The end of October - the beginning of November – time when plant garlic towards the winter, the same can be done also with onions that in the early spring to receive the first fresh greens.
When to plant onion sets towards the winter?
First of all it is necessary to pay attention to weather: in the mornings regular frosts have to remain, and temperature of the soil to fall to - 1 - 2 degrees. Because part of saplings will die, the amount of onions on square meter needs to be increased approximately by quarter in comparison with spring landing.
In what advantage of subwinter landing of onions?
Luk put late fall manages to be taken moisture which appears after snow thawing, it is especially relevant in droughty warm spring. Lukovichki manages to inflate, sprout and to take roots well, and will give amicable shoots in already early spring.
Where to plant onions towards the winter?
Places which do not flood when thawing snow where water quickly leaves perfectly will be suitable for landing of winter onions, otherwise bulbs will quickly decay. It would be quite good to choose the solar place for bed.
How to plant onions towards the winter?
Bulbs with a diameter no more than 10 millimeters perfectly will be suitable for landing towards the winter. The greens received from such onions do not strelkutsya, and there is in the summer probability to receive quite good harvest.
When forming bed under onions, the earth it is necessary to dig over, add on each square meter of half-bucket of humus and glass of wood ashes. On ready ridge it is necessary to draw grooves at distance of 10 - 12 cm from each other in which to place lukovichka, between them there should not be more than 3 - 4 cm.
If it is going to grow up onions only on greens, interval it is possible to reduce and put onions approximately on 2 cm from each other.
To avoid destruction by frost of bulbs, the bed can be showered with dry leaves, the mulched grass or dry fragmented peat. When snow drops out, on bed it is possible to create small snowdrift which will serve as natural heater for future harvest. The first shoots on onions bed will appear in April.
Unfortunately, to grow up winter onions it turns out not at everyone, it is normal it is connected with violation of conditions of its landing and cultivation.