Everyone since childhood is familiar with an amazing vegetable named Cipollino. Yes, that is what the bow was called in a children's fairy tale, and he was there a little funny little man. This, of course, is all fiction; in fact, onion is the most ordinary vegetable.
However, it has many wonderful properties. For example, such as the ability to secrete volatile products - volatile substances that have the ability to kill pathogenic viruses and fungi. And it contains a lot of vitamins. All this together and made onions indispensable in all cuisines of the world. But in order to use it for cooking, you must first get a crop, but this is not an easy task.
Planting onions on a turnip - all the rules
Today, there are two options for getting good yields. The first - sowing seeds, the second - small onions (seeder). However, it is not always possible to obtain large and large specimens in autumn by using chernushka; small ones grow more often, suitable only for planting the next year. How to achieve a good harvest using onion seeds? You need to buy only those varieties that are bred specifically for such purposes. But even with their availability, achieving an excellent crop is quite difficult. After all, small sprouts emerging from chernushka are very tender and require care. They must be weeded, watered and fed to get large bulbs at the time of harvest. Therefore, this method of growing is not suitable for everyone because of the big hassles at the initial stage of plant development. Those who, for whatever reason, can not pay due attention to the garden, must make sure that the onion is planted on the turnip not with seeds, but with a seeder.
In this case, the trouble will be less, and the harvest will not take long. But this method also has its own characteristics. One of them is landing time. Two options are possible: in the winter or spring. In the first case, the seeder is planted in September-October, and the weather is selected so that the bulbs do not have time to disappear before the frost. In order to avoid freezing, the garden bed can be covered with fallen leaves or straw. In spring, shelter must be removed and loosened.
The second method assumes that the onion will be planted on turnips in April-May, again, the timing depends on the climate zone, as well as the weather established in the given period. And although the onion is a cold-resistant culture, however, having ascended at low temperatures, in the future it can go in the direction of arrows.
How to grow onions properly?
So, planting is just the beginning, for a good harvest you need appropriate care. Consider what it is. The most basic, especially when growing from seeds, is timely weeding and loosening of the soil after rains. In the future, fertilizing with complex fertilizers is mandatory. But here, every grower has his own opinion. Therefore, if you prefer organic farming, you can prepare special infusions from herbs, they also contain various trace elements.
Another problem during cultivation is diseases and pests, alternation of places for planting partially saves them. Planting onions on turnips in the old place should be carried out no earlier than two to three years later. But to be sure that nothing threatens the onion crop, it is better to carry out several treatments with the approved drugs.