🧅 When to remove onion sets from the garden for storage 🌱 Harvesting onions
🧅 Harvesting #onions. We show when and in what condition we harvest #onion sets so as not to lose the bulbs in the ground. Our #DIY technologies for planting and growing onions for beginners step by step. We grow onions and conduct #experiments in the risky farming zone - in the cold and at the same time hot arid climate of the Rostov / Lugansk steppes.
📖 Contents:
00:00 Harvesting onion sets from the garden on July 14.
00:37 Despite the strong thickening, the bulbs formed well.
01:02 Digger - a homemade tool for harvesting onion sets.
01:08 Technology for harvesting sets.
02:15 Planting density of onion sets in a row.
03:08 When planting sets in rows, it is more convenient to sow, loosen and weed.
03:37 Another homemade tool - a scoop for harvesting onion sets.
04:01 We get rid of the soil quite thoroughly.
04:18 Taking into account the tops falling to one side, we will harvest gradually.
04:43 Practice has shown that the harvest time was chosen correctly.
05:01 It is worst to harvest sets if the tops have had time to dry out completely.
05:33 Here, under the onion sets, there is only 1 meter of a bed 120 cm wide.
05:49 Approximate volume of onion sets with tops.
06:02 It is not advisable to let the onion sets dry out completely before harvesting.
06:16 There are few onions with torn off tops - isolated cases.
06:39 You cannot pull such onions out of the ground harshly, otherwise they will remain in the ground.
07:00 In the distant past, you grew onion sets in bulk for sale.
07:58 The optimal planting density of onions depends on the size of the set you need.
08:21 When drying, substances from the green tops will still go into the bulbs.
09:03 In total, we collect 8 rows of onion sets, each row 1 meter long.
10:08 Densely planted seedlings cooled the soil in a hot climate.
10:28 We lay out the onion sets for preliminary storage and drying.
10:36 In our heat, you can't dry the bulbs in the garden during the day because of the risk of overheating the bulbs.
11:09 End of the film.
