Onion batun. We grow in the garden

If you are an amateur green young onions, then the onion will take its rightful place in your garden bed, and its high content in its young leaves vitamins (C - 2 times more than leek, A, B1, PP, B2), salts of magnesium, iron, potassium will bring great benefits to the body.
As for growing this crop - nothing special, nothing complicated, since the plant is quite unpretentious and tolerates low temperatures well (up to 8 degrees below zero).

In the first year the batun will delight you with a large number of tender and juicy feathers (which grow especially tasty on well-fertilized, light soils with sufficient watering), and on second year It will be possible to collect seeds (and happily share them with neighbors). They, by the way, are slightly smaller in size than regular onions, so they crumble easily.

Onion from seeds. Useful tips for care and cultivation

• Lighting. The bed should be located in a shaded place where the snow melts quickly in spring.
• Sowing. It is better to process and soak the seeds before planting. Sow when the soil allows (starting from the beginning of March).
• Watering. It is necessary to water once a week (if there is a drought, the feathers become bluish and dry out).
• Sowing depth - 2 cm.
• The main points in care remain regular watering, loosening row spacing.
• At one place the culture can grow up to 6 years.

Helpful advice: It is recommended to sow onions in the soil after tomatoes, cabbage, beans, peas, but in no case after garlic, onions, cucumbers and carrots.
The most popular varieties: Salatny 35, Maisky 7, April 12, Gribovsky 21.