When to remove nigella from the garden for storage
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Novice summer residents do not yet know that planting material Luke the required variety can be cultivated in your summer cottage. A favorable and non-capricious representative of a vegetable culture does not ask for constant supervision and all your energy. It is cultivated both as a biennial plant and as an annual plant. Using the existing simple care procedures. It is possible to cultivate both seedlings for planting and a whole crop by the end of the summer season in one season.
How to plant a given herbaceous plant correctly?
The process of cultivation of this vegetable crop from planting material in one season is gaining more and more popularity. This is a fast and inexpensive method. Variety "Strigunovsky", which differs in shape in the form of a circle and yellowish color of the scales, depending on the method of cultivation from the planting material can be used to obtain a whole crop of this herbaceous, and also for the cultivation of seedlings.
Many varieties of this annual vegetable crop are known:
With a spike:
- "Hallcedony".
- "Lighthouse".
- "The globe".
- "Lugansky".
Moderately sharp:
- "Rosa de Ferenze".
- "Ammfora".
Sweet salads:
- "Russian size".
- "Exibition".
It is possible to obtain planting material for planting with your own hands, planting parent planting material in your summer cottage.
Preparing the ridge
Ridges for planting this representative of vegetable crops in the fresh air should be prepared from the autumn season. Dig up the soil, thoroughly removing the weed root system. If this is not done, then in the spring season the weeds will drown out the thin twigs. Watering the ridges at the beginning of the growing season is quite problematic, because together with the weeds, it is possible to remove even half of the seedlings.
This vegetable crop prefers loose rich soil, which means that in the process of digging it is required to place humus or peat in the soil in the proportions of half a bucket per one square meter. It is forbidden to use fresh mullein instead of humus, because young branches will get wounds, they will hurt and die instantly. On compacted, difficult soils, it is recommended to add sand.
On the territory prepared in advance, it is worth placing special ribbons on the beds. The optimal width is one meter. Thoroughly level the ground with a rake, removing clods. Dig shallow planting holes with paths between rows of at least twenty centimeters. In order for a sharp representative of a vegetable culture to delight you with a large number of fruits, it is necessary to cultivate it, following all the rules.
Landing
Onions are sown at the beginning of the spring season, when there is still enough moisture in the ground. The planting material manages to ascend and begin to grow before the onset of the dry month. It is recommended to start planting in the last winter month or in the first spring month, so that the upper part of this representative of the vegetable crop has time to form. The bulb cultivated in an annual plant from the planting material reaches a mass of approximately eighty - one hundred twenty grams.
Immediately before planting, it is possible to mix this vegetable crop with crushed chalk, this method simplifies the procedure and reduces seed consumption. To simplify agricultural techniques for herbaceous, it is necessary every ten to fifteen centimeters to lower the planting material into the planting hole, for example, radishes or salad greens. They will hatch much faster than onions and enclose the area of the beds.
After planting, the planting pits are filled with a small amount of moistened earth (one and a half to two centimeters), made denser and a layer of mulch is made. The problem with determining the time of planting onions, summer residents eliminate in different ways. Most of them successfully use the planting for the winter season. The planting material has a high level of frost resistance, and with the arrival of the first warm days, everything begins to grow together.
Cultivation of this herbaceous
The cultivation of this vegetable crop from seedlings during the summer season without seedlings is not a difficult process. The correct selection of annual varieties specially designed for certain areas and correct care allows you to get a large amount of tasty onion harvest by the fall season.
The peculiarity of cultivation is that in planting before the winter season or at the beginning of the spring season and using the method using seedlings in colder regions.
In order for an annual vegetable crop to be well kept, it is required to get it out of the ground exclusively after lodging and yellowing of the feather, checking that the neck of the vegetable crop is completely dry. After assembly, it is worthwhile to thoroughly dry the vegetable in the sun.
Cultivation of annual varieties of this herbaceous
Newbie summer residents do not always succeed in cultivating an excellent harvest of this vegetable crop from nigella in one season. The main oversight is the wrong selection of the variety. Only annual varieties and breeding varieties are suitable, for example, "Luhansk", "Karatalsky", "Daytona F1", "Siberian one-year" and "Albion F1".
Using special care, it is possible to get a full head of a given vegetable crop from the seeds in just one season, which is much more economical than cultivating a vegetable in a two-year variety. Annual varieties are not only suitable for autumn and summer consumption, because they are well kept during the winter season. When the nigella is collected from the ridge, it is carefully examined so that the neck of the herbaceous is completely dry. Exclusively with this option, it is possible to consider a vegetable suitable for keeping for the winter season.
Seedling material of this herbaceous
In colder regions, nigella does not have time to complete all stages of development in a short summer season. Even popular annual varieties sometimes show excellent maturation in negative realities. In this variant, seedlings are used for cultivation.
It is possible to plant planting material from the second week of the last winter month. Barrels twelve centimeters high are filled with a mixture of turf soil and humus, or a ready-made mixture for seedlings is used.
Immediately before disembarking, the containers with the mixture are processed. It is possible to moisten them with hot water from a watering can or take them to the cold for two to three days. Even if you did the harvesting of the planting material of this vegetable crop yourself, you need to disinfect them in an infusion of ash and potassium permanganate. After processing, the planting material can be placed in a warm liquid until sprouting or immediately planted in moist soil.
A seedless cultivation method for this herbaceous
If you have an idea of how to correctly cultivate a given vegetable crop, then it is possible for four months (the growing season of annual varieties) to cultivate a whole crop. Outdoor planting is required during the last winter month or during the first spring season. An even more effective and simpler method is landing for the winter season.
The ridges are prepared in the second autumn month, planting holes are made and wait for the first cold weather. Nigella planting material is planted in frozen soil and covered with soil or humus. The growing season begins at the end of the first spring month. In moist soil, the vegetable will reward you with accelerated and joint emergence. Agricultural technology consists in constant weeding, thinning and moistening of herbaceous plants. If you leave the thickening of the plantings, then it is possible to have a small set instead of a full head.
Obtaining planting material from our own herbaceous
It is possible to cultivate high-quality planting material with your own hands. To do this, in the spring season, they choose large, pretty bulbs of the variety you have chosen, disinfect them with an infusion of permanganate potassium and leave them in warm liquid for twenty-four hours. Then they are placed on germination at a temperature of plus ten to fifteen degrees.
The parent planting material is planted on the ridge identically to a bow on a feather, only the space between the heads should be at least fifteen centimeters. The neck of the bulb is placed above the first layer of soil. The bulb forms a strong stem, on the upper part of which a large cap is formed with capsules for planting material. By the end of the summer season, the planting material matures, and the film on the boxes begins to crack.
In order to prevent the planting material from spilling onto the soil, it is required to cut the stem with the heads and put them for maturation in an unsaturated room that is regularly ventilated. When the heads are dry, they must be rubbed well with gloves to remove the spoiled planting material. Keep nigella in a cold room, no light and not humid.
Agricultural technology for parent planting material consists in the necessary moisture and protection from various parasites and diseases. In preventive measures, it is worth choosing varieties with a high level of disease resistance, and not yet cultivating the vegetable for more than two years in a single area. It is required to plant carrots, dill and marigolds near the vegetable, which, with their aroma, drive away parasites, for example, an onion fly.
What time to collect from the ridge?
Harvesting begins in the second week of the last summer month or at the end of it. The sign of the beginning of the collection is lodging and yellowing of the tops. Immediately before collection, it is required to confirm that the herbaceous neck is dry normally. It is recommended to arrange a collection on a day without clouds and precipitation, so that it is possible to dry the planting material in the sun.