How to water onions?

Onions are grown by many: both gardeners-professionals, and summer lovers. Even in urban apartments on balconies and loggias, you can find boxes with green stems. And this is not surprising, because this plant has remarkable bactericidal and antiseptic properties and helps the body to resist viruses. In addition, onions promote digestion and improve appetite, and also fight infectious diseases. However, growing this plant, you need to know how to water onions.

It is from the correct watering and care will depend on the quantity and quality of the crop. It is necessary to observe certain rules: timely loosen the soil, remove weeds and pests, feed and fertilize the plant.

Watering

Let's consider more in detail how often it is necessary to water onions. At the stage of bulb formation, soil moisture must be high enough. Therefore, if the plant is grown in a region with a dry climate, it should be watered often. It is recommended to perform irrigation before weeding out the weeds or immediately after weeding. Talking about how to properly water onions, it should be noted that water is best poured into specially formed grooves between rows of plants, and not directly under the bulb. This method of watering allows you to get a better harvest faster. And this bow will be stored longer.

A good way to determine how often you need to water a bow is to check the soil with your fingers. If the ground at a depth of one finger phalanx is wet, then you can wait and water. If the soil is dry and loose, then the plant needs water. It is also necessary to remember that about a month before harvest, somewhere from the middle of June, watering onions should be stopped.

Care

To assemble a good and quality harvest of onions will help to properly care for the plant during its growing. It is recommended to make regular weeding and loosening the ground. Weeds, picking up moisture from bulbs, can reduce the amount of harvest by 10%. Therefore it is important to get rid of them regularly and in a timely manner. Soil loosening also has a very beneficial effect on the formation of the plant. Bulbs grown in loose ground, are larger and stored longer.

Many pests can also cause trouble. For example, an onion fly lays eggs on a plant's scales. And the hatched larvae feed on the bulb, contributing to its drying. For prevention, it is recommended to water the onions with salt water. And already infected plants must be removed from the soil and burned.