What do healthy garlic onions look like?
Keep your eyes peeled when you buy the onions! The onions are carefully inspected. It is not uncommon for onions that are moldy, rotten, shriveled or otherwise look unhealthy to creep in with incorrect storage.
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When buying, you can recognize healthy onions by the fact that they are white-yellow to yellowish in color. The onion skin is dry and relatively clean (free of traces of mold). In addition, the onions should be round, plump and firm.
How deep do you plant the bulbs and where?
When you have found the right onions of a variety that is attractive to you, it's time to start plants this:
- don't wait too long to plant
- sunny to partially shaded location (the larger, the sunnier)
- in a loose, permeable soil
- 10 to 15 cm deep
A healthy onion needs to be nourished
In order for the onion to flower again and again every year, it needs a lot of nutrients above all else. It first pulls this out of the earth. Then she bunkers them partly in the leaves and in the stem. It is recommended to 'feed' this plant with compost every year.
More details about the onions from the ornamental onions
There are other facts that one should know. This means that the onions contain all the power of the plant. The onions draw nutrients from the leaves until the leaves are completely yellow and dried up. The leaves should not be cut off or otherwise removed beforehand.
It is also important to know that the onions:
- do not tolerate moisture
- not always hardy are (depending on type / variety)
- best planted in autumn between September and November
- form the basis for propagation using brood bulbs
Tips
You should dig up the bulbs of frost-sensitive species and varieties in autumn and indoors overwinter.