How and at what time is planting onion sets. How to plant onions on a head in spring: preparation, planting, care Is it possible to plant sprouted sevok

Dear friends, the May spring sun is warming more and more confidently, which means that it's time to plant onions. We hope that you have already prepared onion sets.

This is the name of a one-year-old onion grown from seeds (nigella) and representing a small onion.

Sevok can be grown independently from seeds or purchased at garden centers and stores.

How to choose sevok

It is important to choose the right quality planting material. Bulbs should not be shriveled, already sprouted. In this case, the supply of their nutrients has already gone to the pen, and a good turnip will not work.

Also inspect them for damage and rot, this is important because such a set will not make a good onion head, it will be prone to disease, will not grow well, or even rot.

Here the principle applies: quality is more important than cheapness. It is better to purchase good planting material than discounted, but not meeting these criteria.

A good set of small size, dense, with a shiny smooth, whole and tight-fitting husk.

When to plant onion sets outdoors

The most popular month for planting onions is May. Specific dates depend on your climate zone. In central Russia, onions can be planted throughout May, while the spring moisture of the soil is preserved, which the onion respects very much.

When planting onions, it is not even the date that is more important, but the weather conditions and soil temperature. No need to rush to land if the weather is cold and wet. It is necessary to wait for warm days when the soil warms up to at least 15-20 degrees Celsius.

If you rush and plant the onion in the cold ground, then this will not lead to anything good. Although the onion tolerates frost and cold quite well, its character deteriorates because of this. He will certainly take revenge on you and, instead of a good turnip and greenery, he will grow flower arrows for you.

Therefore, it is better to wait for stable warm weather without rain than to be left without a crop. Pay attention not only to the lunar calendar as the ultimate truth, but also to the weather forecast, it will be more accurate.

What to do so that the bow does not go to the arrow

Even before planting, it is important to know why the sevok goes into the peduncle and how to avoid it.

The reason for the fact that the bow shoots is the incorrect storage temperature of the planting material, the lack of adaptation before planting, and the violation of the rules of care.

Let us explain in more detail: onion sets must be stored at positive temperatures, because it is the cold that provokes the onion to create arrows. This is a signal to launch a self-preservation program and give offspring as soon as possible. Therefore, as soon as you plant such a set, it will begin to produce flower stalks in order to give seeds faster.

The key to a large and strong onion turnip is storage in comfortable conditions, without cold stress.

But what if you bought an onion set in a store, and you have no idea how it was stored? No problem. Purchased onions need to arrange an adaptation period.

To do this, two weeks after the purchase, we keep the onion near the battery or in another warm place. And then we store it before planting only at room temperature and in the dark so that it does not begin to germinate ahead of time.

If there is no time to warm up the battery or the heating has already been turned off, then you can do the following: give the bow a warm bath. In a bowl of warm water (40-45) degrees, spread the onion and leave for 8 hours, periodically adding warm water. Then we take out the heads, dry it thoroughly and store it at room temperature until planting.

For planting on a turnip, choose medium-sized heads, because large ones are more prone to shooting and are best planted on greens. Do not plant in cold soil. For the same reason, watering with cold water should be avoided.

Processing and soaking onions before planting

First of all, when preparing a seed for planting, you need to carefully sort it out. Arm yourself with several containers for sorting.

It is necessary to reject all damaged and small specimens, leaving medium-sized bulbs for planting on the head. Large onions, small and even sprouted ones are suitable for greens. But empty, shriveled, missing - we throw it away.

Next, carefully cut off each dry tail at the crown with scissors. This simple operation will help them germinate faster and better. Well, you need to be afraid that an infection will get into the cut, because the sevok will be treated for diseases before planting.

Should onions be soaked before planting? And what is the best way to do it? Let's figure it out.

To feed the bulb so that it grows large, it is recommended to dilute the complex fertilizer in water (40-45 degrees) and soak the onion there all night. When the sevok is saturated with usefulness, you can proceed to its protective treatment and planting.

Most popular recipes:

• Soaking onions in potassium permanganate. We make a strong dark pink solution of potassium permanganate and soak the onions in it for 2-3 hours. After that, they will need to be washed under running water so that concentrated potassium permanganate does not damage future young roots. Potassium permanganate prevents fungal and bacterial diseases.
• Soaking onions in saline. 1 st. l salt diluted in one liter of water, immerse the bulbs in it for 2-3 hours. Salt also prevents decay and disease.
• Soaking in blue vitriol. 1 tsp of copper sulfate per 10 liters of water, for 10-15 minutes. Copper sulfate disinfects seedlings and protects them from diseases.

Processing onions before planting with salt, potassium permanganate and ash

On a three-liter jar of warm (60 degrees) water we take 2 tbsp. l with a slide of salt + dark pink solution of potassium permanganate + 2 tbsp. l wood ash. Soak for 2 hours.

Processing onions before planting from pests with birch tar

The most nasty onion pest is, of course, the onion fly. Fortunately for us, she cannot stand the smell of birch tar. And if you want to protect your crops, then it would be useful to soak the onion in the solution as well: 1 tbsp. l. tar in a liter of water for 10-15 minutes.

With the same solution, you can additionally shed plantings during the growing season.

Onion planting and care in the open field

As we know, onions cannot be planted in the same place where an onion bed was also located last year. The probability of diseases in this case greatly increases, and such landings should be avoided.

Choose a place where tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, legumes, cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin, cabbage were previously planted. The earth after them retains its nutritional value, and this is necessary for the onion to grow a good turnip. Onions and carrots have good neighborly relations, they scare away each other's pests, so you can plant them side by side.

He also prefers that the soil is not heavy, loose and nutritious. Places likes light, with good drainage, without stagnant moisture.

It is better to prepare the future onion bed in advance in the fall, loosen the ground well and add humus and compost. In the spring, one to two weeks before planting, we loosen the soil and spill it with organic humic fertilizers. Will do.

Planting an onion on a turnip (per head)

We prepare grooves about 8-10 cm deep. The distance between them is at least 15 cm.

Spill them with a disinfectant solution. You can use both powder (1 tsp per 10 liters of water) and paste (1 tbsp of diluted paste per 10 liters of water).

We plant our seedlings in the spilled grooves at a distance of 10 cm from each other. We sit him down on what is called “on the shoulders”, i.e. not only to cover the roots, but much deeper. This is necessary so that the bulb has good contact with the soil and does not hang out, because. She won't have roots yet.

Sprinkle wood ash on top as fertilizer and disinfection. And we fill the grooves with earth.

Planting onions on greens (on a feather)

When we do not have a goal to grow a turnip, but we only want greenery, then to save space, we suggest that you use a bridge landing.

This is when the bulbs are planted one to one very tightly and not very deep. At the same time, landing in open ground is not necessary, you can use a container with earth. Or select a small place in the garden.

Mixed nib and head fit at the same time

When we don’t have a lot of space, but I want to grow a good onion and eat greens, then this method will come in handy. We make grooves as usual, but we plant sevok in them in a checkerboard pattern and quite often.

With such a goal that some of these seedlings will grow on a turnip, and some can be pulled through as they grow, not greens and consumed fresh.

Otherwise, the actions are the same as in the classic landing on a turnip (see above).

Onion care

When we have organized a good bed, in a lit place, with nutritious loose soil, we only have to weed it in time so that the weeds do not interfere with the growth of the crop. Watering is carried out after planting once a week.

Onions also need frequent loosening of the soil (between rows and between plantings, especially after rain, so that the earth does not turn into a crust) and top dressing.

At the end of May, it is necessary to feed it with nitrogen-containing fertilizers, in mid-June - it already needs potassium fertilizers and ammonium nitrate. For those who prefer to do without chemicals, green fertilizers from weeds and nettles, biohumus and ash are suitable.

Top dressing with ammonia is also effective: 2 tbsp. l of ammonia dissolve in 10 liters of water, it is necessary to water with such a product on wet ground, and not on dry ground. Therefore, we pre-moisten the beds. Ammonia will drive away pests and nourish your plantings with the necessary nitrogen.

We do this top dressing three times with an interval of 10 days. And you will forget about the yellowing of the onion feather, and the onion fly will not stick its nose into your beds.

So dear friends, there is nothing complicated in growing onions, you will definitely succeed.

How to treat onion flies

Hello, friends! Planting onions It's a serious matter, because it's not always and not everyone succeeds. Many advise planting onion sets when it becomes completely warm, they say, from an early planting, it can go into the arrow. But in fact, he shoots if the temperature is very low or zero, that is, there is a large difference between day and night temperatures. There are other equally important They are main reasons archery - sevka.

Firstly: due to improper storage of sevka - you can not store it at low positive temperatures, that is, above + 3º, but below + 18º. It should be stored in a dry place at a temperature of 0 to +2 degrees, but not higher. Humidity 70 - 75% and always in a ventilated place. If you store in a cardboard box, then know that this is not the best option, as the cardboard becomes damp during storage and this moisture will transfer to the stored onion. It can also be stored in a dry and hot place. Previously, it was stored on a Russian stove on a shelf.

Secondly: very large set, more than 2 cm in diameter. If it is less than this size, then, as a rule, it does not shoot.

About the size of the set

• 8 - 14 mm, these are small bulbs, they do not shoot at all, but on poor soil a small turnip will grow from them, or it may lag behind larger seeds in development.
• 14 - 21 mm is the best seed size for planting on a turnip.
• 21 - 24 mm - a large fraction, if such sets were stored incorrectly, then many varieties can shoot. However, if the storage conditions are observed and it is properly processed before planting, then this is a good option: it ripens early and almost 100% of the crop.
• 24 - 30 mm - it is better to use such sets for getting greenery, since a large percentage of arrows.

How to choose sevok

It must be spotless. dry, tight, no damage, mildew. if the onion is damp, then be sure to dry it.

About timing and landing

The soil

Cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, in general, all those crops under which a lot of fertilizers were applied, will be good predecessors for onions. If you could not allocate such a place for onions, then in the fall add 1 sq. meter near a bucket of cow humus, a teaspoon of nitrophoska, 2 tablespoons of superphosphate, a handful of wood ash. By the way, onions love ash very much.

In our area, all this has to be done in the spring, because if I do it in the fall, then with the hollow spring waters everything will be washed away.

But if you are more fortunate, then it is better to prepare the garden bed in the fall, and dig it up again in the spring.

Onions need loose, fertile soil, clay soil is not for him. If you have just such a thing, then try to add humus, peat, sand under the bow (large sand is needed, fine building sand will not work, it cakes) - in general, make it moisture and breathable, light.

For the second feeding, in addition to mullein, superphosphate and ash, you need to add 5 g of potassium sulfate, which is responsible for the good ripening of the bulbs and the accumulation of sugar in them.

Third top dressing- at the end of June exactly the same as the second.

Do not use potassium chloride, and stop all feeding a month before harvesting. In other words, let the onion ripen in July.

After watering, top dressing and rains, obligatory loosening. I stop watering and fertilizing a month before harvesting.

On heavy soils, it is necessary to do soiling or raking, that is, to rake the ground from the bulbs so that only the roots remain in it (in the ground). This must be done carefully so as not to damage the plant. This procedure will help the onion form and ripen faster. Since our soils are heavy, I also use raking and do it in the first half of June. By the way, this operation can be carried out on any soil, then the onion fly larvae are not comfortable hatching, and the bulbs themselves quietly grow in breadth.

If the weather is rainy and the onion does not ripen in any way, help it, just damage the root system by digging the plant. After 2-4 days after that, you can remove the onions, if the weather allows.

Do not be late with harvesting, 10-15 days after the feather lodging, new roots may begin to grow and the plant will resume growth. Then it will be very difficult to save the bow. Onions begin to be harvested after lodging of leaves in 50% of plants. It is advisable to clean up before the August rainy season, it is best to do this in early August, in the very first days, especially if the weather is good.

After harvesting, the onion must be dried well, and only then cut off the leaves, leaving a neck 3-4 cm long. It must be laid well dried, then it can be stored for a very long time in a dry and lit place.

So, let's summarize: in order to get an onion crop, you need to choose the right size of the sowing for planting, dry it, warm it up and subject it to other necessary processing, properly prepare the soil, plant it at the right time, carry out top dressing until the end of June, at the beginning of June, carry out soiling, weeding , watering, loosening, well, clean up in time.

Good luck and see you soon, friends!

Some bulbs store well, staying firm all winter, while others suddenly begin to sprout, especially store-bought bulbs.

The hostesses are trying to put such heads into action as soon as possible, although they could leave it for greenery if they knew how to grow sprouted onions at home. Why buy expensive onion feathers out of season when you can get them yourself from bulbs that sprout ahead of time?

Growing sprouted onions indoors

To get a strong and juicy green feather, you need a container, ordinary soil or water. If you want the feather to grow faster and more abundantly, you need a phytolamp, or an ordinary fluorescent lamp.

We purchase special containers for growing onions or use egg trays by cutting off the bottoms of the cells and placing them in a pan with water. Next, we do this:

• If a special container is used, fill it with water up to the indicated mark and close the lid with holes for the onions. The technology is no different from using egg trays - they don't cost us anything at all.
• We put the sprouted onions into the recesses so that only the roots are in the water, and the onions remain above the water. Otherwise, they will quickly rot without giving a harvest.
• We regularly change the water in the container to replenish the air supply. To enrich the water with oxygen, you can use an aquarium aerator.

Do onions grow in tap water? Be sure to defend it before pouring it into the container. We keep the planted onion on a light windowsill.

If you want to grow onion greens in the ground, we use containers with holes in the bottom and trays, since onions growing in containers with a solid bottom have brittle and sluggish feathers. The substrate can be anything: universal fertile soil, sphagnum moss or sawdust.

Planting sprouted onions

To understand how to grow sprouted onions at home, we are studying the following planting technology:

• Drainage installation. We lay two centimeter drainage in the form of pebbles, broken bricks or expanded clay on the bottom of the vessel: it allows the roots to breathe and retains moisture.
• Soil backfill. If garden soil is used, we will certainly steam it, protecting the onions from infection with diseases. But it is better to still prefer a light universal soil sold in garden stores.
• Check bulbs for signs of rot. Before planting, we inspect the sprouted onions, removing the top layer of the husk from them. They should not be rotten, covered with white or dark dots.
• Planting bulbs. We plant the onions in the substrate, pressing them tightly against each other. Heads planted out of season do not grow, but dry out, so they are planted as closely as possible. More bulbs will enter the container, which means a lot of greenery will grow.

After planting the onion, sprinkle it with a layer of substrate, leaving a third of the head uncovered.

Onion care when forcing a feather

To obtain abundant strong greenery, we provide proper care for onion plantings:

• Lighting. For a week we put containers with onions in a cool, not very bright place: let the root system grow. After we clean them on a well-lit windowsill.
• Temperature. In the place where the onion grows, the temperature should be 20-27 degrees: the warmer it is, the sooner the feather grows. However, he needs protection from overheating if the containers are in a sunny place: we wrap them in foil.
• Watering. We water the substrate as it dries, without being carried away by frequent watering: it is better to water less often, but plentifully. We do not allow waterlogging of the soil, otherwise the onion will rot and dry out: the feather will turn out not juicy and tasteless.

Sprouted onions planted in the ground do not need top dressing. If you want to speed up the forcing of greens, once every two weeks we water the plantings with a solution of wood ash (5 grams per 1 liter of water).

Now it’s clear how to grow sprouted onions at home in containers with water, earth or other substrate. But it is better to choose the second option: it allows you to get much more greenery than when grown in water.

By the beginning of spring, onions stored at home begin to sprout on their own. If you do not notice this in time, then the bulb will begin to rot, and then ruin others nearby. But from sprouted bulbs you can get a good harvest of fresh green onions. And to do this is quite simple: there would be a desire.

Under room conditions, onion forcing on a feather is carried out en masse, planting the bulbs in boxes close to each other. In the first 10 - 12 days, the boxes can stand in any warm, slightly darkened room, - says Nikolai Kupreenko, deputy director of the RUE "Vegetable Growing Institute" for science, head of the laboratory of onion crops, candidate of agricultural sciences, breeder Nikolay Kupreenko. - When the onion grows by 5 - 10 cm, they are exposed to the light. After two weeks, the first leaves are cut off, thereby thinning out the plantings. The optimum growth temperature is plus 17 - 20 degrees. Under warmer conditions, the green grows faster, but the leaves are pale green, thin, quickly decumbent. Onion care consists only in regular watering - 1 - 2 times a week with warm (plus 30 - 35 degrees) water.

As a planting material, it is better to use small bulbs with a diameter of 3 - 4 cm. But at the same time, the larger the onion, the higher the yield of leaves. Onions germinate better on the southern, southeastern and southwestern windows.

There are a lot of options for planting onions. Double layer, for example. It allows you to get 2-3 times more feather than usual. In a small container we fall asleep a layer of earth. Then, cutting off the dry necks, we plant the bulbs closely, sprinkle them with earth to fill the voids between them and cover the already planted layer for a couple of centimeters. We plant a second layer of bulbs above it, but we no longer sprinkle it with soil. We water and care for such a longline planting, as for any houseplant. And we are waiting for a thick brush of feathers.

Or here's another way. Take a container and pour a 5-centimeter layer of a mixture of peat and sand into it. Then moisten the onion, dip it with the bottom in crushed chalk to stick. After that, press the onion halfway into the ground, and sprinkle on top with a layer of chalk or the same layer of crushed eggshells. Place the container near the window. Take snow or crushed ice and cover the bulbs with them by 3-4 cm. With this planting, the onions begin to sprout very quickly, and the bulbs do not rot. Sprinkle them with snow every 5 days.

Some amateur vegetable growers advise using buckets for forcing onions. In the walls of the container (a large plastic bottle is also suitable), holes are punched in a checkerboard pattern with a diameter slightly smaller than the bulb. We fill the bottom of the bucket to the first holes with soil and insert bulbs into each from the inside. Then we fill up the soil again - and so on to the very top. We also plant bulbs on the surface of the bucket. Thus, a green vitamin “bush” will appear in your apartment, while taking up very little space.

When growing onions indoors, Nikolai Petrovich recalls, one must take into account such an important feature as the dormant period, that is, the ability of the onion to persist without germinating. Bulbs with a short dormant period (sweet varieties grown in the south) germinate in 2-4 months after harvest, and with a long dormant period (sharp and semi-sharp varieties) - after 4-6 months. Some native vegetatively propagated varieties may not germinate in storage until a new harvest. Therefore, they can be used for forcing during spring and summer.

If you decide to grow onions in a jar of water, then you need to make sure that the bulb does not sink. Only the roots should be in the water. To do this, place a circle of foam plastic 1.5 - 2 cm thick in a jar, cut a hole in it for the roots of the onion, pour water and put the onion in the hole. You can forget about watering.

Onion feathers contain 10 times more vitamins than turnips. In addition, growing green onions create a favorable microclimate, moisturize and disinfect the air, releasing phytoncides.

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The bulbs will germinate faster if they are wrapped in damp burlap before planting and kept in this state for three days. Or, with a sharp knife, cut off the neck of the bulb along the shoulders, soak in warm water at a temperature of plus 30 - 35 degrees and leave for 12 - 15 hours. Bulbs with cut or damaged stems are not suitable for forcing.

By the way

Almost all varieties of onions are suitable for distillation, but it is better to use sharp, multi-growth ones. They form 3-5 leaves from one primordium.

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Ideal for forcing shallots, which produce up to 6 - 12 tender, tasty leaves. Good results can be obtained using varieties of perennial onions: batun, slime, chives. Air bulbs (bulbs) of a multi-tiered onion are also used for distillation. For 25 - 35 days they give 10 - 13 kg of green onions per 1 sq. m.

The freshness of products in the kitchen is a paramount component in the preparation of tasty and high-quality food.

A lot of people harvest vegetables from the autumn period and use them before the new season.

Therefore, many housewives are puzzling over the question of what to do if sprouted or rotted and how to keep vegetables fresh for as long as possible.

Onions begin to germinate if the dormant stage of the plant passes into the growth phase. There are several reasons why this happens:

• with the onset of spring, natural processes are activated, and the onion begins to sprout
• the process can also be accelerated if the vegetables are stored in a warm room with high humidity
• the neck of the onion contains moisture, and if it is too thick, then such fruits will be prone to germination

The appearance of rot is due to the fact that with high humidity and temperature changes, the bulb fogs up and becomes a favorable environment for the development of bacteria.

In some cases, it is important to correctly determine the type of damage in order to eliminate all the consequences as efficiently as possible. In addition to general rot, on the bulb you can find:

• Neck rot - it can be seen even at the harvesting stage, but most often the disease manifests itself 1-2 months after storage. The tops become soft, blacken and covered with mucus. Also, the presence of rot can give off a pungent odor and a cluster of fruit flies.
• Donets rot - you can notice this ailment by fading foliage and white mycelium on the bottom of the fruit. Under the influence of the humidity of the environment, the bulb becomes soft and completely rots.

It is worth remembering that, regardless of the type of rot, it spreads very quickly and if the affected fruits are not removed from the container in time, you can lose the entire crop.

Light onion varieties

When choosing onions for planting, more attention should be paid to the study of varieties, while giving preference to those that have the longest shelf life. From sharp varieties you should choose:

• Arzamas
• Spassky
• Bessonovsky
• Strigunovsky

Semi-sharp varieties of onions:

• Danilovsky
• golden ball
• Belozersky
• Mechkovsky

Sweet has increased internal moisture, which makes it worse to store, so these varieties must be used up as soon as possible, otherwise they will be unsuitable for consumption.

Growing onions for storage

In order for the vegetables to lie as long as possible, you need to properly care for them and follow a few simple rules:

• You can not make a large amount of nitrogen fertilizers, because they significantly reduce the dormant period and as a result, the onion germinates quickly.
• Potassium supplements, on the contrary, make vegetables more stable and also increase their taste characteristics.
• If heavy rainfall occurs at the last stage of fruit ripening, it is necessary to protect the plant from excess moisture, otherwise the onion will become watery and will be prone to rotting.
• You need to harvest only in warm and dry weather to avoid excessive moisture of vegetables.

If you take care of the quality of the grown onions in advance, then storing and preparing them will be much easier.

Preparing the crop for storage

Why do onions germinate during storage, what to do in such a situation? First of all, you need to try to prevent all the undesirable consequences of improper storage:

• In order for the onion to be ready for long-term storage, it is dried, thereby getting rid of excess moisture. There are several ways to carry out this procedure.
• In sunny and warm weather, they are dried right on the street, immediately after harvesting. To do this, completely remove the roots and cut the feathers to a length of 2 centimeters. But if it is planned to store vegetables in braids, the green part is left untouched.
• Then the collected onions are laid out in one layer on the ground and periodically turned over, while choosing damaged specimens. Experienced gardeners recommend using a “hammock” made of shell mesh for drying, in which case the fruits can not be turned over.
• After 5-7 days, the crop can be put into a container and transferred to a permanent storage place.

This is interesting! Damaged bulbs can be easily restored; for this, the top layer of the juicy scale is removed and dried thoroughly, after a certain amount of time the top layer coarsens and turns into a husk.

If it rains constantly during the harvest and it is impossible to dry the onion on the street, you can prepare it for storage at home. To do this, the vegetables are laid out in a dry room with a temperature of 20-25 degrees, for the fastest course of the process, you can use the heater with our devices.

Onions can also be dried in the oven at a temperature of 40-60 degrees. To achieve the desired effect, do not close the oven lid and carefully monitor that the top skin does not dry out.

To fully prepare the onion for storage, additional processing is necessary:

• To prevent germination, the bottom is treated with lime paste or lightly burned.
• You can protect them from decay by sprinkling them with crushed chalk, while taking 20 grams of the active substance per kilogram of the crop.

Readiness can be checked by the quality of the husk, it should rustle and be quite firm.

Conditions that onions require for long-term storage

It is not enough to properly prepare vegetables for storage, it is necessary to provide them with optimal conditions.

Paying attention to the following factors:

• It is customary to store onions at room temperature from 18 to 24 degrees, but some types require colder conditions;
• Humidity should be at the level of 50-70 percent, otherwise the vegetables will deteriorate. To protect the fruit from drying out, the remaining husks are poured onto them. If it is impossible to provide the desired level of humidity in the room, you can put buckets or boxes filled with ash, shavings or lime, they will absorb all the excess emissions.
• The room must be well ventilated, this is necessary in order to avoid stagnation of moisture in the air.

It is best to store such fruits in special rooms, but in the absence of such an opportunity, cabinets, mezzanines or a pantry are quite suitable. Also, in some cases, you can use the refrigerator or balcony.

The storage method should be primarily convenient for a person, but it is also worth adhering to some recommendations:

• Weaving a basket will be a great solution, because it lets air through, is made of environmentally friendly materials and looks beautiful at the same time.
• Wooden or plastic crates are great for those who want to store a lot of onions in a small space because they can be stacked on top of each other without losing quality.
• Quite often, cardboard boxes with holes for ventilation are used as containers.
• If the vegetables are stored in the pantry, then you can use the "grandmother's way" and put them in old stockings or tights.
• When using bags, their height should not exceed 30 centimeters.
• The main advantage of the nets is their transparency, thanks to which you can quickly detect and remove rotten vegetables.
• Onion braids can become a decoration of the kitchen.

Thanks to a huge number of ways to store each person will be able to choose the right one for themselves.

It is worth remembering that in no case should you use plastic bags and bags, they do not allow air to pass through them.

Features of storing various types of onions

All types of onions require an individual approach, and in order to keep vegetables as long as possible, you should follow some rules.

Green onions prefer cold temperatures, so it's common to store them in the refrigerator. To increase the shelf life of the product, you can resort to little tricks:

• sluggish or dry feathers are removed, and the roots are moistened with water, after which they are wrapped in a damp cloth, put in a paper envelope and tied with a rope at the level where the green part begins;
• Before you put the onion in the refrigerator, you can wrap it in food paper.

Leek

• It is customary to store leeks in the sand; for this, a 10-centimeter layer of filler is poured onto the bottom of the box and feathers are deepened into it by 4-5 centimeters
• the easiest way is to place the onion container on the balcony and warm it with a blanket or coat

The ideal temperature for taking is considered to be + 1-2 degrees.

Onion

Onions must be stored in a dry, well-ventilated area in a container that will provide sufficient air circulation.

Sevok

Onion sets are stored primarily for planting next season. In order not to lose the ability to form new bulbs, the seedlings must be stored at a temperature of at least 16 degrees.

Red onion

Sweet varieties are characterized by reduced keeping quality and usually retain their freshness for no longer than 4-5 months.

For longer storage, it is imperative to take into account all the features of each variety.

Alternative storage methods

Onions can be stored either fresh or cooked using the following methods.

Drying

Onions are peeled, cut into thick rings and laid out on a special dryer or baking sheet. Vegetables are cooked for 3-4 hours at a temperature of 60 degrees.

Spin in banks

In order to pickle onions you need:

• The heads are cleaned, washed thoroughly and laid out in an enamel bowl.
• Then prepare a 10% brine.
• Black peas and bay leaf are placed in a container with onions, after which they are poured with brine.
• Then it is necessary to install oppression, which is usually used as a wooden circle and any weighting agent (a few books, a filled jar of water, a large stone, etc.).
• In this form, the onion should stand for at least a week.
• Then the products are laid out in jars, hermetically sealed and stored in a cool place.

Both salted and dried, onions are very tasty and perfectly complement any cold and hot dishes.