The onion family includes more than 200 speciescultures growing in Europe. The most popular and cultivated are leeks, shallots, onions and garlic. Not so long ago the family got another sort of onion, called Exibishen.
This variety was the result of the work of breedersfirm from the Netherlands Bejo Zaden. The variety turned out to be one-year, medium-sized, not intended for long-term storage (no longer than 4 months), but extremely yielding - harvest from 1 sq. Km. m area, on average, is 2.3 kg. Bulbs have an oval shape, juicy, sweet, ideal for making salads. The weight of one onion, on average, 110 g, but can, in some cases, reach up to 500 and even 800 g. It is recommended to cultivate onions in private and country plots. Planting is carried out both with the help of seeds, and seedlings.
Seedlings cultivation allows to obtainlarger bulbs, but requires more labor. The most optimal is to grow onions from the seeds, which are recommended to prepare in advance. To sow in the open ground onion Excibishen, the cultivation of which is proposed to master in this material, it follows, somewhere, in April, means that the sowing material can be slowly prepared in February-March. Since the size of the seeds is very small, and they should be sown no less than 5 cm, the most rational and convenient is to first fix them on paper strips.
This is done like this:First, the most common starch paste from a weakly flowing consistency is prepared, into which powdery fertilizers are added with a full complex of minerals and microelements, such as AVA. Mix the ready mixture into a container, from which it will be conveniently squeezed out by drop. It can be a plastic bottle with a hole and a tube in the lid or a conventional, preferably durable, plastic bag, with a small hole in the corner. It is convenient to take the stripes from a roll of toilet paper, cut into two or three pieces by a sharp knife. On the strip, every five centimeters, squeezed out drops of a mixture of paste with fertilizers and tweezers on them are laid onion seeds. You need to give the paste to dry, roll the stripes into rolls and leave it until the required time.
Sow onions Exclusive, cultivation of whichis a process that is not difficult and very grateful, it follows in loose, fertile, non-acidic soil, to a depth of 1.5 cm. To bulb is large, it is not recommended to tear the feather on the greens. Further cultivation of onions requires timely watering, weeding from weeds and, most importantly, loosening the soil. Seedlings will appear, approximately, in 10 days. From shoots to harvesting will take about 130 days, a month before this should completely stop watering. A signal to the fact that the onion is time to collect, there will be some thinning of the stem, yellowness and lodging of the leaves. It should not be delayed with harvesting, otherwise the onion growth will resume again and the bulbs will become unsuitable for storage.
If the cultivation of Excibisin onions is expectedin seedlings, the seeds should be planted in the box in March. The thickness of the fertile soil layer should be at least 10-15 cm. The seeds are sown to a depth of 1.5 cm rather densely, they are watered and the box is covered with a film or glass that can be removed after the shoots. Watering is moderate, it is also necessary to water the plants and before planting themselves into the open ground. Landing on the site is carried out in May, in prepared and fertilized soil. The seedlings should be carefully paired with the soil and, after cutting the spine 1/3 of the length, planted at a distance of 20-25 cm from each other. During the growing season, the plant does not require additional fertilizing, but only requires moderate watering and timely loosening of the soil.
