Onion Gawran Vegetable Seeds

Purchase Description

• Onion Gawran Vegetable Seeds
• Quantity : Around 35 seeds

Description

Onions are a wonderful staple crop in our household, and we like to store some of our onion bulbs for 6-8 months over the winter. We eat a lot of them, and we usually plant over 200 onions each year. If you follow a few simple steps, you can harvest a large amount of high-quality onions from a small garden.

Onions are such a versatile vegetable – they feature in so many recipes, so growing your own onions means you’ll always have them to hand. They are easy to grow from baby onions called sets. Although seed is available, sets are the easiest and quickest way to grow onions. Sets are also are better in colder regions, and are less likely to be attacked by some pests and diseases.

Common name(s): bulb onion or common onion,Allium cepa (Botanical Name)

Flower colours: White

Bloom time: Year round

Max reacahble height: 2.5 to 6 feet.

Difficulty to grow:: Easy

Planting and care

• Select a location with full sun where your onions won’t be shaded by other plants.
• Soil needs to be well-drained, loose, and rich in nitrogen; compact soil affects bulb development.
• Till in aged manure or fertilizer the fall before planting. Onions are heavy feeders and need constant nourishment to produce big bulbs.
• At planting time, you can mix in some nitogen fertilizer, too, and side dress every few weeks until the bulbing process begins. Seeding?
• Onion seeds are short-lived. If planting seeds indoors, start with fresh seeds each year. Start seeds indoors about 6 weeks before transplanting.
• Plant onions as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring, usually late March or April. Make sure temperature doesn’t go below 20 degrees F.
• For sets or transplants, plant the smaller sets 1 inch deep, with 4 to 5 inches between each plant and in rows 12 to 18 inches apart. Think of onions as a leaf crop, not a root crop. When planting onion sets, don’t bury them more than one inch under the soil; if more than the bottom third of the bulb is underground, bulb growth can be restricted.

Sunlight: Select a location with full sun where your onions wont be shaded by other plants.

Soil: Soil needs to be well-drained, loose, and rich in nitrogen; compact soil affects bulb development.

Water: Generally, onions do not need consistent watering if mulch is used. About one inch of water per week (including rain water) is sufficient. If you want sweeter onions, water more.

Temperature: 20 degrees F

Fertilizer: Give an occasional feed with a general liquid fertiliser. A light feed of sulphate of potash in June will help ripen the bulbs ready for storage.