Smart gardeners always carry out this procedure before planting onions, and then they are sure to get an enviable harvest.
Every gardener dreams of growing not only a lot of juicy and emerald onion feathers, but also digging up an onion the size of which is comparable to an apple.
Bulbs no bigger than a plum are unlikely to surprise or please anyone. Summer residents often get a mediocre result because of one mistake.
It concerns the period when it is necessary to prepare planting material. Some summer residents immediately put the bulbs into the ground without preliminary processing.
When to plant
For spring planting, you need to carefully select a period when it is not too hot, but not too cold either.
The optimal average daily temperature is +8 °C. If it is a little cooler, it will not harm the onion, but it will take longer to root.
Soil preparation
Prepare a mixture of chalk, compost and ash. The nutrient composition is distributed over the bed, and then the soil is dug up. After leveling, furrows are made at a distance of 30 cm from each other.
Preparing the bulbs
To ensure that the planting material takes root better and is not damaged by rot or other diseases, it must be soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate for 2 hours.
Solution recipe: 4 g of potassium permanganate per 1 liter of water. The bulbs can be placed in a net or stocking so that they can be quickly removed from the solution. Before sowing, the bulbs must be washed and dried.
