Unpretentious vegetable onions will grow anyway even if only to thrust it to the earth and occasionally to water. However the procedure of soaking with use of complex fertilizers and means for pest control will help to grow up harvest of perfect onions without loss.
Onions – rather light culture in cultivation therefore any kitchen garden does not do without this vegetable. However and he demands certain knowledge without which the harvest will be not to such rich. Secret is not so much in care for onions bed how many in preliminary preparation for landing. If owners put 3-5 kg of planting stock, then preparation will borrow fairly time, but further cultivation will not bring trouble.
To ret or not – here in what question
As a rule, to receive onions, it is grown up from sevka (small bulbs with a diameter from 1 to 3 cm). Even experienced gardeners ask question whether it is necessary to ret onion sets before landing. Actually process of soaking pursues several aims: amicable shoots, disinfection from wreckers and fast development of root system.
The fibrillose root system of onions is poorly developed, and if to take bulbs in water before landing only half an hour, then it is possible to see how thin backs have already begun to move forward outside. For this purpose it is not obligatory to add to water the fertilizers accelerating growth at all, it is enough to fill in with water of room temperature only.
In what to ret onions before landing
If desired it is possible to resort also to complex fertilizers for vegetable cultures. Fertilizing is used at the rate of 1 tablespoon on 10 liters of water. Only then half an hour business will not manage. Experts recommend to leave pilferers in solution for about 8-10 hours. The most malicious enemy of crops of onions – onions fly, but also on her will be justice when soaking – salt. If to take pilferers in salt solution, then it will help to prevent postponement of larvae of onions fly, so and mass death of onions. For prevention of fungal diseases of pilferers it is retted for 10-15 minutes in solution of copper vitriol (1 tsp on 10 l of water) or in weak solution of potassium permanganate. The last way is represented simple and available especially as it is checked by long experience of grandmothers. All aforesaid does not mean that pilferers need to be stood in all these solutions. It is necessary to choose for himself the most acceptable. And, if to salt onions 2 hours in "abrupt" solution: 1 kg of salt on water half-buckets, vitriol or potassium permanganate will not be necessary any more. Salt will save also from onions fly, and from diseases.
Preparation of onions for soaking
Before starting soaking, pilferers it is necessary to touch and remove from it flaked peel and to sort by the size. Bulbs which have already started up greens are subject to rejection. At the next stage the upper neck is removed. It is more convenient to do it by scissors or knife. The collum with rudiments of backs remains untouched. The procedure of cutting of top is considered optional, especially if onions are planted on turnip. After cut the feather appears quicker and grows at more equal, without zalom.