Strunovidny numerous roots, false stalk instead of bulb, thick juicy leaves of gentle-green coloring and light lilac flowers – all this about onions-slizun. This kind of vegetable culture is unusual and unusual for most of gardeners, but is extremely useful, and it is simple to grow up it.
In what culture value?
Onions-slizun have received the interesting name for juiciness. If to crack plumelet, then on cut the ferruterous liquid similar to slime is formed. It contains all set of elements necessary to the person:
- useful acids;
- saccharose substances (glucose, sucrose, maltose and fructose);
- vitamins;
- mineral salts (iron, calcium, phosphorus, zinc and manganese);
- nitrogenous substances;
- phytoncides;
- enzymes;
- essential oils.
Onions-slizun begin vegetation hardly will melt snow, and its leaves, gentle, slightly sharp on taste, are suitable in food in already early spring when other greens are still inaccessible. They are added to any salads, season the first and second courses, do snack and also preserved and frozen for the winter.
Agrotechnology
Luk-slizun is unpretentious and successfully develops on any fertile soils. Rare culture is winter-hardy and does not perish even in nonchernozem zone, in its remote northern areas. Besides, the plant is not subject to illnesses – to it even lozhnomuchnisty dew is not conducted.
Make multiple copies onions-slizun both seeds and seedling, and division of bush. It is possible to plant plant since the end of spring and to the middle of summer. If to grow up it commercially, then on 1 hectare take 18-20 kg of seeds. Sow onions tapes in 3-4 lines, with distance between them in 25-30 cm. Tapes do at distance in 50 cm from each other.
In the conditions of small personal plot, will be one square meter of the earth enough. Onions are sowed in superficial (1.5-2 cm) by grooves which do at distance 30-35 cm from each other.
Onions approximately in three weeks ascend, but to accelerate this moment, seeds before landing can be wetted.
Plant onions-slizun and separate bushes. For this purpose dig out two-year or three-year plants and sort them on bulbs. One such copy can give from fifteen to thirty (and even more) plants. They are planted in one-line ranks at distance 50 cm.
Onions during the entire period of vegetation branch and for the second year form 3-4 branches of powerful escapes from 8-10 by leaves on everyone. Every year their quantity increases and by the end of the fifth of escapes becomes 20-25, and leaves on them – from fifty to two hundred.
Last year five-years periods slizun loses the energy and old escapes die off. For this reason on the same place culture is grown up by no more than five years.
Leaving
Care for onions minimum – it is necessary to weed and loosen, water and feed up him in due time.
Culture loves water therefore it is necessary to give to drink to her often. During the droughty period the leaves of onions-slizuna dry up and become sharp. At sufficient moisture the feathers do not grow coarse and long keep the juiciness.
As fertilizer for this plant the rerotting organic chemistry is good. Before planting onions, the site is enriched with humus, superphosphate and potash salt. Do it in the fall, during digging up. And just before crops – bring ammonium nitrate.
At due leaving, during the season onions-slizun are cut off to five times, and the harvest of green material reaches 300-400 c with 1 hectare, so, from one square meter the gardeners receive 3-4 kg of greens.
Preparation of seed
To prepare seed, on plantation where onions are planted, the small site is allocated – there greens are not cut off. For the second year after crops, culture gains color. When on the shooter the bud is formed, slizun it drives at the earth, thereby justifying the second name – hanging. When the flower blossoms, the feather is again extended.
Seeds not at a time ripen therefore two-three times during blossoming collect them.
Storage
Luk-slizun eat not only during season, but also prepare for the winter.
- Onions are dried. For this purpose shooters cut off, well wash in flowing water, dry and small cut. The crushed feathers display on trays or baking sheets layer no more than 2.5 cm and expose in the sun or dry in oven at temperature of 60 degrees of 5-6 hours.
- Onions are salted. For this purpose it is small cut and season with salt in glass jar which is closed then.
- Onions are frozen. Shooters crush, divide into small portions and display on bags. Onions are stored in the deep freeze long and do not lose the qualities.
Unique properties of onions-slizuna can be used during the whole year. It is capable to strengthen immunity, increases the resilience of organism and warns catarrhal diseases.