Allium – the kind of decorative onions unpretentious in leaving and almost not requiring attention. It is enough to follow number of simple rules to receive good harvest on the seasonal dacha.
Cultivation of allium and care for it
Optimum time for landing of allium – fall or spring that depends on look and grade of decorative onions. For example, it is better to put ranotsvetushchy grades in September that bulbs have taken roots by the beginning of spring or have safely blossomed by summer. Pozdnotsvetushchy grades of allium should be put closer by May.
Carrying out landing of allium, it is necessary to watch landing depth: for the whole bulb depth of seal is about two diameters of bulb, and distance between saplings - about 0.5 m Besides, when landing bulb height has to be considered. It is better to land tall grades in depth of flower bed while undersized allium usually place on the bed foreground.
Within 4-5 years allium can grow without changes. The peduncle of allium begins to grow in the early spring, right after emergence of remnevidny or linear leaves. The pronounced garlic and onions smell is characteristic of leaves and peduncle of plant. Just before blossoming the leaves of allium begin to die off. It is not necessary to tear off them, they have to fall down in the natural way as till the beginning of process supply bulb with nutrients.
If the turning yellow leaves of onions spoil exterior of flower bed, it is possible to plant nearby other ornamental and krasivotsvetushchy plants which will hide unattractive features of leaves of allium. Decorative onions are well combined with the plants having the similar period of growth and blossoming. These are peonies, iris, poppy, lupine and some other. Krupnotsvetny grades of allium can be put randomly at the expense of what they will focus attention on themselves on all flower bed. It is better to put Melkotsvetny grades small group, decorating the certain site of flower bed.
In the course of vegetation allium actually does not demand waterings. It blossoms within about two months and further retires. Bulbs of plant accumulate nutrients in the earth therefore it is recommended to carry out scarification and fertilizing by potash fertilizers. Decorative onions well transfer drought and can winter without shelter. It should be noted that it is quite often struck by tripsa and other wreckers of onions and garlic.
Reproduction of allium
The plant is capable to breed bulbs, bulbs or seeds. During change it is enough to separate the expanded bulbs in the fall and to plant them at distance from each other. Spaces for each future plant has to be enough as change is carried out approximately time in 4-5 years.
It is possible to choose option of reproduction of decorative onions as seeds. For receiving good seed stuff it is better to sustain previously seeds under natural conditions, using for this purpose the first, largest and already deflowered inflorescences. However it is worth remembering that at seed reproduction of plant can have pale coloring of flowers.
In case of seed reproduction of decorative onions it is necessary to allocate for it small bed in soil. In the first year the bulbs growing from seeds practically do not exceed nail in sizes, reminding shoots of normal onions. Blossoming of saplings from seeds occurs after achievement by bulbs of productive size, that is not earlier, than in 3-5 years.
With small quantity of bulbs of decorative onions they can be multiplied pretty fast by method bulbochek. For this purpose it is necessary to cut off deflowered heads of plant and to process them growth factors. Further landing is made as well as in case with seeds. Further to new plants completely pass such maternal signs as height and color saturation.