Planting onions: how and when to be large

Onion is a vegetable crop that is grown by almost every gardener. This is due to the fact that onions are one of the most popular ingredients for cooking, a useful addition to the diet. That is why many summer residents are wondering: how to plant onions so that there are large bulbs? To get a good harvest, onion planting should be carried out taking into account several rules: choosing a place, selecting planting material, determining the optimal season.

Preparing the soil for spring planting

Before you start planting a crop, you need to understand what kind of soil the onion loves. First of all, it should be understood that the onion crop is actively growing and developing in conditions of good light and heat.

If the plant experiences a lack of light, the bulbs will not develop, and soon the planting will fade. Therefore, the best option for growing onions are the central places in the garden, next to which no trees grow, no tall buildings are located.

Then you need to determine the type of soil, the earth is diagnosed using litmus paper. Onion loves sandy or sandy soil. Under such conditions, the plant forms a he althy, powerful root system, and also ripens in a timely manner.

Next, you need to know how to prepare a bed for onions, the preparatory activities are as follows:

In autumn, the bed is fertilized with rotted manure or ash. Such fertilizers contain a large amount of nutrients that help the onion develop. The optimal amount of fertilizer per 1 square meter: 6 kilograms.
The entire ridge needs to be dug to a depth of 20 centimeters.
All debris and weeds are removed from the soil.
After the soil is fertilized, it must be leveled with a rake and left in this state until the onset of the spring period.

This soil preparation will allow you to get a he althy, large onion crop. In the spring, you need to re-dig the soil. This will distribute the nutrients evenly in the ground.

Preparation of planting material

To get a good harvest, onions must be processed before planting. First of all, the bulbs are moved. For planting, only he althy bulbs, on the surface of which there are no damages, can be used.

Further, the preparation of planting material must be carried out using the instructions:

The selected sets are distributed by size. This is necessary for uniform growth of onions.
Planting material is left to dry at a temperature of 35 degrees for 3 days. If it is not possible to dry the onion in this way, it must be calcined in the oven at a temperature of 40 degrees. Oven time is 4 hours.
Then the sevok is immersed in the osta stimulator for 8 hours.
The bulbs are removed from the fertilizer and immersed in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for 10 minutes.
The planting material is then rinsed and used for planting.

Such processing and soaking of onions before planting activates metabolic processes in the bulbs, improves their germination, protects against diseases.

How to properly plant an onion on a turnip?

To get a he althy plant, a developed turnip, we plant the seedlings in the ground only when it warms up to 12 degrees.In most cases, spring onions are planted on a turnip in mid-April or early May. Landing is best done in cloudy weather, while the street should be dry. Then holes are made in the garden according to the following principle:

between plants in a row there should be a distance of at least 15 centimeters;
the distance between rows should be 30 centimeters;
seedlings should be deepened into holes or grooves by 7-10 centimeters.

After planting the seedlings, the soil should be watered. To do this, you need to use settled water. It is desirable that it be at room temperature.

If during planting the summer resident made a mistake and placed the bulbs close, they need to be thinned out. Otherwise, crops will be deficient in nutrients during the growing season.In this case, the growth of the bulbs will stop, and the root system will begin to intertwine. During this period, it will be difficult to thin out the plants.

Planting onions in July or spring

If the summer resident decided to plant a plant in July or spring, he needs to prepare the beds for onions in the fall. There are several differences between growing a crop in spring or summer.

If a summer resident wants to grow onions from seed material, sowing should be organized immediately after the soil warms up, the snow melts. Only with such a planting will the onion have time to ripen. If the gardener has seedlings that were sown in the last days of February, they should be transplanted into the ground in mid-April. If the summer resident wants to plant a turnip in the spring, the recommendations indicated above will be needed. In this case, sevok is used as planting material.

Many summer residents, in order to get a richer harvest, plant sevok twice. It is worth considering that only in the conditions of the southern climate is it possible to grow onions in July. July planting can only be carried out if the summer season ends in mid or late September.

When planting onions in the summer, it is necessary to harvest at the end of August, so only early-ripening crop varieties should be used for planting. A July vegetable is planted in a similar way.

Sowing seeds

In most cases, a turnip vegetable is grown in 2 years. Such cultivation is typical for sowing a plant using seeds. From the sown seeds of nigella grows onion sets, which are used for growing turnips the next year. The temperature and scheme of planting, sowing seeds is determined using the following instructions:

First, the seeds are soaked in warm water. Such a procedure is necessary in order to select he althy seeds and discard empty ones.
After 24 hours, the water drains. Only seed that has fallen to the bottom is taken from the bowl.
Selected seeds are placed in gauze, wrapped and placed in a dark place.
After the seeds dry, they are treated with a solution of potassium permanganate.
After disinfection, the material is dried and used for sowing.

Soil preparation for sowing is carried out according to the above instructions. Then the summer resident can start sowing:

grooves are made in open ground conditions, the depth of which is 2-4 centimeters;
between the rows is a distance of 10-30 centimeters.
furrows are watered with hot water to disinfect the soil;
seeds are sown at a distance of 1-3 centimeters from each other;
then re-irrigate the beds using room temperature water;
beds are covered with foil.

After sprouts appear on the surface of the soil, the film can be removed.

How to plant winter onions?

For planting before winter, it is necessary to use small-sized sets. Planting material grown in spring should be planted 3-4 weeks before the soil freezes. It is better to plant onions when the ambient temperature drops to 5 degrees.

Planting a winter variety is carried out according to the instructions:

Furrows 3-4 cm deep are formed on the ridge.
The furrows are located at a distance of 10-15 centimeters from each other.
Sevok is planted in furrows at a distance of 3-10 centimeters from each other. The distance is determined by the estimated dimensions of the turnip: the larger the variety forms a turnip, the longer the distance between sets should be.
The furrows are sprinkled with earth, covered with mulch. Dry leaves, humus, spruce branches, tops, sawdust, pine needles are used as mulch.

After the onset of spring, the melting of snow, it is necessary to remove the mulch. This will allow the soil to warm up faster. Then the earth is loosened, the plants are fed with chicken droppings diluted in water. When the leaves appear, you need to make a second top dressing. The best option for this is the drug Plantafol.

Onion harvesting begins when the leaves fall to the ground and the scales of the onion acquire the characteristic color of the variety. Onions are dug out very carefully, left to dry in a ventilated area. After the bulbs have dried, they can be stored.

Onion care in the open field

During the cultivation of the plant, it is necessary not only to process the onion before planting, but also to provide other necessary care. To get a good onion harvest, you need to follow a few simple rules:

watering planting is required once a week;
use only settled water for irrigation;
when dry weather, water twice a week;
after watering or rain, the soil must be carefully loosened;
all emerging weeds must be removed in a timely manner;
as a remedy for the prevention of fungal and viral diseases of onions, copper sulfate can be used;
in July, the amount of watering needs to be reduced in order for the turnips to fully ripen.

After the appearance of the first shoots, the plants should be thinned out if necessary.

Chinese way of growing bulbs

In addition to the traditional cultivation method, there is also a Chinese one. Growing large onions from planting material was invented by the Chinese by forming ridges, not ridges. The ridges are formed so that they rise above the ground by 15-20 centimeters, a distance of at least 30 centimeters is maintained between them.Instructions for planting onions in the Chinese way:

The prepared sevok is immersed in the ridges 2-3 centimeters deep, sprinkled with earth, compacted a little.
The comb is poured with water.
Then the soil is loosened.

It is better to plant onions in the Chinese way early in the morning to protect them from the sun. This planting method allows you to grow a rich crop of large, fully ripe and fully formed onions.