Mineral fertilizers for onions

How nice, and most importantly - useful, to have fresh onions on your table. Many people adore this plant for its vitamins and health benefits. It is rare to find a garden plot that does not have onions. Gardeners love this plant for its taste and easy care. To provide yourself with a good harvest of onions, you need to regularly feed them - add mineral fertilizers for the onions. This will ensure rapid growth, protect the plant from pests and diseases.

What mineral fertilizers do onions need?

When feeding onions with mineral fertilizers, keep in mind that they do not fully assimilate the applied fertilizers. Thus, nitrogen is assimilated by 100%, phosphorus by 20% -30%, and potassium by 40% -50%.

In addition, it is important to understand that onions can consume phosphorus throughout the entire ripening period, nitrogen - mainly during the 1st growing season, and potassium - during the 2nd period.

Phosphorus and potassium supplements accelerate onion ripening. Thanks to him, the onion becomes very large and is stored for a long time. Best of all, such mineral fertilizers for onions are effective on warm and sunny days.

Mineral fertilizers for onions: feeding scheme

Mineral fertilizers for onions: video

• First feeding is done with the aim of forming a lush green mass (nitrogen fertilization). If the feathers of your onion are growing rapidly and have a bright green color, then this top dressing can be skipped, because the earth is already fertile enough. After about 13-14 days, you can use the following top dressing: superphosphate (40 grams) + 20 g potassium chloride (20 grams) + nitrate (30 grams) + 10 liters of water. Pour onions with this mineral fertilizer.

You can also use this recipe: 1 tbsp. l. urea + 2 tbsp. l. spoons of the preparation "Vegeta" + 10 liters of water. Water the garden with onions with the resulting solution. 5 sq. m of land, approximately 1 bucket of fertilizer is consumed.

• A second time potash-phosphorus fertilizers are used. They contribute to the active development and growth of the bulbs.

This mineral dressing for onions must be done one month after planting. You can use this recipe: take superphosphate (60 grams), saltpeter and sodium chloride (30 grams each), dissolve all this in a bucket of water.

Also, instead of this fertilizer, you can use the drug "Agricol-2". Before preparing top dressing, you must dissolve 1 glass of the drug in a ten-liter bucket of water. As for the expense, then for two square meters. m. of land should be poured about 10 liters.

• Third feeding aims to enhance the growth of bulbs, like the second. Fertilizers with a predominance of phosphorus are also used here.
• The last feeding can be done with the use of the drug "Effekton-O" in combination with superphosphate. For 10 liters of water, take 2 tablespoons of the drug and 1 tablespoon of superphosphate.

Rules for the use of agrochemicals

• In no case should you prepare liquid mineral fertilizers in dishes from which people, animals, birds eat.
• It is forbidden to increase the dose of drugs, which is written by the manufacturer on the packaging.
• Avoid spilling fertilizer on the green part of the onion. If this does happen, rinse the onion feathers thoroughly with water from a watering can or hose.
• Before applying agrochemicals to the soil, it is imperative to moisten it.
• If the onion does not have enough phosphorus, potassium or nitrogen, then fertilizers must be applied directly with it. Otherwise, the rest of the subcortex components will not work.
• If your site has sandy soil, then the amount of fertilizer should be increased and the concentration of the solution should be reduced.
• If you have clay soils, it is best to slightly increase the dose.
• If you wanted to add organic matter and agrochemicals together, then the amount of the latter must be reduced by 1/3.

Fertilizers for onions: how to feed?

Feeding onions with mineral fertilizers, like any other plants, is necessary taking into account climatic conditions and time of day. It is best to fertilize this vegetable in the late afternoon or early morning, when the weather is calm and calm. You cannot feed and water onions in sunny weather. If it rains, then mineral fertilizers for onions can simply be scattered on the ground in a dry form, and slightly bury, under the influence of water they will dissolve.