Leeks are not a very common vegetable crop today, although they are a very tasty and healthy product. Mostly foreign leeks are sold on supermarket shelves, but in our areas they are still a rare guest. This is largely explained by the fact that gardeners believe that the crop is difficult to grow, that it is very difficult to grow it on your own plot, but in fact, all this is completely untrue.
Leeks are a biennial crop that does not form bulbs. The value of this product is in its stems that appear after sowing in the first year of life. In the second year of life, the onion grows a peduncle and produces seeds. Leeks have a long ripening period, approximately six to seven months. Therefore, it is better to grow this plant in seedlings.
Planting leeks for seedlings in 2017
If you look at the lunar planting calendar, you will see that it is recommended to plant leeks in the month of February. Successful days for planting will be 3.02, 04.02, 11.02, 12.02 and the period from 15.02 to 17.02. It is not recommended to plant from the seventh to the ninth of February and 22.02. You can grow seedlings at home in planting containers, or you can sow seeds directly into the ground. The first method is more optimal. It will be possible to harvest leeks in early September.
First you need to prepare the seeds. The first step is to disinfect them from various fungal diseases; to do this, place them in hot potassium permanganate for twenty minutes. After this, the seeds must be placed in cold water for half an hour to harden them. Next comes the process of seed germination. To do this, you need to soak them for five days in damp gauze and leave them in a warm place. After the sprouted part, use tweezers to carefully place the seed into the soil. Planting depth is approximately one and a half centimeters. Try to maintain a distance of two to two and a half centimeters between the seeds, then the crops will not grow too thick. To plant leek seeds, it is good to take a mixture of turf soil along with peat and humus. The container where you will plant the seeds should be filled with this mixture, lightly compacted and watered.
In ten days you can expect the first shoots. Before they appear, it is necessary to regularly moisten the soil. Boxes with seeds can be covered with film, but then they need to be ventilated a couple of times a day. For this crop, it is important not to allow either waterlogging or drying out. Be sure to ensure that the plantings have enough light. The optimal temperature for normal germination should be about 20°C. After the seedlings emerge at night, the temperature must be lowered to 15°C, otherwise the plants will grow upward very quickly, while remaining weak. After the emergence of seedlings on the tenth day, you can carry out the first fertilizing using liquid fertilizer. After another ten days, fertilizing should be repeated with the same fertilizer. In mid-April, leek seedlings can be transplanted into a greenhouse, and into the ground in early May, using a film cover for planting at first.
I think that everyone without exception plants onions in their gardens, because not a single dish can do without this vegetable; it is used everywhere, both in and as well as in main courses.
Today we will talk about different varieties of onions, for example, the distinctive feature of this type of exhibition onion is its large and beautiful appearance, and most importantly, its taste, quite pleasant and sweet.
What needs to be done to make the bulbs grow large and how to care for and grow this crop, we’ll talk about this further. What other varieties of onions do you know and what do you usually sow?
If you still have not sowed other vegetable crops such as, and or perhaps, then hurry up, there is little time left.
First, I suggest everyone answer this question. Knowing the answer to this, you can easily plant the seeds correctly in the ground, and the seedlings will definitely grow stronger and healthier. I remind you that you can create a Lunar calendar yourself, knowing the phases of the Moon, or you can already use a ready-made version, which you can view and download for free
Since onions are a plant whose fruits do not grow on the surface of the earth, but precisely inside the soil, this means that in order to determine the correct timing, we must remember one basic rule, as gardeners and gardeners remind you.
Important! That all the tops are planted on the waxing Moon, but with the roots it’s the other way around - on the waning Moon.
I suggest you consider the table regarding onions.
It is best, but again depending on what region you live in, to sow Exhibition onions in such months; for residents of the Moscow region this is the beginning or end of February, but for residents of Siberia and the Urals, the beginning or middle of March.
But for leeks for seedlings, if you live in the northern regions, sow them in April, and if in the southern regions, then in May.
Onion sets should be planted on the head on such days... In general, it’s difficult to say now, depending on what spring will be like. The main thing you must understand is that the earth must be well heated to a depth of 10 cm to 12 degrees Celsius. Therefore, it can be produced at the end of April for the Moscow region, and for Siberians and Urals it is the beginning of May. This information also applies to Chernushka’s onion.
Care and cultivation of onions from seeds to seedlings at home
Growing exhibition onions through seedlings
Let me start by saying that I want to show you the description and the packaging itself for this vegetable. Perhaps you are seeing this for the first time and do not believe that the heads can reach a weight of about 800 grams. This is indeed true if you know all the rules and take into account all the recommendations of gardeners and gardeners.
In fact, there are many ways to grow onions from seeds, and all these options have their place, let's look at the most common ones. And you can just choose the one that is convenient for you.
Seed disinfection
Carry out the disinfection procedure, to do this, dilute manganese, you need to take 1 liter of water for 1 g of the substance and add the achenes there, keep them in this solution for about 7-8 hours. The water should be approximately 40-45 degrees Celsius at least.
Preparing and germinating seeds
In order to avoid having to examine each seed for germination, I suggest germinating it immediately in order to see the first shoots. Place a paper napkin, fold it into two or three layers and moisten it well with water. Distribute the seedlings over the surface.
Cover the top with another napkin and also moisten with water. Leave it for a couple of days and maintain moisture, after 3-4 days you will see the first shoots. Take off the napkin and you will see everything for yourself.
As you can see, this plan should produce sprouts. The rest may still rise, wait a couple of days.
Preparing the soil mixture
Now the most important thing is to prepare the soil for seedlings; take either a store-bought soil mixture or make it yourself. Take rotted mullein (1 tbsp.), as well as humus (9 tbsp.) and turf soil (9 tbsp.). Or you can even make it from garden soil, plus sand and humus or sawdust.
Planting seeds in cups or other containers
It is the rich harvest that indicates that there were quite strong and healthy seedlings. To do this, you must correctly decide on the planting container; you can make it yourself, or you can buy special cups or pots at the gardening supermarket.
Place the sprouted achenes in cups, place one sprout in each pot to a depth of 1 cm. Cover with soil and moisten lightly with water.
Top dressing
Care and watering
A little time will pass and you will see small green shoots, they are very thin and delicate in fact. They are easy to gobble up, like twice two.
Therefore, when the greenery grows a little, make a support so that it does not fall, from ordinary sticks, which you can also make by hand or purchase.
Grow onions in a sunny place, water abundantly and fertilize periodically with mineral fertilizers.
I also want to offer you one landing option. There is a rather interesting method, in my opinion, called diaper or snail. Either polyethylene is used, or even a substrate that goes under parquet floors or laminate. The main advantage of this approach is space; very little of it is needed in the room.
You may have already heard about this, but if not, then watch this video and learn with the owner of the channel.
Hardening
Like any crop, Exhibition onions should be hardened, especially before transplanting into the ground. After about two months have passed, you will have to take it outside or ventilate the room often. And the soil mixture itself should also be fertilized with potassium nitrate in the proportion of 1 liter of water per 1 g.
Rules for planting onions in open ground
Well, as soon as everything is ready and it’s time to plant it in open ground, remember one important rule: plant onions where there will be a lot of light. And the soil must be free of manure, otherwise the plant will die or rot.
In the garden bed, you will need to make small holes about 20 cm apart from each other.
You can look in more detail in this story:
How to plant leek seedlings? Proper sowing of seeds and care in open ground
For most gardeners and gardeners, it has become a new fashion to grow a variety of this onion in their garden plot.
Leeks have quite an interesting taste and can be used in almost all types of dishes. Mostly the false stem is eaten.
Correct soil and container definition
For this crop, use soil made from exactly these components to grow seeds for seedlings. The proportions are 25 g of dolomite flour + 50 g of double superphosphate + 30 g of urea and plus 40 g of potassium sulfate.
Disinfection and germination of seeds
For this purpose, use a solution of potassium permanganate, but remember that the water must be warm. Keep in this liquid for 7-8 hours.
As with all seedlings, including spring onions, you will need to soak the seeds in a moist environment in advance. To do this, simply use a cloth moistened with water; after a while, sprouts will appear. The room temperature should be 20-25 degrees.
Sowing seedlings and care
The plant should be watered only with warm water, also feed with compost and water occasionally in proportions of 1:10. Or use special mineral fertilizers.
Be sure to harden off the crop once you are ready to transplant it into open ground, do this a week in advance.
Important! After transplanting into open ground, it is important that the soil is already sufficiently warmed up.
The landing is no different from the Exhibition bow. Plant them in furrows, with a distance of approximately 20 cm between rows.
Regularly weed and water the onions so that they will please you with a super harvest, fight weeds and pests.
How to sow nigella onions?
In principle, there is nothing special about how and when to plant this useful vegetable; the rules for planting and caring for this plant are the same as for other types of onions discussed in this article. Therefore, you can completely use all the recommendations in this article.
Nigella onions are mainly planted from germinated seeds immediately into open ground. That's why I brought you this video. In it you will learn all the tricks and subtleties of this matter, and also learn the secret of why you need to add salt to the furrows, this will help you achieve an excellent harvest of large and healthy bulbs.
Onion sets per head in open ground
Well, there is one more important point left, this is a species called sowing. Many people know him firsthand. As I already mentioned above, you must determine the specific planting date yourself, depending on what spring it will be like, as soon as the soil warms up at a depth of 6-10 cm to 12 degrees Celsius. Therefore, if you go by the weather, in early spring you should plant the seedlings at the end of April.
The main points in planting this type of onion are the following recommendations. Most importantly, you need to correctly mark the beds, which you can easily do with your own hands.
Disinfection
To begin with, it is recommended to dry the purchased seeds, but immediately before planting, soak them in a saline solution of 2 tablespoons of salt per 2 liters of water, and then disinfect them. To do this, place it in a warm solution of potassium permanganate for 30 minutes and rinse again. This is the kind of preparatory work that lies ahead; it is really not difficult.
Selecting a location
Now you need to decide on a landing site. As you know, onions are a rather light-loving plant, so they need to be planted in a sunny place and the ground should be open. The onion loves fairly loose and nutritious soil.
Therefore, the bed itself for digging needs to be equipped with ash and add 1 tbsp for each square meter of azoface.
Interesting! It will be a great solution if you place onions next to carrots, this is a great neighbor. In this way they will mutually protect against pests.
Since the correct placement of bulbs during planting increases the germination rate of the seedlings and improves the quality of the products, it is necessary to make the correct marking of the bed.
For this purpose, take a regular board 20 cm wide, the length should be approximately 80-100 cm, i.e. the width of your bed. And using a drill attachment, make through holes with a diameter of about 3 cm.
This way, uniform markings are obtained with the same distance between holes in a row of 10 cm and between rows of almost 20 cm. It is this row spacing that is very convenient to process with a flat cutter.
The depth of planting the seeds in the ground should be about 4 cm. And then cover the holes with earth using a rake.
Important! If you plant the seedlings much deeper, the first shoots will be delayed and the onion may probably develop a more retracted shape. And planting at a shallower depth can lead to the roots not having enough nutrients.
Finally, you need to use a watering can with a rain attachment to thoroughly moisten the soil. Onions have increased demands on watering, especially the first months after planting, that is, this is the period when they rapidly grow green leaves, and only then their heads begin to fill. During this period, especially monitor the soil moisture and do not allow it to dry out.
That's all for me, dear friends. Share your feedback and wishes. Come to my page more often. Smile, because spring is coming, and then summer. Bye everyone! See you later!
Sincerely, Ekaterina Mantsurova
Leeks have many valuable qualities, so we suggest you familiarize yourself with the timing of when to plant leeks for seedlings in 2017.
Nothing complicated
This onion is useful with an abundance of vitamins, minerals and even has medicinal properties. It is very tasty in salads and when added to first and second courses.
However, our gardeners are in no hurry to sow it in their beds. This is probably due to the incorrect assumption that growing these greens is very difficult and troublesome.
In fact, such onions grow in the same way as many vegetables.
, this is a biennial crop. Unlike its onion counterpart, it does not form bulbs. But all the value lies not in the bulb, but in the stem and feathers.
These stems grow already in the first year from sowing, and in the second year the plant throws out a peduncle with seeds and prepares for reproduction.
The stem of the onion is thick, much thicker than that of a regular onion, the feathers are long, strong, thick, and bluish in color.
To form such a stem and strong feathers, the plant has to mature for 6-7 months. Therefore, in our areas where there are very few warm days, it should be grown as seedlings.
What the calendar says
The best time for sowing is the month of February. In this case, the plant will have enough time to develop and produce a bountiful harvest.
The lunar calendar gives clear recommendations on when to sow leeks for seedlings in 2017. If you follow his advice, the best days for sowing will be the 3rd, 4th, 11th and 12th of February. If someone did not have time to plant the seeds these days, they can start sowing from February 15th to February 17th. Onions planted at this time will be healthy, strong and juicy.
But the days from 7 to 9.02.2017, on the contrary, are considered unsuccessful for landings. Perhaps even then the seeds will sprout, however, it is better to save your energy and time so as not to waste it on frail, diseased and unproductive plants.
Of course, like all other crops, leeks are very painful to sow during the new moon and full moon. These days the moon has a special energy that plants may simply not be able to cope with.
Sow leeks for seedlings!
Sowing leeks is done in the same way as sowing other seeds. After the soil has been purchased, a sunny location has been selected and planting containers have been prepared, the seeds should be prepared.
To begin with, it is recommended to keep the onion seeds in hot potassium permanganate for 20 minutes. This procedure will rid the plants of fungal diseases.
In order for young plants to withstand temperature changes well, they should be hardened off. To do this, potassium permanganate seeds are immersed in cold water.
And only after such manipulations can you begin germination. The seeds are placed in gauze, placed in a saucer with water and placed in a warm place. They should stay there for about five days.
At this time, you need to be especially careful - the water from the saucer can quickly evaporate, and the seeds should not be allowed to dry out, they will die. Therefore, you need to ensure that the gauze always remains wet.
As soon as the seeds hatch, they should be placed in the soil. This must be done carefully, because the sprouts are very delicate and can die from an awkward touch. It is better to plant seeds with tweezers or the tip of a knife.
The hole for the seed should be 1.5 cm deep, but the distance between plantings should be from 2.5 cm to 3 cm. The hole should be filled with soil and carefully pressed with your finger - you should not compact it too much.
After this, the crops should be watered with warm water.
Have you sown? We take care of the seedlings!
If the soil is constantly kept moist and the container with the plantings is in a warm place (at a temperature not lower than 26 degrees), the first sprouts will appear in a week or 10 days.
It should be remembered that leeks do not tolerate excess moisture, however, they also do not like drying out. He is also very demanding of light.
The culture loves warmth, however, seedlings should not be kept in too warm a room. If the atmosphere is too warm, the sprouts will stretch and weaken. The best temperature conditions are: during the day – 20 degrees, at night 15 degrees above zero.
On the 10th day after seedlings appear, it is worth feeding the plantings with liquid fertilizer and repeating watering with fertilizer after another 10 days.
Seedlings are transplanted into the greenhouse in mid-April, and into the beds after the threat of return frosts has passed.
Leeks are not a very common vegetable crop today, although they are a very tasty and healthy product. Mostly foreign leeks are sold on supermarket shelves, but in our areas they are still a rare guest. This is largely explained by the fact that gardeners believe that the crop is difficult to grow, that it is very difficult to grow it on your own plot, but in fact, all this is completely untrue.
Leek is a two-year crop that does not form bulbs. The value of this product is in its stems that appear after sowing in the first year of life. In the second year of life, the onion grows a peduncle and produces seeds. Leeks have a long ripening period, approximately six to seven months. Therefore, it is better to grow this plant in seedlings.
Planting leeks for seedlings in 2018
If you look at the planting, you will see that it is recommended to plant leeks in the month of February. Successful days for planting will be 3.02, 04.02, 11.02, 12.02 and the period from 15.02 to 17.02. It is not recommended to plant from the seventh to the ninth of February and 22.02. You can grow seedlings at home in planting containers, or you can sow seeds directly into the ground. The first method is more optimal. It will be possible to harvest leeks in early September.
First you need to prepare the seeds. The first step is to disinfect them from various fungal diseases; to do this, place them in hot potassium permanganate for twenty minutes. After this, the seeds must be placed in cold water for half an hour to harden them. Next comes the process of seed germination. To do this, you need to soak them for five days in damp gauze and leave them in a warm place. After the sprouted part, use tweezers to carefully place the seed into the soil. Planting depth is approximately one and a half centimeters. Try to maintain a distance of two to two and a half centimeters between the seeds, then the crops will not grow too thick. To plant leek seeds, it is good to take a mixture of turf soil along with peat and humus. The container where you will plant the seeds should be filled with this mixture, lightly compacted and watered.
In ten days you can expect the first shoots. Before they appear, it is necessary to regularly moisten the soil. Boxes with seeds can be covered with film, but then they need to be ventilated a couple of times a day. For this crop, it is important not to allow either waterlogging or drying out. Be sure to ensure that the plantings have enough light. The optimal temperature for normal germination should be about 20°C. After the seedlings emerge at night, the temperature must be lowered to 15°C, otherwise the plants will grow upward very quickly, while remaining weak. After the emergence of seedlings on the tenth day, you can carry out the first fertilizing using liquid fertilizer. After another ten days, fertilizing should be repeated with the same fertilizer. In mid-April, leek seedlings can be transplanted into a greenhouse, and into the ground in early May, using a film cover for planting at first.
