How to avoid onion disease

Every spring we diligently plant everything in the beds, but our vegetables are often plagued by diseases and pests. Today we will talk about an irreplaceable and healthy vegetable - onions. Or more precisely, about what diseases of onions can lie in wait for it and how to deal with them.

Let's start with diagnostics. If the onion feather turns yellow or acquires a grayish tint, then most likely we are dealing with an onion secretive proboscis. In this case, onions are treated as follows: make a concentrate of one percent copper sulfate, one percent lime, and 98 percent water. Pour this mixture over the onions. You can also use regular table salt, dissolving it in water at a ratio of 1 part salt to 10 parts water. You can also add manganese there until you get a not bright pink color.

But you need to be careful not to confuse insufficient watering and the influence of hot weather with a type of onion disease. Because in both cases, the feather of the plant begins to dry from the ends.

Another common disease of onions is downy mildew. This disease is mainly active in the spring. The fungus that causes the disease is stored in the bulbs, and not only causes them to rot, but is also transmitted during sowing if the disease has affected the onion crop. To avoid this disease, you need to maintain the correct humidity and storage temperature of planting material, as well as isolated planting of onions from old onion beds.