Technology for growing onions in one or two seasons

Onions are a crop without which it is impossible to imagine a complete diet for most people, especially those living in temperate climates with long and cold winters. For these areas, until a few years ago, only one technology was available for growing onions as a two-year crop. Now there is varieties, which can be grown from seed to turnip in just one summer. Let's consider all the methods.

Content:

• Growing sets from seeds
• How to grow onion sets from onions in the second year
• Growing onions in one summer

Growing sets from seeds

Onions are inherently a perennial crop; it takes two seasons to get a full-fledged edible onion from a small black seed. The following varieties have been bred for cultivation in a two-year culture:

1. Strigunovsky local - domestic selection, small-growing, early ripening, color of dry scales light yellow, bulb weight 80.0 g.
2. Local Spassky is a mid-season variety that produces three bulbs per bush.
3. Odindovets is a mid-season onion variety; not only the set, but also a full-sized onion is stored well.

When grown using a two-year technology, in the first year seeds are sown, from which only medium-sized onion sets will be obtained in one season. For that. to grow seedlings, you need to choose a sunny place with fairly loose sandy or loamy soil. Before sowing, the soil is dug up. It’s good if crops grew in this place in front of the onions:

• legumes
• nightshades
• cabbage
• melons

For digging you need to add 1 square meter. meter:

• rotted manure about 5-6 kg
• wood ash - glass
• superphosphate - a full tablespoon
• peat - 3 kg

It’s good to dig everything up and form a bed up to 15 - 20 cm high. It is advisable, for ease of processing, to make a bed 0.9 - 1.0 m wide. The best time for sowing seeds Onions are in spring in many areas. Two days before sowing, the bed should be watered with a solution of copper sulfate.

To do this, just dissolve a tablespoon of vitriol in 10 liters of water. For 1 sq. m need about three liters of solution. After which the bed is covered with film for a couple of days. Seeds can be prepared for sowing in the simplest way. The day before sowing, soak them in warm water for 15 - 19 hours.

After that, drain the water, dry the seeds in air for an hour and you can start sowing. For sowing, furrows are made in the garden bed up to 15 mm deep, the gap between furrows is up to 15 cm, and between seeds is up to 2 cm.

Important! When sowing in spring, the depth of seed placement should not be more than 10 - 15 mm. The bed is watered with water immediately after the seeds are planted in the ground, for each square. meter is enough 3 liters of water. It is advisable to cover the bed with film for a couple of weeks.

This will retain moisture. Around the 16th - 17th day, shoots will appear in the form of green loops. The seedlings need to be regularly weeded and the soil loosened between the rows. Watering, even in drought, should be done moderately, once a week is enough. And before harvesting, stop watering completely.

Onion sets are harvested in August. It is dried and sorted. Small onions, whose diameter does not exceed 1.5 cm, are planted before winter, large ones are stored. Store the sets at a temperature of + 15 +17 degrees. Once a month onion sort through, removing dry or rotten bulbs.In spring, onion sets are planted in the ground.

How to grow onion sets from onions in the second year

The bed can be prepared using the same technology as for sowing seeds. The grooves are made up to 4-5 cm deep, the distance between the grooves is 15 cm. Despite the fact that onion sets planted before winter give a shorter harvest, in order to avoid rotting and freezing, it is best to plant the sets in the spring. The best time for this is mid-May, when the earth warms up to + 12 degrees.

The sevok needs to be warmed up in advance. They do this so that the bow does not hit the arrow. The fastest way to prepare seedlings for planting is to fill it with hot, + 70 degrees, water for 1 minute. After this, the onion is removed from the hot water and placed in cold water for 1 minute. The prepared seedlings are immediately planted in the ground.

Important! If among the sets there are bulbs that are too large, more than 2 cm in diameter, then it is better to use them for forcing greens. Such bulbs are most prone to the formation of shoots.

Onion sets are laid out in grooves with the bottom down. They are covered with soil on top, which can be mixed with humus. In the absence of precipitation, water the onions once a week. 20 days after germination you need onions feed. It is very good to dilute a liter of mullein in 10 liters of water.

Pour this mixture over the onions. Two weeks before harvesting the onions, watering is stopped. A signal for harvesting can be lodging and yellowing of unearthly parts. Depending on the variety, dug up bulbs can be stored for 2 to 6 months without loss of quality. If desired, a crop of onions can be grown in just one summer.

Growing onions in one summer

The technology for growing onions in one season is suitable for the following varieties:

• Siberian annual
• Skorospelka
• Spirit F1
• Supra
• Farmer

How to grow onion seedlings

Video about planting onions:

The best time to sow onion seeds to obtain seedlings is from mid-February to early April. Sowing is carried out in seedling boxes with a height of at least 10 cm. The boxes are filled 2/3 with soil, which is made up of equal parts:

• sand
• peat
• garden soil

The soil is spilled with a fungicide solution. Before sowing, seeds are soaked in a growth stimulator for 18 - 19 hours. After which they dry for an hour and begin sowing. The seeding depth is no more than 0.8 - 1.0 cm. The distance between seeds is 3.0 cm, between rows -5.0 cm. So that seedlings do not have to additionally transplant, it is convenient to spread the seeds with tweezers.

The box is placed in a warm place where the temperature is at least + 22+25 degrees. The ground is constantly sprayed with water. Shoots appear in the third week. After a month and a half they can be hardened in an open sunny place. From mid-May, seedlings can be transplanted into the garden bed.

How to plant onion seedlings in open ground

The bed for planting onion seedlings is prepared in the same way as for sowing seeds. Before planting, the soil is loosened and moistened. The soil in the seedling box is also moistened. A groove is made in the garden bed, the depth of which is about 3 cm. Carefully dig up the seedlings in the box. Separating each plant, embed it in the ground. The root should be completely in the ground. The soil near each stem is compacted and watered.

Next onion plantings are needed:

• water
• remove weeds from plantings
• feed once every two to three weeks

Growing onions through seedlings has the following advantages:

• this is a more economical way
• When grown this way, onions do not produce arrows

It should be said that onions can be grown using one-year technology without growing seedlings. Seeds are sown in April. You can sow them quite often. As the seedlings grow, they are thinned out until there is 6-8 cm between neighboring plants. In all other respects, onions from seeds are cared for in the same way as onions from seedlings.

Each method of growing onions for turnips has its own advantages and disadvantages; you can try them all to understand which one is most suitable in each specific case.