Close onions without the hassle: cottagers 5 tips

Hello, gardener!

Onions - it is the culture in which good and tops and roots. To harvest was the envy, it is necessary to know the simple rules of care "lacrimal" landing. This publication contains 5 simple tips for you, pressing in each garden. Try to follow one or more of them at will - and the result will be pleasantly surprised!

Below I will write advice, derived on the basis of the botanical features of the bow. Let me explain how it works!

1. Forget fresh manure and poultry manure

In recent years, fortunately, gardeners have become wary of such organic fertilizers as manure and chicken manure. Use fragrant, but aggressive feeding on beds is very carefully - risk of burn plants.

If the plot fertilized with fresh manure or chicken manure, then put a bow on this site is possible only after a year. For fertilizing apply them only in the form of humus. Otherwise, turnip growth will slow down and get a good harvest will not work. Especially now that there are easy to use and secure mineral supplements for onions and garlic!

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2. Try to change the situation with the acidity of the soil

If your garden soil is acidic, then the onion will grow worse. Try at least 2 times per season to make dolomite flour or ashes - and the situation change for the better! Means cheap, if not free:

You can take any plant ash - remaining after burning wood or grass

3. Focus on weather

Good news for those who do not like to run around with a watering can on the vegetable garden (well, who does?). Onions - garden crops, which does not need regular watering. On the contrary, constantly moist soil is not too positive impact on the health of the roots.

But. When the weather heat and drought has lasted for a week, the bed of onion still worth moisturize 1-2 times in 7 days. To bow came from the burning of days without a loss. Watering onions better in the morning or in the evening, when the sun is high above the horizon.

4. Advance worry about safety

To grown with care harvest is well kept, try to make sure that the bulb is minimal humidity:

• 3 weeks before harvesting stop watering even in hot weather
• We try to dig onions in dry weather before the autumn rains

After harvest, dry the necessary head.

5. Onion fly - dangerous threat. You should not neglect it

Onion fly - pest of small, bringing a huge result. More precisely, its larvae, which literally sucks the juices from a plant. Get rid of the insect with the site helps the biological (not chemical!) Preparation "Nemabakt" and folk remedy - saline.

Helpful? Please click the "Thumbs Up"! Thanks. Also I recommend that you read: How should I care for the lilacs after flowering. And next spring will be a beauty!