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- Everything about harvesting onion onions
- Know the right time to harvest
- Harvest onion
- Store onion onions
Everything about harvesting onion onions
Naturally, seed bulbs for the next garden year are harvested sooner than adult bulbs. Read here what you need to keep in mind when picking onion.
Know the right time to harvest
In March-April you sown the onion seeds to get your onion bulbs for the next gardening season? Now the densely grown onion bulbs are to be harvested. This is usually the case at the end of July. One recognizes the harvesting - as with a full-grown onion - because the foliage has turned yellow.
In addition, the onion should have reached a certain size until harvest. Optimal is a diameter of about 1.5 cm or the size of a hazelnut. Too large onions tend to shoot. If too small onion pickles are harvested, there is a risk that they will dry out until they are plugged in in the spring.
If one or the other specimen is too small or oversized, you can already plant such onion in the fall of the same year. So they will drive out in early spring and if not for large tubers, at least for the fresh green in the salad care.
Harvest onion
When picking onion, the same procedure should be followed as when harvesting full-grown onions. These too must dry well in the air so that they can be stored. The healthy onions are firm and dry. The herb is removed after complete drying.
Store onion onions
For storage of onion to planting it is important that the room is frost-free, cool and dry. The best way to keep the onions in networks on, at least to ensure good air circulation. Before setting, the onion bulbs are heated by keeping them in the heated room at 25-35 ° C for about four weeks. This measure is intended to prevent, inter alia, the annoying shooting