Growing onion varieties Eksibishen: some recommendations

onion family includes more than 200 types of crops grown in Europe.The most popular and are cultivated leeks, shallots, onions and garlic.Not long ago, the family has got another sort of onions, called Eksibishen.

This variety is the result of the work of breeders from Holland company Bejo Zaden.Grade turned an annual, mid, not intended for long-term storage (not more than 4 months), but extremely fruitful - the yield from 1 square.m square, the average is 2.3 kg.The bulbs are oval, juicy, sweet, ideal for salads.The weight of the bulb, on average, 110 g, but it may, in some cases, as high as 500 or even 800, recommended the cultivation of onions in the backyard and suburban areas.Planting is carried out using as a seed and seedling method.

seedling cultivation of onion provides a larger bulbs, but requires a lot of effort.The best is to make the cultivation of onions from seeds, which are recommended to prepare in advance.Sowing in open ground Eksibishen onion cultivation is proposed in the material master must be somewhere in April, so the seed can, slowly, prepared in February and March.Since the size of the seed is very small, and the sow should be no less than 5 cm, the most rational and convenient would first secure them on the tape.

's how: first, preparing the most common starch paste slabotekuchey consistency, to which you add powdered fertilizer with a complete set of minerals and trace elements, such as AVA.The resulting mixture to pass into the container, from which it will be convenient to squeeze out a drop.This can be a plastic bottle with a hole in the lid and a straw or the usual desirable durable plastic bag with a small hole in the corner.Bands convenient to take a roll of toilet paper, cut crosswise into two or three parts with a sharp knife.On the strip, every five centimeters, squeezed a drop of glue mixture with fertilizers and forceps they laid the seeds of onions.It is necessary to give the paste to dry, fold strips in rolls and leave to term.

sow onions Eksibishen, cultivation of which is not a complicated process and very grateful to be in a loose, fertile, non-acidic soil to a depth of 1.5 cm. In order to obtain large onion, pen on the greens tearing is not recommended.Further cultivation of onions requires timely watering, weeding the weeds and most importantly - loosening the soil.Seedlings will appear after about 10 days.From germination to harvesting will take about 130 days, a month before this should completely stop watering.The signal for the fact that it's time to bow, will be some thinning of the stem, leaf yellowing and lodging.It should not tighten with the harvest, or the growth of onion bulbs and resumes again become unfit for storage.

When growing onions Eksibishena supposed seedling method, the plant seeds in a box to be in March.The thickness of the topsoil should be at least 10-15 cm. The seeds are sown at a depth of 1.5 cm rather densely, water and a box covered with foil or glass, which can be removed after germination.Watering produce moderate, should also, water the plants, and just before planting in open ground.Landing on the land to make the month of May, in a prepared and fertile soil.Seedlings carefully to hook together with the soil and, after having cut back by 1/3 length, planted at a distance of 20-25 cm from each other.During the growing season the plant does not require additional fertilizing, and requires only moderate watering and timely loosening of soil.