Onions, as they used to say in antiquity, are from seven ailments. Do not forget about it and we. Official medicine prescribes pharmacy onion preparations - "Allylchep", "Allylglycer" and others. Widely used onions traditional medicine. It is a vitamin, healing, antibacterial, anti-atherosclerosis agent.
An alcohol extract from the bulbs is used for colitis, intestinal atony. It can increase secretion and tone in the gastrointestinal tract. For food, onions are used year-round. And he, like a brave soldier, is always ready - from the moment of the germination of the pen and ending with ripe onions, which are well kept. This vegetable is recognized by all as indispensable, but not everyone knows how to grow onions on a head. It takes a lot of time and effort.
In the first season, seeds are sown. Bulbs will grow from them in the diameter of only 1-3 cm. The seeds are stored until the next season, I plant on the garden in the spring. And only in the fall, if the summer is favorable, and onion diseases are bypassed, they collect food onions - large heads. To obtain black small seeds formed in inflorescences on the arrows, onions of the uterus are planted every spring. And so, year after year. But you can grow onions in one season, and now you will learn how.
Grow large onions yourself
In one summer, you can grow onion turnips from seeds or from seedlings. How to grow onions on a head? To do this, select the appropriate variety in relation to the region in which you live. Early ripening varieties - "goldenrod", "odinetsovets". Early ripening grade - "olina". From germination to lodging of the leaf - 100 days, yield - up to 5 kg from an area of 1 square. m. Early ripe hybrid "golden seed F" with a maturity of 90-100 days, shelf life - six months, with sq.m. - up to 5 kg, resistant to pathogens of major diseases. Suitable for all regions of Russia. Mid-early hybrid "Mars F1" (tasty, large red onion). A popular harvesting variety is "oporto", sow seeds under the film at the end of April or for seedlings on March 20. Mid-ripening varieties: "carmen" (purple scales, inside white-purple); "shetana" (scaly cover is yellow, inside is white). Surprisingly large onion turnips grow from the seeds of Dutch selection. 500-800 grams of seedlings grow in a seedling method per season sweet bulb type "Exhibit". The giant onion globo gives 1 kg of onion!
How to grow a good onion crop
Here is an agricultural technique for growing onions from seeds using the exibishen cultivar as an example. How to grow onions on a head from seedlings in Siberia? From the end of February to March 10, sow the seeds in a box. Pre-treatment for fungal diseases is carried out: wrap the seeds in a cloth and lower them in hot water for 15 minutes (50 degrees Celsius), then in cold water for 1 minute. Soak the seeds in warm water for 24 hours. After a day, drain the water and hold the seeds for the same amount in a damp tissue, preventing its drying out. Prepare the soil for seedlings from the ground from a cucumber bed. Sowing into grooves with a depth of 1 cm through 1-2 cm. Between the grooves the distance should be 2 cm. Sprinkle the seeds with well-decomposed humus, water carefully, without spreading the soil. Cover with foil and put in a warm place. Somewhere in 7-10 days shoots will appear. Transfer the box to the sunny windowsill. The temperature regime in the first week for survival: 22 degrees during the day, at night - 15-17.
In the second week, reduce the temperature to 10 degrees for 7 days, moving the box to a cool place so that the seedlings do not stretch out. After 2 weeks, feed the mullein infusion. Watering is moderate, every 3-4 days, preventing the soil from drying out. A transplant should be done in cloudy weather in the evening after the threat of frost disappears. Seedlings age 55-60 days.
The onion bed is prepared in the fall. It is well-humus-rich soil in a dry, sunny place (after cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, and legumes). Water the bed, draw a furrow with a peg through 20 cm 2 cm deep. Water the seedlings in the box the day before. Carefully taking out the plants, cut off the rhizomes, leaving them 2.5 cm. It would be nice to dip the bottom into a mash of clay and humus. Shorten the stems by 1/3. Planting depth - 1 cm more than in the drawer.
After planting, carefully pour the bed with warm water. Cover with lutrasil for the time of rooting (from a week). Further care: watering, 2 top dressing in June with mullein infusion per season, pest and weed control, cultivating row spacing, thinning (if necessary). Since July, onions are not watered or fed. Removed by lodging the pen. Do not pick the stems - the onion matures. Dry in a draft. For storage, select heads with a well-dried neck. You can cut it crosswise for better drying.
Now you know how to grow onions on a head from seedlings in your own garden. The harvest will be excellent, besides the onion is environmentally friendly!