Make the right decision when choosing a variety
With the variety of varieties that are offered in stores, there is certainly something for every taste. Basically, it's about whether you'd rather
- finely spicy shallots,
- strong kitchen onions or even
- huge vegetable onions
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want to process in his kitchen. You also have to choose between winter and summer onion sets.
If you are not sure which onions you want to grow, try combining small quantities first. However, the different types of onions must not stand next to each other in the garden because they do not get along well. There is nothing wrong with putting winter and summer onions in different places in the garden. In any case, preference should be given to the resistant varieties that can survive a cool, damp summer unscathed.
Prepare the soil
Plan an onion bed in your garden design in good time. There the soil should be cleared of weeds beforehand and loosened well. Digging up with organic
fertilizer is recommended long in advance of planting. For example, for spring planting, the beds should be prepared in autumn, in no case immediately before the onion sets are planted in the ground.Care should be taken that the onion sets are not placed in the same place in the garden for the second time in a row. Incidentally, the onions leave well loosened soil so that they can also be used to improve the soil in desired places in the garden. Onions do best in a sunny and airy place.
Prepare the onions
As a rule, the plug-in items purchased from specialist retailers are ready for use. However, you should remove the onions yourself last year Seeds grown a little "heat treatment" before shooting is recommended. About four weeks beforehand, the onions are kept at temperatures between 25 and 35 ° C.
Onions are set in autumn or spring
Winter onions are between August and October, Spring onions potted from the end of March. Only a sufficient row spacing of 25-30 cm has to be observed here. The distance between the onions should be 5-10 cm depending on the variety (note the instructions on the packaging!). The onions are not completely stuck in the ground, a point should still stick out. The beds with the mated onions should be kept evenly moist and weed-free.
Tips & Tricks
Place a few onions in the lettuce beds between the individual lettuce plants. This helps keep the voracious snails away from the fresh salad vegetables. Because snails don't like onions.
