Just harvested the garlic and it seems to be fine but the onions are rotting. We have had extreme heat and humidity but so has a lot of the US. Onions were doing great up until a few weeks ago.
I started 3 varieties from seed (Candy, Sweet Spanish and Cortland) in late Jan. I planted them tightly spaced in early March and started harvesting in about a month using them as scallions then spring onions. I only had about 30 or so left but I noticed some soft spots on the outsides the last time I harvested a few. They all are rotting now. I'm growing them in my garden plot at Kinder Farm Park (rented garden). This is the second year I have grown onions there but my first time growing from seed. I rotated the onion/garlic bed away from last year's.
The weather has been really bad this year, first hot and dry, now hot and humid. I stopped watering the onion bed when I noticed the soft spots but the tops were still green on many. We had a number of really hard rains but the soil is very sandy there at the garden plots. Did they get too much water?
Last year the problem was reversed. My onions were fine but my garlic rotted. I can't understand it.
onions & garlic plus heat & humidity= problems?
We had a long, wet (for us) summer, and the garlic had a difficult time "bulbing up" this year. I haven't tried onions, but I know whenever it is cool and wet in the spring, the garlic doesn't do as well. They seem to get a black mold right about the soil line.