It's hard to imagine a lunch without a bow. It is used in soups, borsch, second dishes, salads, pickles and marinades. For vegetables, fish, meat - raw, stewed, roasted onions are indispensable for Russian cuisine. Dacha owners have the opportunity to grow large, crunchy, fragrant heads on their own plot.
Which bow is better to plant on the head - varieties
To make the crop significant, you need to decide on the technology of cultivation and choose the variety that is ideal for planting in your conditions. Onions can be grown on a head in three ways: to sow seeds in the soil in early spring, to plant sevok( small bulbs grown last summer) or to use seedlings. The choice of technology determines the planting time. From the method of cultivation also depends on the varieties, on which you should choose. Onion varieties vary in variety. Some varieties are well-born in an annual culture, others are not suitable for this. In the southern regions of the country, seeds are grown for one year:
- Chalcedony;
- Strigunovsky;
- Lugansk;
- Golden;
- Globe;
- Love;
- Amphora;
- Aleko.
Two-year-old cultivation is cultivated:
- Eldorado;
- Stimulus;
- Ellan;
- Execution;
- Stuttgart Riesen;
- Centurion;
- Timiryazevsky.
For one season, onion heads can be grown only in warm regions of the country or by applying seedlings and film shelters. For sowing, last year's seeds are used. They are soaked and sown in the soil in the early spring, as soon as the snow descends and the earth dries. Shoots are thin, leaving an interval of 3-5 cm between onion young. The closer the plants are to each other, the smaller the size the bulbs will be. If your region is not Krasnodar Territory, it is better to use the sowing for growing.
How to properly plant the onion in spring
Planting onions in spring on the head begin after stabilizing the warm weather. Frozen plants will not die, but will inevitably go to the arrow, and the harvest will be spoiled. It's good to use your own bulb stock. If properly stored, there will be no unpleasant surprises. If the spring was early, you can plant sevots before the end of April. If not, it is better to wait until the beginning or middle of May.
How to prepare a place for
Large onion heads in the open ground grow when the place for plants is selected correctly:
- The bed should be as light as possible. Shadows of trees and tall plants greatly reduce the yield of this crop.
- In wet and poorly drained areas bulbs grow watery, rot, become unfit for winter storage.
- Good predecessors of onions are carrots, legumes, potatoes.
When planting onions in spring, the head needs minimal tillage, surface loosening to a depth of ten centimeters. Well, if in autumn the garden was filled with humus or compost. Add to the ground fresh organic material just before planting is not necessary. It provokes the growth of green mass, but it slows the development of the head. In a drought growing onions will have to be watered.
Preparation of the
seeding. The onion material of the onion is carefully selected and prepared. Onions should be clean, dense, free from stains and mold. Too small and too large plants are not suitable for growing the heads. The ideal diameter of the seed is from 14 to 20 mm. Such a bow does not shoot, loses its late-spring frosts without losses, quickly grows. With the proper pre-sowing treatment of the seedling, this caliber is not sick, gives a generous harvest.
It is necessary to treat the onion before planting for the purpose of disinfection. To do this, use common salt, copper sulfate or old-good manganese. Soak sowing you need in a solution of manganese in a dark pink color. The salt mixture is based on one tablespoon of sodium chloride or potassium permanganate per liter of water. Before soaking planting material it would be good to warm up for five to seven days at a temperature of 40-50 degrees, placing it near the radiator, the boiler.
Landing
When the temperature of the land in the cottage rises to +12 degrees, you can start work. Planting onions in spring on the head is carried out in rows. The arrangement of the onions is usual: the rows are located at a distance of 15-20 cm, the plants in the row are from 5 cm. The shallow grooves are made on the treated soil, the sowing is slightly pressed into them, covered with earth. A week later the garden will be decorated with a green onion pen that looks out of the soil in even rows.
Proper care
Onions do not need complex care. All he needs is loose soil, sun and moisture. It is necessary to weed the bed in time, water it in the heat and loosen the soil after the rain. Do we need top dressing for planting, planted on the turnip? This question should be approached thoughtfully, and use fertilizer carefully. If the garden has been hummed from the autumn, compost - that's enough.
Remember how to feed onions on the head, if you think it is necessary. Excellent influence on the growth of plants infusion of grass. Application:
- Add any greens to the barrel. Add chicken droppings, fresh mullein or a little yeast. Insist for a week in the sun, strain.
- This product, diluted in a proportion of 1 to 10, is a good top dressing for any vegetables.
- Use the miracle potion to water the onion, which has four green leaves( a feather).
- In the second half of summer, growing heads need not be fed, this will negatively affect their storage.
How to collect and store the
crop 3-4 weeks before the expected harvest time, the irrigation is completely stopped. The heads must ripen, draw a proper amount of scales, dry. Dig up the plants after a full lodging of the leaves. It is advisable to organize a collection when it's dry and hot outside. Well-dried onion-turnip is saved in winter with minimal losses. Bulbs of different varieties are stored separately. Rules:
- Store heads in wooden boxes, baskets, bags of natural material. Do not use for this polyethylene bags, plastic containers.
- The ideal temperature, allowing you to keep grown until the new season - from 18 to 22 degrees.
- It is important to remember that sharp varieties are stored better than semisweet ones, and heads of traditional, golden color are better than red and white ones.
- From time to time, sort out the vegetables, discarding all the suspicious bulbs.
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