Too Much Nitrogen?

Some of the batches onions seemed to not get enough fertility to grow as well as they could this year, but the onions in other gardens had surprising issues that seem to have been caused by too much nitrogen in the soil.

0:00 Another year of growing onions
0:44 Multisown clusters
2:17 Varieties
3:20 Disease
3:58 White rot
5:04 Bolting
5:51 Splitting
7:13 Amended compost
8:53 Heavy loss with heavy fertility
10:15 Finding a balance
11:48 Always learning

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