyone in the world can grow alliums ... except me lol. 2nd leeks twice so far and not a single seed germinate. Not. One. 😂

@derekfrost8991

5 жыл бұрын

@@LondonWorms mine are indoors. That's the secret I think.. :)

I thought those bugs looked like a different color of aphid that attack our roses, so I did a little checking. Apparently, there is an Onion Aphid, and it's black, so that might be what you have. I haven't looked for what to do about them yet. I've no idea about the grey mold yet. You might want to contact the R.H.S. for what to do about the bugs. Apparently, they are an invasive, non-native species. From what I've just read, the mold infection may be a secondary problem brought on by the bugs. The bugs leave wounds that mold spores take advantage of.

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Ron I really appreciate you checking on this. Much appreciated my friend.

the bugs are onion aphids

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Gary. Much appreciated.

That's ashame the bugs got at your onions I hope 2019 is a better year for the onion plants.

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Di - much appreciated :)

I've never grown onion family before, so have no useful advice, only commiserations. This year I'm planning to grow some spring onions for the first time, but I'll try not to get my hopes too high after watching this! I do agree that you might have to admit defeat for a year or two and grow some different things to allow the pests and/or pathogens attacking your alliums to die off.

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Hiya Frank - definitly no alliums anywhere near there for a few years lol.

Here is interesting and informative video: (72-garden Pest-onions maggot). It’s on KZread. Good luck!

@LondonWorms

4 жыл бұрын

The onion aphids ravished my garlic and onions again this year but I've had a decent amount of success with neem oil this year. Garlic and onions are interplanted by some with other crops to deter aphids ... mine seem to be a magnet for them.

Really sad to hear about your infestation, alliums are such a staple for us. Could they be onion leafminer? Or onion aphids

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

The concensus is it's onion aphid. Oh well, there's always this year lol ... We use a lot of onions in cooking here too and I was soooo looking forward to a riased bed full of them but never mind - it's an improvement on last year! And we did get to freeze and use the best of them. So I'm taking the positive that it wasn't a total loss lol. Cheers my friend. Hope all is well :)

My guess: allium leaf miner larvae having a munch on the bulb, a secondary infection develops, onion aphids come to feed on the weakened plant. Need some fine mesh to stop the leaf miner flies laying their eggs.

@growingstuffs

5 жыл бұрын

Also, I grew spring onions for the first time last year and they did really well. Started them off in module trays then transplanted into troughs.

....why I prefer to buy onion in supermarkets...🙄🤔

ve never seen anything like that before. I really looks like an infestation. do you practice crop rotation? looks like you need to grow them somewhere else. the fungus looks like white rot...………......brian

@LondonWorms

5 жыл бұрын

Hiya Brian - this was the first time ever onions were grown in the garden soil. In 2017 they were grown in containers. What a start! Anyhow, it'll be some considerable time before onions are grown anywhere near there again lol