Growing large-fruited family onions - planting and care, storage
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HOW TO GROW A LARGE FAMILY ONION - MY TIPS
Today I want to write about a large-fruited family onion. I have long wanted to breed such, but I could not: mostly it was small and suitable only for greenery. I subscribed to four varieties from Chelyabinsk, spent several years transporting it, cherishing it, but I never got good results.
A few years ago I bought five large-fruited onions, I don't know the name of the variety. The first two years I planted it separately and did not touch how many bulbs there were - I left everything, did not pinch feathers, and he grew up in a family of 5-10 pieces. Care: watered, loosened, then mulched it and watered it a couple of times over the summer with fermented grass. In the third year, I had already planted two beds of 8 m each. weeds grow and the earth dries up.
I loosen the beds with a cultivator (in the fall, white mustard was planted there). Along the entire length I make grooves with a depth of 2-3 cm, water a little with water and sprinkle with ash (you can use tobacco dust).
The distance between the rows is 20 cm.
I put the bulbs, slightly pressing them into the ground, then I rake the ground just above the bulb. I plant carrots in the extreme row (not thickly).
Shoots appear in three to four days. When they grow up to 7-10 cm, I loosen the ground and mulch with dry grass or old sawdust, foliage from birches, which we collect in bags in autumn.
I plant onions and garlic early. Spring garlic was usually planted as soon as the snow melted, but in recent years we have warm April and cold May.
See also: Planting onions by dividing bulbs (family multiline onion)
Last year, it was planted on April 18, and the cold snap in May did no harm to either the onion or the garlic, there was not a single arrow. The latest landing is on May 5 on Lukov Day.
I store the onions for planting in an armchair or in a sofa - one hundred percent safety. She used to keep it underground, and there were arrows, and this is a decrease in the yield.
In order for the bulbs to grow large, the plantings need to be thinned out, i.e. leave no more than five pieces in the nest, and this is also a loss of yield. Now I do it differently: I cut the tops of the onion by 1 -2 cm, fill it with water with potassium permanganate and leave it overnight.
In the morning I drain the water and cut the onion into 2-3 parts so that there is a bottom on all the divisions, then there is more planting material and the bulbs grow larger.
STORING ONION UNDER A HANGER
The feather of my onion is very delicate, so I plant part of it with whole onions, and then thin it out for food. In July, I harvest the onions, but selectively - it all depends on the weather. If it is dry in the yard, I remove the one that will fall, i.e. the neck dries up, and if the rains charge for a long time, I pull out the whole thing and dry it in the dryer - under the canopy of the barn. There, two sides are covered with boards, and the south side is open. There are two wide racks in the dryer, that's where we dry onions.
Immediately I cut off the roots and feathers, leaving a neck 7-10 cm long. And I cut it, starting from the head, into 2 or 4 parts - a "beard" is obtained. Then I put the bulbs on the bottom close to each other, and the "beard" dries up for a couple of days.
I tie the bow in braids, so I need the "beard" not to dry out, but just to wither well.
Nails are driven into the walls of the canopy, and we hang the braids on them, where they hang until frost. At the end of September, we transfer the bow to the house and lower it to the underground, where we also hang it. Preservation - 100% until the new harvest.
Last year, I began to make harvesting with an old family onion, and it was without a single sprout, while the simple one was all over. If you store onions in drawers, dry them longer.
Last year, we collected two buckets of onions for planting and 14 braids 90 cm long - and this is just from two beds! I also have grown the seeds of the black chernushka of a large-fruited family onion. If we sow chernushka very densely on a set of simple onions so that it is smaller, then this one, on the contrary, needs to be sown less often so that the bulbs are larger, and when planting, cut them.
Breed large-fruited family onions, you will not regret! If something is not clear, I am glad to help.
Dear friends! When purchasing various new products, be sure to recognize and write down the names of the varieties. For example, there is no such type of onion - large-fruited family, this is a common characteristic of several varieties. What is the use of describing agricultural technology if the readers do not know what variety it is related to?
See also: Family bow (photos) planting and care: advice of the dacha
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© Author: Svetlana Sapozhnikova. Bulanikha Altai Territory.
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I grow cucumbers on a green plastic mesh trellis, I cover the ground around the stems with black spunbond. How often should you water them? How and when to feed the plants with this growing method? Are there any peculiarities in the care?
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- When growing plants using black spunbond mulch, the following regime is observed: if it is hot and sunny outside, watering is required every 3-4 days; if it's not very hot, once a week is enough. It should be fed weekly with a solution of a complex mineral fertilizer, for example, azofoski (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water; 1-2 liters per plant). The more fruits on the plants, the more fertilizers can be added to the water, but not more than 3 tbsp.
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Explain how to care for onions before harvesting so that they ripen better. I was advised to dig in the feathers. Should I do it? How is it correct?
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- Stop watering 3-4 weeks before harvesting the onions - this will help switch the plant to bulb ripening. In the absence of moisture in the soil, the feathers will dry out faster. If the weather is rather humid, you can limit the access of water by injuring the roots (slightly pull and turn the plant in the garden or cut the roots with a shovel). Forced dropping of feathers with earth will damage the neck of the bulb and the appearance of harmful microbes on the leaves. As a result, the crop will be poorly stored.
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In the fall of 2014, a friend gave me several bulbs, and I planted it with bulbs from year to year.
I really like the Family bow: it is well stored, it does not go into the arrow, it is large enough, now I am different and I do not plant it.
But in the spring of 2019, I saw green sprouts in last year's garden - the bulb that remained in the winter sprouted, and four arrows bloomed and gave small seeds. The next spring, I sowed a nigella, from which an excellent sevok grew (see photo). Now every fall I plant a few bulbs in the winter for seeds.
Advice for those who want to quickly grow family onions: winter grows in an arrow. Maybe I missed it, but I don't remember anyone writing about it.