In the spring of onions can be planted not only on the feather, but also on the head. On the one hand, it seems that there is no easier process: to plug a small head into the ground, and by the fall to harvest a large crop.
In fact, to get the expected result, you need to know some features of growing vegetables in a similar way.
- How to choose a favorable time
- Weather conditions of the region
- By lunar calendar
- Optimum conditions for growing
- Soil for planting
- Lighting
- Depth and landing pattern
- Preparation of planting material
- Planting onions on the head in the spring
- A few tips on growing
How to choose a favorable time
First of all, you need to know in which month they put onions on the head. From this depends on the yield and the fate of planting material.
Weather conditions of the region
It is on them that one should be guided in planting a vegetable crop, since there are simply no strict dates. They largely depend on the region, the characteristics of the weather conditions and the selected onion variety. The only important thing is that the soil is warm enough - from 12 ° C and more. But the approximate dates can still be called the last decade of April and the beginning of May.
By lunar calendar
Prompt when you can plant onions in the spring on the head, can Lunar calendar gardener. According to him the ideal periods for the bow:
- May 10-20;
- June 15-19;
- July 13-16;
- August 10-13;
- April 25-26;
- May, 23rd;
- 3 July;
- July 31;
- August 1;
- August 27-28.
Planted on these days, the plant produces large bulbs and juicy greens. Experienced gardeners are guided by the bird cherry tree: when leaves begin to unfold in her spring, it is time to plant onions.
Optimum conditions for growing
Having understood when the spring planting of onions is carried out on the head, it is necessary to choose a suitable place for vegetable culture.
Soil for planting
This plant requires fertile, loose soil with low acidity. Excellent vegetable grows on loams, which are well breathable and moisture. When choosing a place, you should pay attention to the predecessor plants.
It is best to plant a vegetable where previously grew cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes or cabbage. An ideal predecessor is rye, which loosens the soil with its roots and enriches it with necessary substances.
Also consider which vegetables will grow next. The perfect neighbor is carrots. She dares onion flies, while onions will be a prevention of carrot flies.
The soil for planting should be prepared in the fall. It is dug up with well-swollen manure and mineral fertilizer with superphosphate (100 g of fertilizer per 5 kg of manure). Manure can be replaced by compost. They dig up the soil to the depth of the spade bayonet.
In the spring, the soil is again fertilized with mineral fertilizers, after which a deep loosening is carried out. Then, a week before planting, wood ash (one liter jar per square meter) is added to it.
Lighting
When sowing onions on the head, choose well-lit areas. In principle, all bulbous plants are difficult to grow in the shade, as they like direct sunlight. Without them, onions, if they grow, will be very small.
Depth and landing pattern
The next important question is according to which scheme to plant the bulbs and how deep they should be buried.
Preparation of planting material
The first thing that needs to be done with planting material is to touch it, throwing out dry and rotten bulbs, and calibrate the remaining ones. The term of its planting depends on the size of the bulbs, so it is sorted in this way:
- less than a centimeter in diameter are planted in a greenhouse or in the middle of May in open ground;
- from 1 to 2 cm in diameter can be planted approximately two weeks after small ones (as a rule, this is the main part of the landing);
- large ones, with a diameter of 3 cm or more, are the last to land so that they do not go early in the arrow. You can land them separately on the greens.
Selected material must be disinfected. To do this, make a weak solution of potassium permanganate and maintain planting material in it for about 15 minutes.
If during the cultivation of the planting in the garden, diseases were observed, pests multiplied, it should be soaked in ash solution (a tablespoon per liter of water), but in such a means it should be kept for about five minutes.
Planting onions on the head in the spring
Before disembarking it is necessary to mark the beds. A distance of 12 cm is maintained between them. The distance between the bulbs themselves depends on the size of the heads. So, between large maintain a distance of 10-12 cm, medium - 8-10 cm, small - 6-8 cm.
Do not submerge the seams too deeply. When it takes root, the bulb will draw even deeper into the ground, so the shoots will have to wait a long time, and the harvest will be small and weak.It is enough to bury them a little in the ground and sprinkle a little on top. After planting, the vegetable is watered and mulched with straw or sawdust. This will help the moisture to stay in the ground while the bulbs germinate.
A few tips on growing
To get the expected yield, gardeners recommend following these rules:
- Watering landings spend only the first six weeks - about once a week. When the bulbs are ripe, it must be abandoned. If under severe drought the onion feathers lose color, bend, whiten slightly at the ends, you can water it a little.
- Vegetable may be affected by rust, neck rot, black mold and other diseases. Therefore, for prevention, it is recommended to spray it with a solution of copper sulfate, when the feathers are approximately 15 cm in length. To prepare the solution, they take half a teaspoon of copper sulfate, half a tablespoon of liquid laundry soap and dilute them in five liters of water.
- Onions must be fertilized three times during the growing season. The first time feeding is applied to the ground before planting, the second - when the feathers reach 10 cm, and the third - when the onion reaches the size of a walnut.
