Exquisite onion - growing through seedlings

bow For good health and strong immunity, various vegetables must be present in our diet. A special place among vegetables is occupied by onions, which are present in almost all dishes: vegetable, meat, fish and others. Therefore, breeders have developed a wide range of varieties of this tasty and healthy vegetable.

But relatively recently, no more than 10 years ago, summer residents began cultivating exhibition onions. This is a giant salad onion with a delicate, slightly sweetish taste and practically no characteristic onion smell. Even those who could not stand onions at all before became fans of this variety.

It is an annual onion variety bred by Dutch breeders that can be grown in two ways: through sowing and through seedlings. If everything is more or less clear with sowing, then there are many nuances in growing seedlings. In this article, we will take a closer look at how exible onion seedlings are grown.

Growing onion seedlings

To get a good harvest of excitement onions, as in the photo, you need to take care of the seedlings in advance. For this, several conditions must be met:

  • Fertile soil;
  • High-quality seed;
  • Compliance with the light regime;
  • Regular watering;
  • Hardening before disembarkation.

So, we stock up on fertile soil in a specialized store or harvest it in the fall. We prepare a suitable container and sow onion seeds into the soil in mid-February. To do this, pour a layer of soil into the planting container and evenly moisten the surface from a sprayer with settled warm water. Now we sow the seeds quite thickly and cover them with a thin layer of soil (0.5 -1 cm). We tighten the container with a film and leave it in a warm place.

Young shoots appear in a week. As soon as this happened, remove the film and expose the container to the light. To prevent the seedlings from stretching and yellowing, they need a lot of light. Therefore, daylight hours for onion seedlings must be extended by several hours. For this, you can use fluorescent lamps.

As the seedlings grow, top dressing is necessary. As soon as the first hooks-leaves are straightened, we apply complex fertilizer (1 teaspoon per 1 liter of water). Such feeding should be carried out every 14 days until the very planting in the ground.

When the third leaf appears, we shorten the shoots by 2/3 of their height so that the seedlings do not lie down and break.

A month before planting, we must harden young onions without fail. We take out the seedlings on a loggia or outside on a sunny day. Gradually increasing the hardening time from 10 minutes to 1 hour.

Planting onion seedlings

Grown onion seedlings can be planted in open ground no earlier than the second decade of May. At this time, night frosts are already unlikely and the seedlings will take root faster in warm soil.

onion excision

Before planting, we water the seedlings abundantly so that the earthen lump is well soaked and young roots are less damaged during transplantation. We also cut the roots and green shoots a little. And so that the roots do not dry out, we place them in a bucket of liquid earth or a clay mash.

We plant onions grown through seedlings in watered holes, made at a distance of 30 cm from each other. A distance of 15-20 cm must be observed between the plants. Onion seedlings should not be buried; it is enough to sprinkle the white part of the stem near the rhizome with earth and press it well with your fingers.

In order for the young onion to take root better the next day, it must be watered with a humate solution.

Further care of the onion consists in regular watering and loosening the row spacings. Harvesting begins when the bases of the stalks are dry and the feathers are bent to the ground.

Video about growing onions exible from seeds

Comments
  1. Taisiya

    Onions are a very healthy vegetable, which is practically indispensable in cooking. I was very interested in the material about onion exhibition, I had never heard of this. Probably very tasty and healthy. Need to try. And I want to share my advice with readers on growing an equally useful vegetable - batun onion. Its nutritional value is superior to leeks and onions. It is rich in ascorbic and niacin, carotene, thiamine, essential oils and organic acids, microelements. It is also called the seven-year-old onion, since it has been growing for several years in one place. The bulbs are very small, large green leaves are used for food, which in early spring show up directly from under the snow. There is no need to dig for the winter. With spring vitamin deficiency, there is no better remedy than fresh batun feathers. They help prevent seasonal colds. The onion does not require special care, it pleases with green feathers from early spring to late autumn. Grows in any soil. You need to buy his seeds and sow. Try it!

  2. Albina Andreevna Knyazeva

    An article about Exibition, a really large sweet onion is obtained in one year. Only I have not occupied a place for a long time and have not grown seedlings of any varieties. I get all varieties for a turnip through seedlings. There are many pluses. Planting onion seeds, if purchased, are expensive. Self grown, half dried, storage improper. Therefore, at first Exibishen, and then all varieties, began to grow seedlings. The survival rate is excellent, the heads are of medium size with a thin neck, which dries well. The seeds do not carry bacteria in themselves, as bulbs and winter stocks are perfectly stored.
    Easy to plant, easy to care for. Their onion fly does not hurt, while they develop, it finds ready-made ones in other gardens. Especially more often I arrange seedlings, and all summer we eat young greens. The batun, of course, is good in spring, but in summer I like the onion softer. And such varieties for greens as Parade are still harsh.

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