Growing onions in your garden is easy as pie, but not everyone can harvest really large and juicy onions.
If your goal is to get a lot of huge and tasty onions on your hundred square meters, then follow 2 simple tips.
Where to plant onions on the plot
To grow large bulbs, find a bed for your onions that gets plenty of light.
The cold-resistant crop can be sown as early as possible, and the optimal time in spring is April-May.
How to fertilize onions
You won't have to apply a lot of fertilizer if you follow crop rotation principles.
The beds are fertilized starting in the fall, not forgetting about green manure, which is most useful in terms of improving the health of the soil.
Onion Fertilizer Recipe
If you are not satisfied with the store-bought “Effekton” and “Agricole”, then use a folk remedy with ammonia and this feeding scheme with ammonia.
Fertilizer is applied three times per season:
- the first time: dilute 1.5 tablespoons of ammonia in 5 liters of water and water the beds.
- the second time: add 2.5 tablespoons of the substance and 20 g of liquid laundry soap to 5 liters of water.
- third time: the composition of the fertilizer does not change (2.5 spoons of the substance are added to 5 liters).
