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Onion on turnip and greens are grown today by many farmers. This vegetable is rich in vitamins and nutrients. Onions are widely used in cooking. This vegetable is rich in vitamin C, few vegetables can compete with it. It is fashionable to eat green onions and turnips fresh and add them to salads. This vegetable is always on sale, but growing it at home allows you to get environmentally friendly products.
Some gardeners, especially those who are just beginning to master agricultural technology growing onions for turnips and feathers, they believe that the harvest can be obtained without the use of fertilizers. They use traditional methods of fertilizing the beds that our ancestors used. One effective option is yeast feeding for onions. The yield of green feathers or turnips is doubled with the correct use of homemade fertilizer. Although mineral supplements should not be ignored. Onions have no equal in the presence of vitamin C. That is why onions are eaten fresh and added to salads.
What can you grow onions from?
Growing a good crop green onions depends not only on fertilizing, but also the correct choice of planting material.
There are many varieties of leaf onions, such as batun, slime onion, leek and others.To obtain feathers, nigella onions are sown in fertile soil. The first greenery can be cut no earlier than after 3 months.
You can get a harvest of green feathers using the forcing method. To do this, take a large onion set, it is also called a selection. Before planting, it is necessary to cut off the top of the onion up to the shoulders. In this form, the seedlings are planted in the ground.
The greenery grows quickly. The first harvest is usually harvested after 25-30 days. At this time, the feathers reach a length of about 30 cm. After cutting, the mother bulb is not removed. Plantings need to be well fed and wait for further feather growth. As a rule, one bulb produces three harvests per season. After that it is dug up.
How to feed onions
As a rule, at first the plant needs mineral fertilizers. In total, onions are fed three times during the growing season:
- When the length of the green feathers reaches 10 cm, and this is the beginning of May, you need to take care of feeding. All formulations are given for 10 liters of water.
- The first time the onions are fed with a solution: superphosphate (15 grams) + potassium sulfate (5 grams) + urea (10 grams).
- In the second feeding after 3 weeks, dilute nitrophoska - 30 grams.
- To feed onions in June, granular superphosphate is used - 30 grams.
If it rains continuously, these mineral fertilizers are sprinkled under the plants. They dissolve well in rainwater. You can apply fertilizer before loosening or into the furrows at a shallow depth.
Let's find other uses for yeast
In recent years, some gardeners have decided to use the old-fashioned method of feeding onions per feather. Oddly enough, this well-known product gives a good effect. We're talking about baker's yeast. In ordinary life, this product is used to produce fluffy bread and buns. Yeast is an integral ingredient in the production of kvass, wines, and beer.
The presence of amino acids and microelements has made baker's yeast indispensable for root feeding of garden and vegetable crops. What is unique about this product for plants?
Benefits of yeast feeding
Not every gardener uses mineral fertilizers when growing onions. Fertilizing plants with yeast allows you to obtain green products without chemicals. What role does this product play for onions:
- Increases the yield of plantings. Due to the growth of a good root system, the green mass quickly increases.
- Plants become more resistant to diseases, including fungal and pests, as the immune system is strengthened. Yeast fungi, growing, displace pathogenic bacteria.
- Yeast fertilizers saturate the soil with nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and oxygen.
It is clear that it is not the yeast itself that is introduced into the garden, but the compositions obtained on its basis. The action of yeast fungi begins at a temperature of at least 20 degrees. That is why onions are fertilized when the soil warms up well. Fertilizing at low temperatures will have no effect; the yeast will simply die.
Timing of yeast feedings
Fertilizing onions with yeast when forcing them to grow is not yet often used by gardeners.Therefore, they are often interested in when and how many times they can feed plants with such an unconventional fertilizer. The first time at the end of May, then after each cutting of green onions.
The fact is that yeast increases the acidity of the soil and washes out potassium and calcium. To avoid this problem, yeast fertilizing is carried out with the addition of wood ash. You can also add dried and crushed chicken egg shells to the soil.
Cooking rules and recipes
To prepare yeast dressings, you can use dry and raw (wet) yeast. Some gardeners use sprouted grains and hop cones. Each method has its own characteristics. The main thing is to maintain proportions so as not to harm the onion plantings.
But in any case, it is necessary to water when the soil warms up, and use warm water to breed yeast. When breeding bulk yeast, 5 liters of water are needed. Wet yeast is diluted in 10 liters.
Recipes with yeast
Let's consider different options for yeast feeding for onions:
- 10 grams of dry yeast, 50 grams of sugar are poured into a ten-liter container with warm water and placed in a warm place for 2 days. Before watering, dilute with warm water: 5 parts water to 1 part starter.
- Add 10 grams of granulated yeast, sugar, 200 grams of wood ash or chicken manure to 10 liters of warm water. The composition can be used after 3 days. Before feeding, take one liter of solution per 10 liters of water.
- A 10-liter container will require 100 g of dry yeast, bread crusts or black crackers, and sugar. The solution should stand in a warm place for at least 4 days. Diluted 1:10.
- Chop nettles into a large container, weedy herbs, add warm water and leave to ferment. The vitamin composition is placed in the sun and constantly stirred for a week. Then add half a kilogram of raw yeast. After 3 days you can feed the onions. Pour one liter of starter into 10 liters of water.
Yeast substitutes
- For 10 liters of warm water (no more than 40 degrees) you will need up to 600 grams of crackers or stale bread, 1 kilogram of chopped weeds, 500 grams of raw yeast, 500 grams of wood ash or crushed eggshells. The solution is infused in a warm place for 3 days. Used for root feeding when growing onions. Add a liter of yeast starter to 10 liters of water.
- Pour a kilogram of wheat grains with warm water and leave for germination for a day. Pass the crushed grains through a meat grinder, add 6 large spoons of sugar and flour. The result should be a mass resembling thick sour cream. After boiling, the composition is left to ferment by adding 5 liters of water. Diluted before feeding in the same way.
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Let's sum it up
Growing onions for feathers is a fascinating activity. You can get green nutritious products throughout the year. Some gardeners grow onions on a windowsill, in a greenhouse and in open ground - a real vitamin conveyor.
The use of yeast as a fertilizer allows us to obtain an environmentally friendly product with an accelerated ripening period. You just need to remember that there is no need to overfeed the soil and plants with yeast. Everything must be according to the rules.
