How to prepare onions for planting

Onions are widely and actively grown by summer residents and gardeners; they have healing properties, contain phytoncides, improve the taste of food, as well as its digestion and assimilation.

How to prepare onions for planting? This question arises for all summer residents. First, onion seeds are sown, from which small onions are obtained - sets. Next year, they plant sets and harvest larger onions. Then turnip onions are planted, from which flower-bearing shoots are obtained, in which dark-colored seeds ripen.

Before planting seeds, it is necessary to keep them in humid conditions for 2 weeks, so the seeds are checked for germination. 2 days before planting, the seeds are kept in humid conditions. The seeds can be wrapped in a wet cloth, which needs to be moistened periodically. In the second half of April, the seeds are planted in prepared soil.

Preparing onion sets for planting involves carefully examining the onion and removing diseased, damaged and dried out bulbs. The remaining onions must be sorted by size. Large ones are planted first, then medium ones, and then small ones. Purchased planting material must be additionally heated at a temperature of 40 degrees. The bulbs must be soaked in a fertilizer solution and then in copper sulfate to prevent fungal diseases. After this, the bulbs are washed with water and planted in previously prepared soil.

We found out how to prepare onions for planting; it is also important to pay sufficient attention to care, optimal watering, loosening, harvesting and storing the resulting crop.