How to plant onions on greens on a windowsill
There are several ways to plant the onions on the greens on the windowsill and cut off the fresh seasoning throughout the calendar year.
How to plant and grow green onions on a windowsill
What is suitable for the windowsill
Several varieties are suitable for growing onions on a windowsill, among which they yield:
- leek,
- kind of shallots,
- onion,
- shnitt.
However, the most common type of onion that can be grown both in summer and winter is the common onion.
Any kind of onion can be grown at home, but the hostess gives preference to those who have many rudiments, that is, there are several nests in one turnip. Such bulbs will definitely sprout. Among these multi-primordial onion crops, the Chernigov onion, Timiryazevsky species, and Bessonovsky variety are distinguished.
An important condition for the selected variety to sprout at home is the correctly selected seed - sowing. The bulbs should not be damaged by rot, they should preferably be of the same size with a diameter of 2 to 4 cm. It is more advisable to plant larger turnips when they are already starting to sprout on their own, since the sprouted bulbs have a shorter time for fresh greens to appear.
Choosing a medium for planting
There is more than one way how to grow green onions on a windowsill in winter. It can be planted in potting soil or fresh herbs can be sprouted in water.
Preparing the soil
Growing onions on a windowsill in winter in an apartment can be done by planting in the ground, for which you need to prepare the soil. Land for a home garden can be purchased ready-made at an agricultural store. For growing onions, mixtures with a high sandy component or universal are suitable. Some people try to grow a feather in a pot in sawdust with added earth.
You can make soil for plants yourself without a ready-made mixture. It is possible to grow a feather in soil at home in an ordinary flower pot, you can plant it in a box, even a plastic bottle without a top will do. Before planting the bulbs, drainage is laid at the bottom of the containers, which is a mixture of expanded clay or brick chips with sand, then the container is filled with peat, humus and ordinary earth at the rate of 7/2/1.
For growing onions on a windowsill, any soil can be used with the exception of clay.
Fertilizers containing phosphorus and ash in a ratio of 1-2% of the total soil volume are added to the prepared soil, where the greenery will germinate.
Planting onions on greens in the soil of the house is often done by bridging, which involves planting the bulbs fairly densely. At the same time, the turnips themselves are not covered with earth, at least their halves are on the surface.
Growing greens in water
Every second person successfully tried to grow onions in the water on the windowsill in the home garden. They did it out of habit in glass jars and glasses. To get fresh feathers from the bulb quickly, you need a small container where you can pour water.In this case, such a container must be selected so that only the roots of the plant are in the water, otherwise the onion will begin to rot.
The constructed structure of a plastic egg container will allow you to grow not one bulb in the water, but a whole home garden.
If such a suitable vessel is not found, ordinary stationery cardboard or a lid from a cardboard box, in which a hole with a diameter of the size of a turnip is made, can help to solve the problem so that the bulb is firmly fixed in the cardboard.
Planting care
Depending on the decision made, how to grow onions on the windowsill, both care and harvesting depend.
In order for the roots of the plant to form and anchor in the ground, the container is placed in a cool place where sunlight does not fall. After 10 days, the onions will need warmth for a fresh feather to come out. The optimum temperature for growing onion greens at home will be 18-20 ° C.
When growing onions in soil, they are watered at intervals of a day, additionally sprinkling the sprouted greens.
The crop is not cut off immediately, as a rule, the first feather is not affected, so as not to suspend its further growth.
Onions planted in the soil are harvested after 2-3 weeks, when the feather already grows up to 30 cm long. In this case, fresh shoots are cut off to the base, sometimes the sprouted bulb is pulled out entirely.
When growing green onions in water on a windowsill, it must be remembered that initially, for several days, the water must be changed at least once a day. A little later, this is done up to several times a week.
Germinating bulbs are inspected each time for the appearance of rotten spots, while unusable plants are removed so that they do not spread bacteria through the water.
When growing onions in water, adding wood ash or mineral fertilizers at the rate of up to 5 g per 1 liter is suitable as a top dressing. Do this when the first greenery appears.
The grown harvest of onions for greens in winter on the windowsill is harvested after 10 days - a couple of weeks.
Growing from seeds
If it is quite simple to grow green onions for greens from a ready-made onion, then it is possible to get fresh onion sprouts from seeds only with a lot of effort. The technology of seed growing of onion greens is possible at home. How long will it take? You can wait for the first shoots from the planted culture no earlier than after 1.5 months.
Germinating green feathers from seeds has its advantages: it has a longer life cycle. With proper care of the plant and regular fertilizing with minerals, the green feather can be removed for several years.
Before planting, onion seeds must be soaked in water, which is pre-settled, overnight they are placed in a solution of potassium permanganate. A mixture with vermicompost is selected as a soil for seed planting. As in the case of planting whole bulbs in the soil, drainage is laid at the bottom of the container, where onions will grow on greens. Onion seeds are placed at a depth of about 2 cm, the container is covered with a film before the seeds germinate in order to maintain the desired temperature of 20-25 ° C. Only when the first greens appear, the temperature drops to 18-14 ° C. In about a couple of months it will be possible to harvest.