Benefit and beauty - a rare combination for garden crops. Schnitt bow has these qualities. He is a storehouse of vitamins and is able to turn an ordinary garden bed into an elegant flower bed.
Schnitt onion is not afraid of frost, not whimsical in care, grows quickly and is very pleasant to taste. That is why in the backyards you can often see thin onion feathers, decorated with lilac and pink flowers "balls".
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Regions of onion growth Schnitt
Spicy onion Schnitt - a multinational plant. He is able to adapt to different climatic conditions. He is loved in the central and southern regions of Russia, in Siberia and in the Far East.
Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia, Italy and Portugal, America, India, Germany - everywhere an elegant little beam feels like home. He has many names: slice, speed, winter or English bow, tribulka and sibulet.
In the wild, it grows in flooded meadows, in river valleys, on scarce and moist, sandy, loamy and comestic soils.
Description
Onion variety Schnitt has a thin awl-shaped feathers, juicy emerald green in color with a slight wax coating. Pen length up to 15 cm. Bulb small, oblong, not suitable for food. Roots filiform, white. Seeds are small, black. From the usual onion it is distinguished by the following parameters:
- early growing season;
- lack of typical bulbs;
- unusual bloom;
- nice and unsharp taste.
Bloom
Onion bloom Schnitt original. It starts in May and lasts all summer. Inflorescences in the form of a ball are formed on the arrows. The balls are made up of a variety of umbrellas in which the seeds are hidden. Color umbrellas can be all shades of purple, lilac and pink. Often Schnitt onions are used in landscape design. It is able to decorate curbs, alpine slides and flower beds.
Beneficial features
Schnitt feathers are not only pleasant to the taste, but also have useful properties, caring for human health. They include a group of vitamins, microelements and amino acids: vitamin C and B, iron, calcium, carotene and proteins.
Among other things Schnitt helps fight garden pests, drives away onion and carrot flies, kills fungal spores affecting roses, fruit trees and gooseberries. With its flowering, it attracts bees, which collect nectar from its sweet umbrellas.
Cooking
Young juicy feathers that have not reached flowering are suitable for food. Of them prepare salads, they are added to the first and second courses., used for filling pies, and of course the Russian okroshka with chisel is always tasty and fragrant.
Schnitt is attractive because it lacks the typical onion flavor and a sharp aftertaste. Often, this wonderful onion can be found in French and Italian cuisine.
Growing up
The variety Schnitt onions is grown in three traditional ways:
- sow seeds.
- planted seedlings.
- grown by dividing the plant.
Seedlings
You can grow onion seedlings from seeds at home. The best sowing time is March. This will require:
- fill container by land;
- shed priming;
- sow seeds;
- slightly sprinkle with sand;
- container cover with foil and put in a dark place;
- air daily and moisten with pulverizer;
- when sprouts appear remove the film and put the container on the sunny windowsill.
Landing in the ridge carried out in late April. Pre-fertilize the ground with compost, dig, remove weed rhizomes. The depth of the planting holes is 1.5 cm, the width of the aisle is 20 cm. 3-4 plants are planted in each well. Water as the soil dries.
Seeds
Onion seeds are small and have a low germination rate. To work with them, you can use the method of stickers on paper tape. (starch paste is applied on toilet paper and seeds are densely placed).
Before planting, it is recommended to soak the seeds and then dry them. However, with soil moisture and sufficient temperature, the seeds sprout perfectly and without soaking. Landing in the ridge is as follows:
- dig the groundloosen up;
- to make small grooves 0.3 cm wide by 20 cm;
- shed water You can add complex fertilizer;
- sow thick seeds;
- sprinkle grooves;
- slightly compact the soil;
- to mulch sawdust, old newspapers, wood rotten;
- water as needed.
The density of seedlings thinned out after the roots get stronger. Unnecessary plants are not thrown away, but planted in another place, for example, in a flower bed.
Dividing bush
Rezanets grows quickly and takes root without any problems. Onions can be divided in spring or in September. This is not difficult to do:
- dig a plant and divide into parts 8-10 roots in each.
- prepare the wells and shed water
- plant vertically at a depth of about 3.5 cm. 30 plants can be planted per 1 square meter;
- after landing compact the soil;
- conduct active watering.
Landing in the winter
Onions can be sown before winter, by analogy with spring sowing, make ridges with sand and drainage land. Sowing in late September, early October. Pre-seed is not soaked.
After sowing, water the beds and mulch them 1 cm. Cover them with foliage, spruce leaves and rags. After the snow falls make a snow blanket. Thus, the seeds will be hardened and amicable shoots will show in the spring.
If you wish, you can spend division of maternal plants and planting “babies” to a new place in the month of September. In this case, the old feather cut to the neck. Within a month, the plant will give young roots, and at the first frost it is desirable to cover the bed with a transplanted onion with spruce leaves, foliage and woven material.
Watering and lighting
Rezanet is not demanding to care. The main thing is to water it abundantly in dry time, he loves moisture. The remaining rules of care are elementary: to loosen, feed, remove weeds, and thin out and plant when thickened.
Watering preferably with settled water, with no chlorine. As for the sun, the Schnitt variety can grow in partial shade and in the sun.
Top dressing
It is often not necessary to apply fertilizer under the chisel. Enough 1 time per season, in July. Fertilizers can be organic. (infusion of mullein, bird droppings) or industrial preparations based on minerals, phosphate and potassium salts.
Diseases and pests
An onion has sustained immunity to diseases and pests, and yet it sometimes happens that it can get sick.
| Name | Description | Measures |
|---|---|---|
| Onion thrips | A small insect eating a plant and drinking its juice | Dig a bow out of the ground and warm it in water at + 50 ° C, then dry it in the sun. |
| Mealy dew | White bloom appears on the feathers | Destroy diseased leaves, then process with any fungicide. |
| Rust | Rust stains | Remove diseased plants with Topaz or Falcon. |
Disease prevention
In order to protect the future harvest from "evil" you need to properly care for the plants. To carry out loosening between rows, weeding the soil on the ridges, to make biological, potash and phosphate fertilizers. Do not overdry or overfill the soil. Inspect onions for the appearance of primary signs of disease.
Harvest
Schnitt unusual onion and its harvest in the fall is not removed in the form of bulbs. There are many other ways to preserve the harvest. Onion feather frozen, dried, pickled. It can be dug and transplanted for the winter into a flower container at home, where it will grow all winter.
You can cover the ridge with a film and feast on fresh and tender greens before the onset of severe frosts. Onion can be collected for storage. They are dried and added to dishes.Do not forget about onion flowers - they can also be dried, salted or frozen.
As you see onion chives has no negative characteristics. A beautiful, tasty, non-capricious, early onion chisel is as if created in order to satisfy all the wishes of the gardeners by their presence in the beds.