Onions grow well on loamy, sandy loam and cultivated peat soils.
The plant requires light and watering, especially during the period of bulb formation.
It is best to plant onions after cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, cabbage or beans. But before all this, there is one important nuance.
It concerns soaking onions. For example, some amateur gardeners advise keeping the planting material in soda or iodine solution. It is believed that this method prevents bolting.
However, agronomists do not recommend relying on this advice. Soaking in iodine will not save if the bulbs were stored incorrectly.
Neither a drugstore product nor soda will prevent the appearance of arrows, because the flower bud has already been formed. An arrow grows from it.
The process is inherent in nature. Only proper storage of the bulb will protect against this process. But soaking in various means, dictated by folk wisdom, can sometimes spoil the planting material.
