Features of growing onions. How to grow onion from sets
How great it is in summer and winter to always have fresh herbs on hand, for example, an onion feather. After all, it is so often needed for salads and pies, and it is very easy to grow it right on the windowsill. In this article you will find 2 step by step instructions how to grow green onion houses on the water or in the ground.
Method 1. How to grow onions for greens in water
It would seem that this method of growing onions at home is so simple and known to everyone that it does not even require instructions. After all, you just need to put the head in the water and wait for the harvest. However, this method has two problems - the rapid decay of the vegetable and the appearance bad smell. To minimize these costs and speed up the growth process, we suggest growing onions according to the following improved instructions.
What you will need:
- Ordinary bulb from the store. Ideally, it is better to pick up an already sprouted bow with small arrows. However, any medium-sized onion will do, as long as the head is dense and healthy.
- A glass or jar with a small neck.
- Settled water.
- Activated charcoal 1-2 tablets.
Instruction:
Step 1. First of all, you need to prepare the bulb for forcing. To do this, first clean the onion from the top layer of the husk, pierce its root cup with a skewer and cut off the top of the head by 1-1.5 cm as shown in the photo (if the onion is already germinated, then you do not need to cut off the top).
Step 3. After one day, when the roots grow on the onion, you can drain the water from the glass a little so that the water covers only them and does not touch the cup. This simple technique will allow the onion to rot longer and not emit an unpleasant odor.
Step 4. It remains only to wait 2 weeks and during this time periodically change the water. Once the feathers have grown to about 15 cm, it's time to harvest.
Tips and Tricks:
- To keep the onion from rotting even longer, add 1-2 tablets of activated charcoal to the water.
- If you want to sprout a lot of onions at home, while spending a minimum of effort, purchase at the store hydroponic installation"Onion Happiness". It works as follows: 20 heads are inserted into the wells, the container is filled with water, then the compressor creates an air-water environment. Due to the fact that the root cups almost do not come into contact with water, the bulbs do not rot, and due to the saturation of the roots with oxygen, they give 2 crops per month with a length of 30-40 cm.
- It is very convenient to germinate a dozen bulbs in an egg pack on the windowsill at once. In order to build such a “hydroponic installation” with your own hands, you just need to divide the container into two halves, cut holes in the cells of the upper “tier”, and fill the lower “pan” with water and cut off excess tubercles from it. Then fold the two parts on top of each other and put wooden skewers between them, as shown in the photo below.
- By the same principle, you can grow leeks bought in a store with your own hands on a windowsill. To do this, cut off the white roots from the feathers (pictured below), and then place them in a container of water, only 1 cm deep. Leave the roots for 2 weeks in water, changing it periodically (preferably every day). However, a week after forcing, when young shoots appear, the leek can be transplanted into the ground.
Method 2. How to grow onions for greens in the ground
It is best to grow onions on a feather at home in the ground, and not in water. It's almost as simple, but the bulb will be able to produce at least 2 crops, stand for 1-2 months and still have little to no smell. In addition, if you plant turnips in a pretty pot, then your mini-bed will also decorate your windowsill.
What you will need:
- Priming. In winter, you can purchase suitable soil in the store (for example, it can be a mixture for cacti with a high content of sand, or simply universal primer), and in the summer - take the soil from the nearest land plot.
- Several small healthy bulbs, preferably not fresh, but lain down for a couple of months and lowered the sprouts. If you wish, you can grow sevok on a feather, but then you will have to wait longer for the feathers, and you won’t be able to use the germinated sevok a second time. Another alternative to onions is leeks. It must first be germinated in water for 7 days (as described in the first instruction) and only then transplanted into the ground.
- Container, pot or any other suitable size container.
- Settled water for irrigation.
Instruction:
Step 1. From the selected turnips, remove one layer of the top husk, cut off 1-1.5 cm of the tops (if the bulbs are without sprouts), and then soak their root cups for a couple of hours or more in warm water so that they germinate a little. All these tricks will accelerate the growth of feathers.
Step 2. While the bulbs are soaking, we fill the soil with a depth of 4-7 cm into the container.
Step 3. Now we plant bulbs or sets every 2 cm, but without deepening. That is, so that only the root cups of the heads are in contact with the soil. Remember that the less contact the bulb has with the soil, the less likely it is to rot. When you have planted all the onions, water the ground with a small amount of warm water so that the soil becomes slightly moist, and the onions do not get wet.
- To plant sevok on a feather, you need to use loose soil and onions plant a depth of 1-2 cm tightly to each other.
- To plant a leek, it must also be dug into loose soil to a depth of 2 cm. However, it will take longer to wait for the harvest - about three weeks.
Step 4. You should not immediately place the onion bed on the windowsill: it is better to put it in a dark, cool place for germination for just a few days. If you planted an already lying and sprouted onion, then you can do without this stage.
STEP 5. Well, that's it. Now it remains only to wait a couple of weeks, when the greens grow to 15 cm, and at this time lightly water the garden bed once every 3-4 days. You need to cut off mature feathers in the middle of the bunch and not too close to the bulb, then it will have sprouts that will soon give the next crop.
Tips and Tricks:
- To save space on the windowsill, you can create vertical garden. To do this, take a 5-liter plastic bottle with a stable bottom, cut off its neck, make several holes in the bottom and cut holes in a checkerboard pattern on the walls with an interval of 3-4 cm (you will get about 4 tiers). Then gradually start filling the bottle with soil.
- As soon as the soil reaches the first tier, place the bulbs in the holes as shown in the photo above, water the soil and repeat the steps to fill the bottle to the very top. Put the bottle on a plate and water the soil every 4 days for 2 weeks.
- Leek and onion can be grown in the same garden.
- Another secret: to always have fresh herbs, grow onions in 2-3 containers, planting them every 10 days. Then you get a "vitamin conveyor".
- To speed up the growth process and improve the taste of greens, in the evening and at night the bed on the windowsill can be illuminated with a fluorescent lamp. This advice is especially relevant in winter.
- Also, for greater juiciness, you can periodically spray feathers, but so that moisture does not fall on the turnips themselves.
- In summer, make sure that the temperature in the area of \u200b\u200bthe windowsill where onions grow does not rise above 30 °. Otherwise, the pen will stop growing. To protect the crop from overheating, you can wrap the tray with foil.
Care Tips:
- The main problem with this planting of onions is an insufficient amount of moisture. To keep it in the soil. You can lay a layer of mulch at least 5 cm high on the bed. It will keep the earth from drying out, delay the development of annual weeds. But this method is too laborious for large beds. More often, to maintain moisture, the soil has to be watered. When the tops begin to turn yellow, stop watering. Bulbs grown in dry soil store better, but are smaller and taste more bitter.
- In order for the onion to grow large and tasty, you need to periodically fertilize it. After the first feathers appear on the bed, ammonium nitrate is added by dissolving a tablespoon of the substance in a bucket of water. After the bulbs have 4 feathers, repeat feeding with nitrophoska. 50 g is diluted in a bucket of water.
- Water after fertilization clean water and loosen the soil between the rows. You need to loosen as often as possible. This contributes to the fact that the soil becomes looser, and the onion grows large and of high quality.
- So that the bulbs do not rot in winter and are well stored, they must be protected from fungal diseases. Most often this is . Used for prevention and control Bordeaux liquid or other preparations containing copper. After processing, the feather should not be eaten.
It is important to remove onions from the garden in time. You can determine the degree of readiness by the color and condition of the tops. In a mature onion, it is yellow, dried up. This usually happens in early August.
If you want the onions to ripen faster, pull each onion out of the ground a little.
For the successful implementation of this operation, it is enough to take the bulb closer to the ground and pull it a little, until the first crunch of the torn roots. Leave the bulbs to ripen for several days (up to a week). But the weather these days should be dry. If rain is coming, it is better to harvest the crop unripe and place it under a canopy.
If the crop still got caught in the rain, it must then be dried for fresh air to prevent the bulbs from rotting. After the bulbs are completely pulled out of the ground, they should be dried a little more. You can do it right in the garden. But keep in the sun for a short time so that the bulbs do not get burned. Store onions in a cool dry place. Periodically review, remove sprouted or damaged bulbs.
More information can be found in the video:
In addition to the well-known onion at home, you can grow chives, shallots, slime and multi-tiered onions. Now we will look at how to grow onions at home and what to consider when choosing one or another variety.
- Shallots are popular because they produce almost twice as many feathers as onions and grow about a week earlier. The only feature of this species is the mandatory cutting 30-35 days after planting. If you forget about it, there is a great risk of losing the harvest. In addition, it is advisable to plant shallots no earlier than mid-February, otherwise the plant will germinate very slowly. The bulb you just cut the feathers from can be reused: cut it crosswise, plant it again and later a short time harvest again.
- The advantage of chives is that the arrows of this type grow several times faster than onions - they will be ready for use in just a week after planting. After cutting, the arrows grow back within two weeks.
- The bow-batun is quite famous. Its main advantage is high speed growth. True, the pen coarsens over time, and therefore it needs to be cut off after a maximum of a month.
- Tiered onions produce more yield than onions, while having very delicate feathers that are ready for cutting on average 25 days after planting.
- The main difference between the slime onion and other species is that the leaves of this variety remain juicy and tender throughout the growing season. Feathers are cut at a height of up to 25 cm.
Instructions for growing onions on the windowsill
The most effective and easiest option to grow onions at home is the forcing method on a feather (through the germination of a root crop). It is better to take the bulbs of the same size (no more than 3 cm), they must be healthy and strong, without damage. Selected root crops are placed in a container with warm water(up to 40 degrees) and put it near the radiator for a day.
After that, examine the bulbs again, remove upper layer peel and cut off the top by 1.5 cm. For growing, take any wooden box or plastic container up to 10 cm deep. It is best to prepare several containers so that the plant can be grown using conveyor methods - in this case, you will not need to wait until the next one sprouts portion of onion.
As a soil for planting, use ordinary garden soil or a substrate (fine gravel, sand or expanded clay). Wash the substrate twice before use. The first time - in a hot solution of potassium permanganate, the second - in running clean water. We fill the container with soil to a height of up to 4 cm. Lower the prepared root crops into the soil every 2 cm, trying to keep them in vertical position. Do not bury the root crops much in the ground so that they do not rot.
To grow good harvest, it is necessary to competently take care of seedlings after planting. So, the container with plantings should be placed in a warm place (the temperature should exceed +25 ° C). When the first stems appear, transfer the container to the windowsill. In this case, it is desirable to choose windows facing south or southwest. If there is not enough sunlight for plants, try highlighting containers with seedlings with fluorescent lamps.
Only in the case of normal lighting, green feathers will be able to accumulate useful trace elements, acquiring a rich aroma and taste.
Planted root crops should be watered 3 times a week with exceptionally warm water. The main thing is that the water is constantly just below the soil surface, the soil should not dry out, because during the growth period, the onion needs a lot of water. Do not cut off the first arrows that have grown, this can stop the growth of green mass. It is desirable to cut off the feathers 20-25 days after planting, while first the extreme arrows are cut off and only then the central ones. In order for the green mass to grow constantly, the interval between planting onions in boxes should be 1.5 weeks.
We grow onions in water - the original way
There is another way to grow onions on your windowsill or balcony - use not soil, but water for planting. True, this method is quite laborious and requires certain skills. To grow plants in this way, take large and already sprouted root crops (from 4 cm or more) and several deep containers. In order for the root crops to grow and not rot, they must be placed in the selected container so that only the lower part of the bulb with regrown roots is in the water.
To support the root crop in this position, use cardboard with a hole cut out - cover the glass with the structure and place the bulb in the hole. Thanks to this, the root crop will confidently stay in the desired position. The bulb is kept in a glass of water for 3 to 5 days, after which the container is moved to the windowsill.
Before the formation of roots, the water in a glass or plate must be changed twice a day, when feathers begin to grow - once a day. In this case, it is necessary to rinse under running water. pure water the roots themselves and dishes. By the way, it is advisable to take water for growing bulbs either bottled or settled during the day.
radish at home. Feathers that have grown above 20 cm are cut off, the bulbs themselves are thrown away - they are not suitable for re-planting. By the way, fertilizing onions is undesirable - for normal growth, it will have enough sunlight and water. Well, now you know how to plant onions at home and how to grow them so that you can enjoy them all winter long. useful products. We hope our tips will help you with this.
You plan to plant onions on your plot, but you don’t know how to achieve a good harvest and have time to grow large bulbs before the first frost? Most gardeners prefer to grow onions from small onion sets - this method has been tested for years and always gives excellent results.
How to grow black onion sets
Sevok requires less care than seedlings and seeds, plants develop more successfully even on poor soils. Due to resistance to low temperatures planting onion sets in open ground starts early - you will get early harvest. Powerful root system saves little onions vegetable crop heat and weeds. Of the three main ways to grow onions, sets are best suited for sharp and semi-sharp varieties.
You can buy ready-made sets in a specialized store or on the market, or you can grow it yourself from seeds (nigella). In order to collect onion sets by autumn, you need to start growing it in the spring, and then next season you can start growing onion turnips from ordinary sets.
Soak fresh seeds (not older than 2 years) for a couple of hours in water and place them in a damp burlap for 2-3 days so that the seeds begin to germinate. Dry thoroughly after soaking. Seeds can be sown at the end of April in previously prepared and cultivated soil. Make rows at a distance of 9-11 cm from each other, scatter the seeds in them completely, fill the grooves with humus or peat for 2 cm on top.
Sevka seedling care:
- as seedlings germinate, they need to be thinned out to get larger bulbs;
- loosen the soil regularly, especially after rain;
- water the bed often, but not abundantly;
- feed with solutions, such as mullein (1:10).
With the formation of bulbs, watering, fertilizing and loosening the soil should be stopped. When the green leaves wither and fall completely, and the neck of the bulbs softens and becomes thinner, the seedlings can be collected from the garden and dried.
With the formation of bulbs, watering, fertilizing and loosening the soil should be stopped.
And if you want the cultivation of onion turnips from sets to be successful, you need to provide optimal conditions for winter storage sevka. Well-dried sevok is placed in boxes with a layer of 6-8 cm or in thin bags weighing 2-3 kg and stored in a warm, ventilated room with a temperature of + 15 + 19 degrees. Before planting, the seedlings are necessarily sorted out, diseased, sprouted and dried onions are removed, and also sorted by size (diameter from 1 to 2.6 cm). To get friendly shoots, first plant small bulbs, then large ones.
Before planting, the sevok must be sorted out, diseased, sprouted and dried onions are removed, and also sorted by size.
Planted sevok, got a turnip
Calibrated onion sets, needs additional processing for more uniform and faster germination, before planting in the ground. Carefully cut off the dry part of the neck of small onions, being careful not to touch the sprout, otherwise the first leaves will not grow to their full potential and remain damaged. After pruning, soak the seedlings in water at room temperature for 10-12 hours. To prevent diseases, you can pour onion sets with a solution of copper sulfate (1 teaspoon per 9-10 liters of water) for 5-10 minutes. Then rinse the bulbs in running water, and you can start landing.
It is best to start growing onions on a turnip at the end of April, or you can wait until the beginning of May for the earth to warm up above +12 degrees, otherwise the bulbs will quickly give an arrow. If planted later, due to high temperature plants will grow slowly.
It is best to start growing onions on a turnip at the end of April or you can wait until the beginning of May
Although the onion is quite unpretentious, it is better to grow it on loamy and sandy fertile soils, heavy and acidic soils are not suitable for planting. It is recommended to apply organic fertilizers to the soil in the fall, then both green feathers and bulbs will develop harmoniously.
Level the beds, tamp a little and apply the planting pattern: the distance between the bulbs in one row should be about 10 cm, and the row spacing should be at least 16-19 cm. in the moist soil layer, which will provide fast growth bulbs. With a shallow planting, due to a lack of nutrition, the bulbs slow down development, and then die altogether.
How to grow a large onion turnip? For this you need:
- water it during the growth period, especially during the appearance of leaves and the formation of bulbs, stopping watering a month before harvest;
- loosen the top layer of soil at least 4-7 times over the summer (small bulbs will grow in dense soil);
- carry out top dressing - a couple of weeks after the appearance of your seedlings, with mullein infusions, and for 40-45 days with solutions of mineral fertilizers;
- do not cut green feather onions (either you grow onions for greens, or to get large bulbs).
Onion harvesting is carried out in the third decade of August, when the onion feather is completely fall
Onion harvesting is carried out in the third decade of August, when the onion feather completely falls. Remove the greens from the onions and dry the bulbs in the garden (or under a canopy in wet weather) until the outer onion peel will not become "rattling". Drying usually takes about a week.
Not a single dish is complete without onions. Do you want to learn how to grow it yourself? Then be sure to read our article. In it you will find detailed instructions on growing onions and describing the main methods of cultivating vegetables.
We will also help in growing green onions: photos and videos will be useful for those who want to grow them on the windowsill.
Growing onions
This plant was cultivated by man very early. Onions came to America after the expedition of Christopher Columbus, who not only discovered this overseas spice, but was also related to the beginning of cultivation on the continent.
Bulb onions - biennial plant, which has a characteristic odor due to the presence of sulfur and essential oils in it.
Vegetable phytoncides destroy streptococci, diphtheria, dysentery and tuberculosis bacilli.
Everyone can grow it: traditionally (in a two-year culture), from purchased seeds, from a sample. In any case, the vegetable needs the same soil conditions and care.
Consider the most popular varieties of onions(picture 1):
- Arzamas - maturation period up to 100 days. It is well kept in the winter and does not constitute problems at leaving. Bitter in taste.
- Moldavian- Very productive variety. Well preserved and considered universal.
- Bessonovsky- sharp look. Keeps up to 9 months almost without loss. Unpretentious to care.
- Siberian annual- mainly grown from seeds. The bulb produces many green feathers. The variety is resistant to shooting, perfectly preserved.
- Strigunovsky- refers to early varieties. Well preserved, resistant to rot. Sharp and bitter in taste.
Picture 1. Popular varieties: 1 - Arzamas, 2 - Moldavian, 3 - Bessonovsky, 4 - Siberian annual, 5 - Strigunovsky There are also many varieties for middle lane Russia, giving a rich harvest with minimum effort and costs (Figure 2):
- Stuttgarner- grown by seedlings or seedlings. The taste is bittersweet.
- Shetana- suitable for cultivation in northern regions. The crop is well preserved.
- Odintsovo - early varieties. Can be used for forcing greens.
- Danilovsky 301 and Commissar- belong to mid-season varieties. Fruit purple hue are large enough. They keep up to six months.
- Albion f1- bulbs white color. The plant tolerates adverse climatic conditions disease resistant.
Figure 2. Varieties for central Russia: 1 - Stuttgarner, 2 - Shetana, 3 - Odintsovets, 4 - Danilovsky, 5 - Albion f1 What is useful onion
Onions are rich in protein, maltose, sucrose, fructose, polysaccharides, proteins, fats, acids (citric and malic), as well as a whole complex of vitamins and chemical elements(Figure 3).
The vegetable is widely used in cooking and the canning industry. It is used in raw, sautéed, fried, boiled, salted and pickled forms.
Figure 3 Beneficial features onion In industry, they are used in the production of canned meat, in the processing of fish, sausages, and spicy sauces.
The vegetable activates the metabolism, stimulates the work of the digestive organs and hematopoietic organs, helps cleanse the blood, and removes excess fluid from the body. Also used in cosmetic purposes: activates hair growth, moisturizes and cleanses the skin.
But still, you should not get too carried away with onions, as this can negatively affect the work of the kidneys. You should also be careful in the use of raw vegetables and its juice for people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and serious heart diseases. However, even with such diseases, it can be consumed in moderation in boiled or baked form.
Soil preparation for planting
Most high yield the culture gives on chernozem and humus-calcareous soils, as well as on alluvial soil.
Since the seeds germinate for a long time, you should carefully prepare the soil in advance.
Figure 4. Preparing the beds for planting onions Since autumn, you should dig the site to the depth of a shovel, remove weeds and add humus or peat-dung compost to the soil. Fresh manure is not recommended, due to the risk of introducing pathogens and weed seeds into the soil. On acidic soils it is necessary to additionally carry out liming, and on solonetsous - gypsum, it should be noted that the introduction of humus and lime should not be carried out simultaneously.
With the advent of spring, the soil should be loosened with a rake and mineral fertilizers should be applied, distributing them over 2-3 top dressings during the growth period. At the same time, fertilizers are applied shallowly.
Note: Sunny places or light partial shade are well suited for growing onions (Figure 4).
In crop rotation, onions are placed after tomatoes, cucumbers, early cabbage and legumes. The culture is returned to its original place after 3 years.
How to grow onions
You can plant onions with seeds or bulbs, both in spring and autumn. It is planted in early autumn to produce green feathers for spring. With the advent of spring, they are grown to store and receive planting material.
To save the harvest of winter crops, you can use agrofibre, which transmits light well. They carefully cover the bed before the onset of the first frost and remove it before the start of the growing season.
Winter onions are particularly sensitive to weeds, so they need to be regularly weeded and watered.
Growing onions from sevka
There are several ways to grow. Each of them has its own characteristics, but in general, if you follow the rules for caring for the plant, you can get a good harvest, regardless of the method of cultivation. It is considered traditional to obtain onions from sets (Figure 5).
Note: Sevok are small onions from which you can get large heads. There are large and small sets. It is planted both in spring and autumn.
Spring planting is carried out in late April - early May. They start with small bulbs (up to 1 cm in diameter), planting them at a distance of 4-5 cm from each other. A little later, large ones are planted at intervals of 8-10 cm. They should be well compressed with soil and sprinkled with a ball of earth by about 3 cm.
Figure 5. Planting sevka Before sowing, it is necessary to check the seeds for germination. To do this, a dozen onions are wrapped in several layers of damp cloth and left in a warm place. If they germinate soon, then the seeds are suitable for sowing.
You must also take care of seed disinfection if you use your own planting material. For this purpose, they use folk remedies like soaking in a weak solution of potassium permanganate or warming up in hot water.
Note: To speed up the emergence of seedlings, planting material is soaked 4 days before sowing, then dried and sown immediately.
To preserve moisture in the soil, the site is mulched with grass, compost, humus. If mulching has not been carried out, it is necessary to monitor the maintenance of the desired level of soil moisture, especially in dry weather. When the bulbs have formed, watering is carried out less frequently, allowing the vegetable to ripen.
For autumn planting prefer onions of small diameter sharp varieties. Winter varieties ripen later than spring, plants are practically not damaged by pests, since their root system has time to form even before the breeding season of flies. Thus, it becomes inaccessible for laying eggs.
Having decided on the variety, choose a dry, well-warmed place by the sun. The earth is dug up (loosened) and brought organic fertilizer. Immediately before landing, make wood ash. Then form high beds(so that the onion does not freeze). Planted with an interval of 7-10 cm from each other and a distance between rows of 20-25 cm. After planting, the beds should be slightly compacted and sprinkled with humus.
Note: All this work should be done before the onset of permanent frosts.
In winter, when sufficient snow cover appears, it is necessary to cover the bed with another layer of natural insulation ( fir branches, straw).
With the onset of spring, the mulch and natural heaters are removed, as water stagnation in the garden is possible, and, as a result, the bulbs will be too wet.
Top dressing should be carried out at the beginning of the formation of the future crop, using superphosphates. Until July, it is necessary to constantly water and loosen the ground.
Cultivation by sowing in open ground
The scheme of planting in open ground depends on the planting material and is carried out in several ways: from seeds, seedlings or sets (Figure 6).
The first method cultivates sweet and semi-sweet varieties. The prepared seeds are soaked until swelling, then dried and sown in a pre-prepared fertilized bed, watered abundantly and covered. With the advent of the first shoots, the cover is removed, the shoots are thinned out and the area is mulched. The second thinning is carried out after three weeks.
Figure 6. Landing in open ground Seedlings produce sweet and peninsular varieties. The prepared planting material is sown in special boxes two months before transplanting seedlings into open ground. Sowing is carried out densely, to a depth of 1 cm. In the resulting seedlings, immediately before planting, it is necessary to shorten the roots and leaves by a third.
Sharp varieties are grown from sevka. It is planted in the spring to a depth of 4-5 cm with an interval of 8-10 cm in a bed prepared in advance.
Growing in open field provides for regular watering, loosening, cleaning from weeds, pests and top dressing.
How to plant onions on greens on the windowsill
Green onions are one of the first and indispensable remedies in the fight against colds. It helps to overcome beriberi and fatigue, improves digestion and improves immunity.
To get green onions in winter, it is necessary to germinate the bulbs themselves (Figure 7).
Note: For greens, it is better to grow Strigunovsky, Timiryazevsky and Arzamas varieties.
Selected specimens (they must be intact and approximately the same size) are lowered into a container with water at a temperature of +40 degrees and left in a warm place for a day.
Before planting, cut off the top by about one and a half centimeters. They are planted in containers (containers, bowls) with a depth of at least 7 cm. It is desirable to have several such containers in order to ensure uninterrupted cultivation.
Note: In order to constantly receive fresh greens, it is necessary to observe an interval between plantings of 10-12 days.
It is desirable to disinfect the substrate for planting - rinse with a dark hot solution of potassium permanganate and running water. The containers are being filled soil mixture 3-4 cm, a layer of water of 1 cm is poured on top. Prepared bulbs are planted 2 cm apart. In this case, only the roots should be in the water.
The containers are kept at a temperature of about +25 degrees for the first week. After the appearance of leaves 2 cm high, the boxes are transferred to a cooler place.
Figure 7. Ways to grow green onions on a windowsill When grown on a windowsill, vegetables are provided with the following care:
- Plant loves sunlight, therefore, with its lack, you can use fluorescent lamps.
- Watering is done with warm water every other day.
- The first green leaves are not cut, so as not to stop the subsequent growth. The first cut can be done three weeks after planting. Since the leaves grow from the middle, it is best to cut off the outer feathers.
Another popular method of obtaining fresh vegetables is growing in water. The bulbs are pre-treated as described above, then stacked tightly on a shallow tray in an upright position. Then water is poured onto the tray so that it covers a quarter of the bulbs and is added as it evaporates. After two weeks, green feathers appear.
Green onions do not need additional feeding, since everything nutrients he receives from the roots.
The author of the video will tell you how to make a bed with such vegetables on the windowsill with your own hands.
Onion care
To obtain the desired yield, the plant needs care, which provides (Figure 8):
- loosening
- Watering
- weeding
- top dressing
- Prevention and treatment of diseases
The loosening process begins even before the emergence of seedlings, since the crust formed on the ground interferes with the constant access of air to the root system, which leads to a slowdown in the development of the plant. In addition, loosening helps to get rid of weeds. This procedure is also mandatory after watering.
Culture needs abundant watering at the beginning of its development. At this time, the plants are watered 1-2 times a week. At the ripening stage, watering is reduced, and just before harvesting, it is completely stopped.
Figure 8. Care onions in the garden Weeding prevents weeds from growing in the garden. The danger from weeds is that they increase soil moisture. As a result, plants can be affected by fungal diseases. In addition, waterlogging of the scales occurs, which leads to their decay during storage.
Feeding also plays an important role. For the first time, plants are fed two weeks after planting, using slurry or bird droppings. The second feeding follows three weeks after the first.
Note: If preference is given mineral fertilizers, then nitrogen-containing fertilizer (for example, ammonium nitrate) is first applied, then after three weeks potash fertilizer in the same amount. Such fertilizers can be applied both dry and in the form of a solution.
Preventive measures involve the processing of landings against onion fly and fungal diseases, dusting plants and earth with wood ash.
Onion harvesting and storage
Ripening time depends on planting time, variety and climate. Ripens the earliest winter onion. It is ready for harvest in July. By this time, the green leaves of the plant begin to dry out, which serves as a signal to start picking vegetables (Figure 9).
Note: It is impossible to postpone the collection, otherwise the plants may begin to re-grow roots. It is necessary to harvest the crop before the appearance of morning dew and evening cooling, otherwise the vegetables will not be stored well.
The harvested vegetables are laid out to dry in the sun. If the weather is rainy, dry under a canopy. At this time, all the nutrients from the remains of the leaves move into the bulbs themselves.
Dried leaves and the remains of the roots are cut off, after which the crop is laid out to dry in a warmer room (at a temperature of +25 -30 degrees) for 10 days. This is necessary for disinfection and improvement of keeping quality.
Figure 9. Onion harvesting and storage Sevok is stored in canvas bags in a dry room with good ventilation at a temperature of 0 degrees (for small sevka), with room temperature- for the big one.
Can be used for storage wooden boxes, bags, wicker baskets, armored nets. In any case, the storage container should not interfere with the free access of air.
Note: It is not recommended to store crops in plastic bags.
To protect the crop from rotting, it is necessary to regularly inspect it and remove spoiled or rotten vegetables.
The vegetable is well preserved in woven braids. Such a “braid” will serve as an excellent interior detail and protect the house from germs.
You will learn more information and collection time and methods of storing vegetables from the video.
