Onions rot during storage time. What to do?

Onions are very useful to humans and can protect us from many diseases, but instead we must protect it. Quite often, you may encounter a situation where seemingly healthy bulbs to rot in during storage, exude an unpleasant odor, infect other bulbs and totally unsuitable for consumption.

Therefore, in this article I propose because of what is happening, and most importantly how to avoid it. But before asking you to subscribe to my RSS feed Garden-Garden, where every day comes a lot of interesting!

Gray mold - the most common disease

Usually this infection fungal disease occurs more during the growth of onion on beds. Fungus-pathogen can be quite long in the follicle without causing it harm. But after we put the bulb in the storage fungus starts to develop actively.

At this time, the tip of the bulb begins to soften, if on it to press, it remains clearly visible dent. Usually bulb rots completely for 2 months and this is accompanied by an unpleasant odor. And the worst thing is that the fungus can easily spill over to other bulbs, thereby spoiling you a lot of harvest.

How to deal with gray rot?

• After harvesting from the garden every bulb you need to carefully inspect and, although the gray rot is difficult to detect at this stage, but it is better to sort out suspicious bulbs.
• Before laying on storage onions should be thoroughly dry it.
• The cellar should be cool and the humidity should not exceed 65-70%. High humidity for the main enemy of your vegetables during storage time.

Bacterial blight - even more cunning

Has it ever happened to you is that you take a large onion, clean it, cut in half and find that the core of the bulbs start to rot (maybe not as much as in the photo)?

If yes, then your bulb has been infected by a bacterial rot. Unlike botrytis infection starts from within, so it is even more difficult to determine, since seemingly onion solid and healthy.

Again two months is enough to almost entirely rotted onion (as in the photo), and then she had already softened the cervix, and on it will go bad smell.

How to deal with a bacterial rot?

• Do not forget about the correct storage tips: cellar should be cool and dry, then the rot will develop much less.
• Planting onions should be in the high places of the garden, so that water does not stagnate for a long time in the garden with a bow.
• During the cultivation of onions treat brine (salt on the glass bucket of water), to get rid of onion flies and spider mites.
• And to get rid of the larvae of pests regularly sprinkle your bed of wood ashes.

I told only about the gray and bacterial rot, but apart from these, our onion there are many other diseases that can rob you of a large part of the harvest.

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