Every mistress knows that in the kitchen can not do without onions: soups, goulash, salads. Everyone since childhood knows how useful this vegetable is. Onions contain a lot of vitamins, useful for people with heart disease, diabetes, helps reduce cholesterol.
The summer is ending, the onion harvesting begins before storage for the winter, and the gardeners are wondering how to preserve this wonderful vegetable. Let's start with the most important thing.
About how to properly and when to remove the onion from the garden for storage, tell our article.
Variety selection
How to store onions? What varieties of onions are suitable for storage? Now breeders around the world are working on new types of onion, so it is very difficult to describe all varieties. Consider the varieties that earned the trust of the gardeners of our country:
- Stuttgarter rizen - variety bred by breeders from Germany, has become popular around the world. The variety is early ripe, the bulb is rather large, weighing up to 150 g. It is valued for its high yield and long storage. Stuttgart unpretentious, not afraid of downy powdery mildew.
- Centurion and Sturon - these varieties, which are the selection of Stuttgarter, are also well and long stored. Sturon is a round bulb, but Centurion has a more elongated shape. Both species are also valued for a thinner neck, which dries faster, preventing the entry of pathogens of various diseases.
- Orion - this is the kind, the result of the work of the English breeders. The fruit is large, the weight of one root crop reaches 200 g. The variety matures quite early, which is quite important for the inhabitants of Siberia. Here, Orion is preferred even by the previous one.
Bastion - A variety that belongs to mid-season, it is grown in almost all parts of our country, with the exception of the southern regions. The bulb has a flat-round shape. The scales of this species are dry and very dense, which is important for storage.- Yalta bow - This is a kind of sweet, very popular in the Crimea. How to keep it properly and for a long time is known only to the inhabitants of the peninsula. Onions are valued for their taste.
- Arzamas local - This is the species presented by breeders of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In the nests grows two - three bulbs. The taste of this root is sharp. The fruits are small, rounded. It has good resistance to pests. It is stored perfectly.
- Bessonovsky local - For a long time already known type of a sharp onion. Bulbs grows in a group - 4 - 5 in a nest, weighing 50 g each. The scales that covered the bulb, juicy, have a yellow and white color. This onion contains a lot of dry matter, and this is a significant factor during prolonged storage.
- Red baron - This is a representative of red onions. The variety ripens early, you can get a good harvest. Fruits are small, only 60 - 80 g, but rather dense. The species is valued for its high vitamin C content. Of the red varieties, Red Baron is recognized as the best for winter storage.
- Alvina - young variety, designed by Russian breeders. The roots are flat, have the original purple color, mid-season, the weight of one bulb 80 - 90 g
- Albion - This is also an interesting variety, but these bulbs are already white and weigh up to 130 g each. Type of medium. Average keeping quality, taste semi-sharp.
- Hercules F1 - It is also a variety of medium, root round. The advantage of this species is that it tolerates drought perfectly, due to its powerful root system.
Bastion - A variety that belongs to mid-season, it is grown in almost all parts of our country, with the exception of the southern regions. The bulb has a flat-round shape. The scales of this species are dry and very dense, which is important for storage.On how to choose onions for long-term storage, you can learn from the video:
Fundamental rules
What are the storage conditions for onions? How to prepare storage bow:
- all storage slugs must be strong and healthy;
- bow is necessary to dry. You can do this right on the garden, in bad weather under a canopy. Braid the bow in braids and dry in limbo. For apartments there is a method of drying onions in the oven, the temperature should not be high, you can easily overdry;
- remove faded greens, leaving 4 - 6 cm, the roots must also be cut;
- clean slightly root crop from the upper cracked scales;
- preferably still dry at least two weeksconstantly moving it.
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Read also our article about the methods and conditions of storage of onion seedlings until spring planting.
What to store onion:
- small wooden boxes;
- baskets;
- ordinary bags of fabric, but onions in plastic bags can not be stored. Due to the lack of air, the bulbs simply start to rot;
- now there are special vegetable nets for sale;
- the way our grandmothers are stockings;
- You can store the bow, braided in braids, this method can be applied in the form of jewelry.
Where to store onion? The most common is, of course, storing onions in a cellar (basement) and storing onions at home (apartments). The main condition is a dark, dry room.
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Modes and terms of savings
At what temperature to store onions? What are the storage conditions for onion in storage? Onion storage temperature:
- for sweet species and peninsula suitable temperature is from 0 to -1, and for sharp recommend a temperature slightly lower from -1 to -3, and 75 - 90% air humidity;
- if stored in the apartment then from +18 to +22. 50 - 70% humidity.
What is the shelf life of onions?
Rot protection
What to do so that the onions do not rot during storage? This problem is faced by most housewives. It is not enough to collect and save the bow. I want to harvest as little as possible spoiled. For this there are some tips:
- can use armored meshwhich perfectly passes air and the turnip remains dry;
- sprinkle onions with huskit will protect the onions from drying out;
- in the basement to reduce humidity, you can put capacity with lime or ash. Remember, if the humidity is very low, then the onions will begin to dry, and when increased, they will germinate or mold;
- do not use large capacity, better in several small;
- don't forget on time clean rotten bulbs, so as not to infect others;
- Handle sev before planting manganese solution;
- not a small role is played by the place where the onion grew. Better to plant a bow after cabbage or cucumber. Pour the infusion of garlic and tobacco, ash, tobacco dust;
- onion is better dig upto avoid damage;
- weak bulbs that have thick neck, cannot be used for winter storage;
- follow the rules of preparation of turnips for winter storage.
If the root began to rot, then most likely the temperature did not correspond to the norm. Onions average air temperature.
Remember - it is necessary choose varieties for storageIf you planted a variety of salad onions and decided to save it, remember that it is not stored for a long time and may start to rot.
Rotten bulbs can not be saved, the best way to keep healthy is of course constant sorting.
How to save onions if you started to rot? How to save the bow from rotting, you will learn by watching this video:
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Ways
How to keep onions until spring? There is an interesting way of storage, it is called combined, it lies in the fact that in the fall the onions are stored at a temperature of from +18 to +22, in winter they cool rapidly to -3, and in the spring they set the same temperature as in the fall. For those who have no place or do not want to store onions, there are good storage methods - freezing onions and drying onions.
How to keep peeled onions? Sometimes you have to save peeled (without husk) onion. A feature of such storage is that the bulbs, if stored incorrectly quickly fade. To save the bow, you can do the following:
- rinse and place the onions in a bowl with cold water, put in the fridge, change the water every 2 days;
- can be used package. Fold there the bow, pour a little water, tie it up and put it in the cold; water, as in the first case, needs to be changed;
- if the onions are cleaned more than necessary, just wrap cling film and put in the fridge. You can store 3 - 5 days.
Freezing onions in the freezer and drying in the winter for later use in the kitchen are also good ways to save.
If you follow all the rules, then store onions is not so difficult, and your bow will be on your table almost until the new harvest.
