When and how best to clean the onion

How to ensure the maximum aging onions, so it lay well in the winter? For this we need to prepare for harvest.

I do not know about elsewhere, but we in the Volga already 2 weeks cool and frequent rains. Rarely have watered the beds. If the tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and cucumbers, all right, the bow had to hide in the greenhouse film arc. I'm afraid it may start to rot.

It is still growing onions. Fertilizing onions this season is no longer needed. In the dry summer onions onions maturation we used to recognize on the pen dries up, bed on the ground. In the rainy period, feather bow remains green until the end, and may not even be a lie. Therefore it is not always these signs are ripening.

I usually get accustomed to the bulb, and the neck. If I have a bulb has already become quite large, I remove a little earth from it for a better ripening. Cervix it becomes quite thick and thin - it means that the bow is ripe. If the rains do not lay down feathers, means "to help" the bow, put his hands on the bed of feathers. I am sheltering from the rain, stop watering and leave for some time to mature.

Feathers is not necessary to cut or freeze for sale. It is important! Feathers should dry out, giving away all the juices and strength of the bulb, then winter is well preserved.

If I see that the land under the film has dried, feathers, too, wither, then I start to harvest. Better for pulling the entire harvest from the garden choose a dry weather and leave to lie in the sun, to dry better.

Then I look around all the bulbs for black spots (signs of infestation by larvae of onion flies and worms presence) around the neck and on the bulb, removing the "shirt" with her. The roots also are cut off, leaving a centimeter. Then it all fits into the space on the cardboard or wooden pallets.

After a couple of weeks already a thin red "shirt" on the bulbs and roots dry up and feathers. If all of a sudden things are those in which the neck remains juicy such bulbs I save on the use of priority. they will not be stored in any way, and can even rot neighbors in a grid or a box. Remove the dried feathers and roots and placed in a grid or boxes for the winter.

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