Onion sets: description and selection of varieties

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vOn-set is the name of the planting material for common onion, not its variety. Onions are known to people for their useful and healing properties, for a long time our ancestors grew them on their lands, believed in their magical properties and treated diseases with them.

Onion sets

Nowadays, onions are an indispensable product in cooking, and the ability to grow them yourself is happiness for a gardener. It is important to plant the sevok correctly and take care of it, knowing some of the subtleties.

Varieties, their description and characteristics

There are many varieties that are suitable for home growing. The best of them passed all types of tests for growing in difficult conditions before selection.

How to choose varietal onion sets with a description by type?

Hercules (aka Gulliver or Hercules)

Hercules (Gulliver) is a very prolific onion variety (from 1 square meter you can harvest up to 7 kg). Through a long selection process, this onion variety has been bred from the common Dutch bulb. With proper care, it has a long shelf life, quick ripening and pest resistance.

Snowball

Snowball, or Snowball, is a white variety that has a mild flavor and is used for making salads. The characteristics of the fruits are as follows: white pulp, which is grown everywhere, because the variety is unpretentious to temperature conditions. You can store the fruits until spring.

Strigunovsky local

Another variety of onion sets, unpretentious to climatic conditions. It can be grown in both arid and humid climates. Everywhere, Strigunovsky is eaten raw and is added to various dishes during the cooking process.

Turbo

Large bulbs need fertile soil. The shelf life of the Turbo variety is approximately 6-8 months. It is more often used for cooking some dishes, raw and for herbs because of the sharp taste it is rarely used. It is advised to dig up the bulbs after the "tail" has completely dried out.

Troy

Troy is an early maturing, semi-sharp (but not sharp) variety. Its yield is up to 5 kg per 1 sq. m. Diseases inherent in onion crops, not susceptible.

Helenas

Helenas belongs to the mid-early. It has a white-green pulp and is often eaten raw. Disadvantages: instability to temperature extremes and short shelf life (up to six months).

Senshui

Senshui is a frost-resistant (up to -15 ° C) variety obtained by the Japanese during selection. It is used for food and preservation. It has an early ripening period and a long shelf life.

Elan

Elan is an early ripener. When sliced, it does not cause tears, therefore it is widely used in cooking and is approved for use by people with problems of the gastrointestinal tract.

Setton

Setton is one of the most popular varieties and is resistant to shooting. It has a pungent taste, early ripening, long storage time (up to 7 months). Suitable for both professional and amateur cultivation of sets.

Rumba

Rumba is characterized by a medium ripening period, pungent flavor and white flesh enclosed in yellow-brown scales. The low yield (from 3.5 to 5 kg per 1 sq. M) does not allow making it a stock in the winter, but for a feather it is the best choice.

Shakespeare

Shakespeare is a precocious winter onion variety. The white pulp has a semi-sharp taste. The vegetable is resistant to diseases and pests, and also tolerates low temperatures well (down to -18 ° C). In demand, because has large heads and good qualities.

Glad Stone

Stone has a sweet taste. Long shelf life, unpretentiousness to climatic conditions and resistance to shooting make Gladstone an irreplaceable variety among competitors. It can be sown in early spring and mid-summer.

Corrado

Corado ripens early, the crop planting type is ribbon. The scales are dense and the flesh is white. The bulb is flat-rounded, sometimes slightly elongated upward. This variety has long shelf life, up to a new harvest. The vegetable is distinguished by the average weight of the bulb and frost resistance, the ability to transplant it into seeds, and the pest does not eat it either.

Rosanna (Rossana)

Rossana, aka Rosanna, is a long-term, but not frost-resistant variety. Its scales are red with yellow blotches, the flesh is dense and sweet. Such a vegetable is highly resistant to shooting, pests and onion diseases.

Shetana

Shetana, or Shatana, is characterized by medium ripening periods and fertility (up to 5 kg), as well as low frost resistance and resistance to shooting and various pests and diseases. It has a rounded shape, golden scales and juicy white flesh.

Lyubchik

Lyubchik has an elongated oval bulb. It is also characterized by excellent shelf life (up to 7-8 months) and excellent taste. Bulbs are used in cooking and conservation.

Electrician

Electrician is a mid-season red onion variety. It is characterized by a sweet, tangy taste and is mainly used in salads. Suitable for growing in the cold season and perfectly tolerates frost.

Radar

The radar belongs to mid-season winter varieties, has a high cold resistance and dense outer and inner scales. The latter provides long shelf life (7-8 months, which is not typical for winter crops).

globe

The globe has an average yield and ripening time, a rounded, slightly oval (hence the name) shape and a very long shelf life. The scales of the vegetable are golden yellow, and the flesh is considered white, although it has a yellowish tint.

Breeze

The branch can be stored for a long time (up to 10 months), the flesh of the product is juicy and white, and the scales on the outside have a yellow-golden color. The characteristic notes a low frost resistance, but excellent resistance to diseases and pests. The taste is not very pronounced, pleasant, and the feather and the fruit are used for culinary purposes. With Vetraz you can make frying, salting, and freezing.

Corado F1

Early ripening and spicy, spring Corrado variety. The color of the scales of its fruits is pink, reddish. It is resistant to diseases and pests, which makes it possible to choose it as a variety for agricultural business. A high yield allows you to make a stock of seeds and leave the fruits in stock for the winter.

Turnip

Turnip is the most popular planting variety. You can get a fairly large amount of harvest from it if you know how to grow green onion sets. The turnip is used both in cooking and in conservation.

Planting and sowing

For a better harvest, it is recommended to grow onion sets yourself from seeds (seeder). First you need to choose the right place for sowing "nigella". The most favorable are the beds where potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers or cabbage have grown before.It is these predecessors that save different types of onions from vitamin deficiency.

In order to reduce the risk of pest damage to the seed, you should not plant it in the same place for several years. The earth needs rest.
A place for sowing seedlings should be chosen on the sunny side, where the beds will receive enough light. The soil at the planting site must be fertile, otherwise the feather will sprout poorly.
The soil must be properly prepared before planting: cleaned of weeds and dug up. Before that, during the fall, the soil should be fertilized with potash and phosphorus fertilizers, compost and rotted manure. Fresh manure is categorically not recommended to use, because when it is used as a fertilizer in the second half of plant growth, the growth of feathers, and not bulbs, increases. If the soil that was selected for planting is highly acidic, it must be treated with lime.
The right time for sowing is at the end of April and the first days of March.
After the cold weather subsides, the seeds should be prepared for planting. To do this, they must be soaked in a damp cloth or water for a day (24 hours) or until the first shoots appear. This promotes better germination. After soaking, the seeds should be dried in a shady place. Finally, there should be seed treatment with agents against diseases and pests (neck rot and onion fly).
In the dug ground, make shallow grooves (up to 2 cm), pour water over them. It is important to maintain the correct distance between the rows of seeds (8 to 13 cm). Seeds should be placed at a distance of 5 mm to 2 cm.
It is necessary to properly care for the sowing: fertilize it and water it in the first half of its growth. If the soil where the sowing was performed is fertile, additional feeding is not required. Watering should be stopped a month before harvesting.
After harvesting, it is important to sort the bulbs by size (sorting is an important process) and hang them in a nylon in a warm (18 to 22 ° C) and dry room.

Growing onions from sets does not require special skills, everything is within the limits of primitive knowledge of the garden. In the next season, the already prepared planting material must be planted in the ground. You can skip the first stage and buy ready-made onion sets, but self-preparation of the planting material is always much better and gives a higher yield in the end.

Ready-made onion sets (planter) are sown in spring or autumn. The planting and planting steps are not too different from the planting care described above.

Planting sevka in spring

Planting seedlings in the open ground in the spring has its own characteristics and requires compliance with certain rules:

Choose a sunny location with fertile soil and good air flow.
In the fall, prepare the soil: clear weeds, dig up, apply peat fertilizer and rotted manure (not simultaneously with lime). In the spring - dig up and apply mineral fertilizers.

A week before planting, the land must be treated with a solution of water and copper sulfate or phytosporin (a solution of water and phytosporin). Dilute water and vitriol at the rate of 10 liters per 1 tbsp. l.

Warming up the onion. 15-20 days before planting, you need to start heating the already sorted bulbs at a temperature close to 10 ° C, and 7 hours before planting - at 35 ° C.
Onion processing. Before planting, the bulbs can be treated with a growth stimulant or placed in a 1% copper sulfate solution for 20 minutes.
Loosen the soil at the planting site, make grooves, 2-4 cm deep at a distance of 20-25 cm. Plant the bulbs with an interval of 5-8 cm. It is not worth pressing the planting material into the ground: this can deform the bulbs.

Planting sevka in autumn does not differ in technical features from planting in spring.

For autumn procedures, it is better to take Strigunovsky, Carmen, Danilovsky or other winter varieties of onions, but they have a number of special requirements, you need to know how to feed this type of onion sets. It also does not hurt to learn how to water the onion sets for planting and storage in the winter.

First, it is important to choose the smallest bulbs, while the neck does not need to be cut off. It is important to select the best bulbs that are good enough for forcing. The beds need to be insulated before planting. The bed for the onion sets should be 4-5 cm deep.

Growing onions from sets: care

To get a large harvest of onions, you need to know the secrets: how to feed, when to water and irrigate the onion sets, how to cut the onion sets. Growing and grooming determines the growth and yield of a crop. For large sowing, special agricultural technology is needed; for small and medium sowing, you can do it on your own.

As soon as the seed sprouts and the first greens appear (the feather becomes about 10 cm in length), it is worth starting to weed the weeds and loosen the soil so that the beds receive as much nutrients as possible.

How to water onion sets

Watering in May - June should be done once a week, later - cut and not water the onions so often that the soil does not absorb a lot of moisture, and the planting material does not grow into greens, but is large. A month (30 days) before harvesting, watering must be stopped altogether or the soil must be moistened every other day.
The grower must loosen the soil throughout the growing process so that the crop is large and can survive well over the winter. It is necessary to remove weeds in a timely manner and weed the soil. When the feathers become long (10-12 cm), a hoe should go between the rows, make grooves and carry out the first fertilization.
You can take a saline solution for processing.

How to trim onion sets

Gardeners are wondering when to cut onion sets? If arrows begin to appear on the feathers (looks like garlic), you need to prune and leave only that part of the shoot that does not have an arrow. Usually the crop is harvested in August (there are species that ripen in July) and it is not difficult to harvest the crop. If the onion eats a small worm during its growth, it is necessary to process it with pest control agents.

Sowing onion sets at home is a profitable and uncomplicated business if you know how to properly care for it so that it sprouts, gives a large harvest and lasts the winter. If the crop is small, you should change the planting site for the next season and sow the seeds elsewhere, or leave the resulting onions for the winter and plant the seedlings as seedlings in the spring, so it grows better. Agricultural technology is well developed and offers a large selection of devices (the best fractions will cost a pretty penny) for cultivating the land, but in the process of growing onions, you can do everything with your own hands.

Conclusion

You can dry onions at home in good conditions in winter so that they do not sprout, and then choose seedlings from which the grower can grow the most delicious onions. If you grow varieties of winter onions (planting from autumn to winter), you can get the maximum number of shoots after sampling this material and planting it in the spring.

An experienced gardener knows that onions can complement any garden (from family to professional). If a beginner is afraid to plant this plant for the first time, it is worth noting that the onion disappears and dries extremely rarely, if it is properly looked after even before germination. It is necessary to look at the calendar, estimate how long it takes to do land work, buy the right seeds, prepare fractions and plant. Growing onion sets will allow you to always have a storehouse of vitamins at home.