How to grow quarantine leek from seeds

Growing onions in a personal plot is very popular in many countries. Domestic gardeners who grow this useful vitamin vegetable are no exception. If you do not have knowledge of the cultivation and propagation of this crop, then the yield will be very low or not at all. Many gardeners choose quarantine leek for growing leeks.This variety is a late ripening species, due to which the growing season of leeks lasts about six months.

Leek quarantine

Variety description

Variety well-tolerated IT frost and is suitable for the central and northern regions of Russia. It has a fragrant taste and retains vitamins in itself until late autumn. Growing onions from seeds is a simple matter and even a beginner gardener will cope with this. If you follow all the rules of care, then you can harvest a generous crop from one hundredth of the earth, which will weigh about 400 kg.

This variety is the owner of high taste. Due to the very delicate feathers, mouth-watering aroma and light pungency, they try to add it to all vegetable salads. During heat treatment, bitterness is replaced by a sweetish taste.Quarantine onions are often used for dietary dishes or as an independent product, due to its rich vitamin composition and almost complete absence of calories.

Growing Methods

There are two ways to grow Luke. In order for the onions to take root in your garden and the vegetable gives a good harvest, you need to adhere to certain rules. For leek cultivation, one of two methods is chosen: sowing seeds in open ground or planting seedlings already planted.

Sowing seeds in open ground

Gardeners living closer to the south or in the very south of the country, they prefer to grow onions by planting seeds in the open air. This is due to a warmer, more favorable climate and early spring.

For the average climate, where in the spring there are often frosts on the surface of the soil and windy weather, it will be more practical to plant seedlings already grown indoors in open ground.

Before sowing the seeds, they must first be filled with water, those that emerge must be removed. Surfaced seeds will not germinate. And those that went to the bottom should be soaked in water slightly above room temperature, but not more than 50 degrees. Next, the seeds are left to swell for 72 hours. This is necessary to activate seed germination. All seeds have a shelf life of not more than three years. After this period, the seeds dry out excessively and lose their qualities necessary for germination.

Sowing seeds for seedlings

Growing quarantine leek from onion seeds has certain rules. It is necessary to sow seeds in prepared boxes for seedlings. The soil must be nutritious and moist. Landing is carried out approximately to a depth of 2 centimeters. After the seeds are sown, they need to create the conditions of a greenhouse with a certain microclimate. To do this, the boxes need to be covered with plastic wrap on top. Mini greenhouses need to be installed in a dark and warm place. Before the first green shoots begin to appear, open the polyethylene daily for ventilation.

The most suitable time for sowing seeds is the last days of February, the first days of March, while taking into account the weather conditions in your region .

It’s not so hard to get a good harvest

After about 10-12 days, the first shoots will be visible. This suggests that it is time to remove the film, the boxes with seedlings are placed on the windowsill, located on the sunny side. In order not to destroy small seedlings with weak roots, it is worth protecting seedlings from drafts and hypothermia. Seedlings are watered and sprayed with warm water. To grow strong and well-developed seedlings, you should dive. This process is mandatory and important. It is very easy to determine the time for a leek dive.As soon as the thickness of the stem of the sprout has reached 6-7 mm and about four feathers have appeared, you can safely get to work. Before diving, to avoid damage to the roots, water should be watered.

To extract the tender roots of the seedling from the ground, you can use a toothpick or something similar. Having picked up the device for extracting seedlings, we transplant them into an additional pot. Do not forget about the quarantine onion fertilizer, which is carried out twice a season. When choosing a place for planting leeks, you need to remember that this variety is a very sun-loving plant, so it should grow in the most lighted areas. And also it is not recommended to plant onions in places where garlic, carrots, cucumbers and other onions were grown before. But after cabbage, tomatoes, green peas, beans, he will be comfortable growing.

About 90 days after sowing seeds in the ground, seedlings can be planted in open ground. This is about the beginning of summer. It is worth paying attention to the weather. If the night air temperature is still fundamentally different from the daytime air temperature, then the planted seedlings need to be covered with plastic wrap until the temperature regime stabilizes. Immediately before planting, the soil for planting seedlings needs to be dug up and fertilized. In order for the bush to be large and correctly formed, the distance between the rows should not be less than 25 cm. Pits for seedlings are made about 15 cm deep.The bottom of the hole is covered with wood ash or fertilizers.

Care recommendations

In order to achieve a large and high-quality crop of quarantine onions, you must adhere to all requirements for the care of the plant. After the onion has been transplanted to a permanent place in the open soil, the hilling should be carried out about three times throughout the season. This helps to get a larger and white stem from the plant. You also need to provide nutrition to the plant. To provide a comprehensive nutrition for onions, you need to pour in equal amounts for each seedling:

• Overcooked and dry manure
• Straw mulch
• Lightly dried grass

The rest of the time you need to regularly loosen the soil, remove weeds and water. Leek loves plentiful watering, but does not tolerate stagnation of water in the soil. It is preferable to water in the morning and in the evening, when the sun’s rays are not so scorching. This is done so that the water that will be on the feathers of the onions, during the scorching sun, does not burn them, as this will affect the development of the entire bush. The last bushes need to be collected in November, before frosts come. In some cases, quarantine onions are left in the ground for wintering, while taking care that it does not freeze in severe frosts.To do this, prepare the following composition:

• Mulch from rotted manure
• Sawdust material
• Dry grass or peat

In the spring, when there is already a thaw, the mulch is pushed to the side and the bulbs are watered. Onions that winter in the open are suitable only for seeds. A two-year bush from an annual bush is very different. Its feathers are larger in volume and become stiff. Such onions are not suitable for salad. The arrows, on which the seeds will be in the future, begin to appear by mid-summer. They can not break off before the due time. The seed box should fully mature and form.

Possible illnesses

If proper care is provided to the onion, it will develop well and delight the gardener with its high-quality crop. But do not forget about parasites that slow down plant growth. start pest control, then the plant may simply die.Inadequate watering, as well as waterlogging leads to fungal diseases.

• Most often, onions to Arantan suffers from an onion fly. Adults gnaw through green feathers and lay larvae, which in turn feed on a white onion. After this, the plant dies. Bushes that suffered from the onion fly are destroyed, and the ground where the bush was located is treated with a decoction of tobacco This is done so that the infection does not affect neighboring bushes. You can also plant a bed of carrots in the neighborhood. Onion flies and larvae do not tolerate its smell.
• There is also a disease such as a viral mosaic. Such a virus can be distinguished by tiny dots and white striped sections. If measures are not taken in time, the feathers of the onion are deformed into an accordion, growth stops and over time the plant simply dies.If the disease has reached inflorescences on a bush that has been left for seeds, it must be destroyed. Since the virus has already managed to infect planting material.
• You should also be afraid of such a fungal disease as cervical rot. This fungus kills the sowing of leek and garlic. It is very difficult to detect this type of disease. For this reason, mostly diseased and healthy seeds are stored together in one container. You can determine the disease after you can no longer save it. This can be seen by the decay of the bulb itself, after which the whole bush becomes like mucus. To prevent the disease in the future, before the seeds are planted in the soil, it is necessary to disinfect the seeds with fungicides.