Onion Parade: growing on greens

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

To obtain high-quality greens in the open field or in a greenhouse, Parade onions are often grown. The variety was bred by Dutch breeders and is ideal for growing from seeds for greens.

The variety has a number of features, including the absence of a bulb, fast growth and long-term preservation of appearance without yellowing of the leaves.

Surely many wanted to grow such onions as they sell in stores. To do this, you need to sow a special variety. Parade onions do not need to be peeled: they can be cut and eaten right away.

Onion Features

To obtain green feathers, batun is grown. One of the best representatives is the parade bow. The variety has the following features:

• Stable, high yield. Subject to the rules of agricultural technology, one square meter can produce up to eight kilograms of onions.
• Mass of bulbs is not more than eighty grams.
• High pen growth rate.
• The length of the green part reaches sixty centimeters.
• Excellent taste.
• Onions are stored for a long time, remaining fresh and tender.
• The plant is not afraid of frost and can be cultivated inwinter greenhouses even at low temperatures.

Luk Parade quickly builds up greens rich in vitamins and minerals. The plant can be grown after any crops: potatoes, peas, beans, cabbage.

A feature of the variety is that it can be cut several times: at least four times.

The plant is characterized by a short growing season - up to seventy days. Between cuts, the feather grows a little more than a month: the more nutrition and moisture, the faster the onion grows.

When growing a feather, the cut is carried out when it becomes one and a half centimeters thick and half a meter high. During this period, the plant has the maximum amount of nutrients, essential oils.

Sowing a variety in the exhaust gas

You can grow Parade onions on a feather in a seedless way. In this way, crops are carried out in open ground in early May, choosing a site with a high level of fertility.

Before you sow the seeds, you need to prepare the garden bed by adding nitrogen fertilizer to it. It can be cow dung, s altpeter. In the latter case, fertilizer consumption is calculated as follows: 40 grams of s altpeter per square meter of land. After incorporating nitrogen into the soil, shallow grooves are made in the prepared bed at a distance of no more than eight centimeters from each other. Seeding depth - no more than two centimeters.

To see how the seeds lay down, you can sprinkle a thin layer of sand on the bottom of the groove. Seeds are placed individually, at a distance of five centimeters from each other. Some gardeners advise laying out two seeds, as onion seedsdo not have a high percentage of germination.

Crops are sprinkled with earth and watered with a watering can. So that the seeds do not dry out and germinate faster, the crops are covered with a film or non-woven fabric, creating mini-greenhouses for them.

When the onion begins to sprout, the shelter is removed.

Growing in OG

When growing Parade onions for greens, it is important to follow the rules of care. They consist in timely weeding, fertilizing, loosening and watering plants.

The first feeding is carried out when the plant has five true leaves. At this time, the onion must be given phosphorus-potassium fertilizer by diluting a tablespoon of granules in ten liters of water. It is necessary to water with fertilizer under the root, preventing the solution from getting on the onion.

The plant is fed in the evening in dry weather.

Irrigation

To make the onion juicy and tasty, it should be watered abundantly. The plant does not tolerate drying out of the soil. In this case, the feathers are gaining bitterness, dry. To prevent this from happening, the onions are watered as the top layer of the soil dries up.

Growing onion seedlings

You can get a feather earlier if you plant Parade onion seeds for seedlings in March. To speed up germination, it is recommended to soak them in water. After that, seedling boxes with nutrient soil are prepared. Ready-made soil of any manufacturer, intended for growing vegetables, is suitable for planting.

Grooves about one centimeter deep are made in the box. Between the rows leave a distance of five centimeters. Primingsprayed with water from a spray bottle.

Seeds are laid out one by one at the bottom of the groove, at a distance of two centimeters from each other. From above, crops are sprinkled with earth. To speed up germination, the boxes are placed in a warm, bright place, at a temperature not lower than 20 degrees, after covering the sowing with glass or film.

After germination, the greenhouse is removed, and the box is transferred to a cooler place where the temperature does not rise above 15 degrees.

When growing seedlings, it is necessary to monitor the level of soil moisture: it should not dry out.

Ready seedlings are planted in a permanent place when the threat of frost has passed.

Growing in a greenhouse

Many grow Parade onions for greenery in a greenhouse. In unheated greenhouses, the variety is grown from early spring to late autumn, in heated greenhouses - all year round.

To get a quality pen, you need to prepare boxes in advance and prepare the ground.

Before planting, the ground is treated with a two percent solution of potassium permanganate and covered with a dark film. So the boxes are left for a week.

After seven days, nutrients are added to the soil: 15 grams of potassium, 20 grams of superphosphate per square meter of boxes put together. Onions are planted in ready-made containers according to the scheme 5 x 7 cm.

You can grow onions in a greenhouse right in the beds. This is done in the same way as growing outdoors, with the only difference being that the plant grows under cover.

Sowing seeds in a greenhouse

Seeds are sown in a greenhouse forthe following rules:

• In early spring, the seeds are disinfected in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Then they are soaked in a solution of "Epin" (two drops per hundred grams of water). After this procedure, they will not contract fungal infections.
• Then prepare boxes for sowing seedlings. They are filled with soil, disinfected. Next, grooves are made to a depth of no more than two centimeters. During this procedure, you should carefully monitor the depth, trying to make it uniform. Otherwise, the seedlings will sprout unevenly.
• Grooves for crops moisturize. As soon as all the water is absorbed, sowing is carried out, laying the seeds on the bottom of the groove one by one. The distance between the seeds is better to leave two centimeters.

Onion care in the greenhouse

Growing Parade onions in greenhouses is a simple matter, the main thing is to observe the temperature regime, lighting, watering and feeding properly.

In the greenhouse, until germination, it is necessary to maintain a temperature of at least 20 degrees. As soon as sprouts appear, it is reduced to fifteen degrees. In this mode, the plant is kept for a week. After hardening the onion, the temperature is again raised to twenty degrees.

For the proper development of a plant, it is not enough to observe only the temperature regime, lighting is also important. Two weeks after germination, seedlings are provided with round-the-clock lighting. If this is not done, then the pen will turn out pale, thin.

Onions, like other plants, need to be fed. If the feathers turn pale andbecome thinner, this is a signal: the plants do not have enough nutrition. Onions are fed with nitrogenous fertilizer, diluting fifteen grams of s altpeter into 10 liters of water. Top dressing is carried out under the root, preventing the solution from getting on the leaf.

The plants in the greenhouse are watered once a week. First use warm water with a temperature of at least 25 degrees. After the temperature is reduced to twenty degrees. Watering with cold water should be avoided, as well as waterlogging, as this can cause the bulb to rot.

Reviews

Reviews about the bow Parade are only the most positive. This plant is valued by gardeners for its growth rate, excellent feather, high taste and commercial qualities. The Parade onion variety is often used to obtain feathers for sale.

Many gardeners have come to the conclusion that it is necessary to sow the plant as early as possible, while there is no heat and scorching sun. There are complaints that the seeds did not germinate well. This is due to the fact that the crops were carried out in May. In some regions at this time the sun is already scorching, overdrying the soil. In order for the seeds to hatch, they need to retain moisture, and for this it is recommended to plant earlier - in mid-April. So you can avoid too frequent watering, keeping the soil moisture at the right level.

There are opinions that planting is best done in seedlings. So you can sow seedlings in boxes in early spring, and take them outside with the onset of heat: the seedlings will harden off, and night frosts will not kill the sprouts.

Some summer residentsgrow onion seedlings in a greenhouse, using several crops with a difference of two weeks. Thus, summer residents get more harvest and do not wait for the feather to grow back. Caring for a new plant that is planted in fresh soil is much easier than trying to maintain a plant that has already produced.

Seeds

To get a good onion crop, you need to thoroughly approach the choice of seeds. They must be packaged by a reputable agricultural company and have a long shelf life. Those packages that have a short shelf life may not rise, and this is a waste of time and money.

Among proven agricultural firms offering Parade, the best are: "Search", "Aelita", "Garden and Garden". According to reviews, these companies offer seeds with a high percentage of germination, and given that the onion itself has a germination rate of no more than eighty percent, the performance of these companies (78-88%) is excellent.

When deciding to grow onions, it is important not only to choose the right producer, but also to choose a good, nutritious soil. Ideally, if the gardener independently composes "tasty" soil, taking sand (1 part), humus (1 part), well-rotted manure (two parts), leafy soil (1 part). In this soil, the onion grows quickly, producing beautiful dark green feathers, more than 50 centimeters long.