Onion - a plant extremely unpretentious and resistant. Growing it is not as difficult as keeping it for planting next year.
The process of storage causes both beginners and experienced gardeners a lot of questions: how to store onion sets, where and in what, at what temperature and humidity.
Knowing the answers to these questions guarantees successful preservation harvest until next season.
In our articles we have already talked about the time when the harvest of onions and leeks are harvested and how they are stored in cellars and cellars. In particular, talked about how to store leeks and green onions. But not all of these methods are suitable for seed onions.
Training
Preparation for storage includes several steps. First, cleaning onions before storage for the winter. Harvesting Sevka in late August.
After harvesting his onions sorted and sorted. For storage for the winter are selected whole, without rot, healthy specimens. The slightest rotting of one head will result in damage to the entire batch of onions.
Secondly, sevok should be thoroughly dried. Drying onions in the open sun gives the perfect result. In addition, sevok dried under a canopy and in a room with excellent ventilation. To dry sevok, need light and air, then its husks will be rustling and dry.
An experienced gardener will share with you his tips on storing a sevka in this video:
Ways and places
How to keep sevka onions until spring? Onions sevok stored in boxes, nets, containers, bags, trays and bulk.
Boxes, containers, bags and trays for storing the seam must have lattice structure, slots, holes.
Bags are stored exclusively in the clear. Nets with onions are used for storage in limbo.
Storage in bulk implies placement 15-20 cm thick layer on the shelves in the cellar or attic. The main condition for the successful storage of onions - a constant flow of air.
Warm
This method involves storing onions at home (flat). He helps those gardeners who do not have their own cellar.
According to the method - onions are stored in boxes (containers, bags) at home in a dark, cool place.
Humidity should not be high, otherwise onions will start to rot. It is not necessary to organize a storage place for sevka near a water source.
Cold
Onion storage in the cellar (basement) called the cold way. It greatly increases the chances of keeping onions throughout the winter. After preparation and drying, onions are placed in a cellar in any convenient container and stored there until planting.
Sometimes onion sets put right under the winter. Its resistance to cold allows you to break through and ascend with the onset of the first spring heat. If the winter is snowy, the chances of success of such a method of storing onion seedlings in the ground increase several times.
This option is good because the onions do not need to keep the whole winter in any room. He lands in the ground and there experiencing cold. This kind of freezing of onions is an effective way of storage.
How to plant sevok for the winter, you will learn by watching the video:
Another cold option - burying a bow under the ground before the onset of winter. The technology is simple: onions are placed in a bucket, the bottom of which is pre-filled with an abundant layer of sawdust.
The bucket must not be filled to the brim so that the bow not "choked".
Top cover the crop with the same layer of sawdust.
Then they put a lid on the bucket and bury it under the ground to such a depth that the earth would close the lid of the bucket approximately 15-18 centimeters.
Before planting sevok get fresh and juicy.
At home, sevok in a cold way to save is unlikely.
Regardless of the choice of storage method, the main thing is that in the space in which the bow is located, there was no stagnant air and high humidity. These two factors create ideal conditions for the onset of decay.
Read our article on how to store onions in storage and at home, as well as interesting and useful information on how to freeze onions for the winter and its drying for cooking.
Temperature and time savings
With cold the optimal storage temperature is minus 3 ° C. With warm - from + 17 to + 24 ° С with relative air humidity of 65-72%.
With proper compliance with all recommendations, the shelf life can be from the moment of collection to the time of landing, with a cycle of one winter.
How to keep onion seedlings until spring? To learn how to calibrate and save the set, you can find out from the video:
Emergency care at the initial stage of rotting
To prevent disease and rotting Onions simply follow all the recommendations: proper preparation, temperature, humidity, fresh air circulation, suitable packaging and storage.
What to do if the onion still began to rot? Is the crop lost, and all the efforts went down the drain? Of course, there is a way out of this situation.
Partially rotted or diseased onions can try to save. To do this, remove the husk layer at the site of infection. You can try the onion "undress" completely. In the process of maturation, it will again be covered with a healthy husk and will be suitable for further planting.
Thus, the storage of sevka is a whole science. Only compliance with all terms and conditions guarantees successful preservation crop and protect it from damage.
Onion - a unique plant, such unpretentious in growth and care, and so tender when stored.
He, like all living things, needs protection and care. However, with proper handling, storage and planting onions will give a new cropthat will delight its abundance.
