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Onion-Batun - grow and eat

Onion-batoon is an ancient culture cultivated for more than three thousand years in such countries as China, Japan, and Korea. In these regions it is still possible to meet this plant in a wild form. Cultivated onion is found in many countries of Europe, in the USA, and also almost everywhere in Russia.

Especially this plant is loved in Siberia, where weather conditions have to periodic frosts, which this agricultural culture perfectly tolerates. But otherwise the onion-baton is not so unpretentious. He loves moist, fertile soils, on which there will be no crops other than this plant. For timely weeding and fertilization, the plant will thank its masters early maturing (it releases an arrow a month earlier than the onion) and good harvests (up to three per season in favorable weather).

From the onion variety this culture is characterized by thicker leaves and a small oblong bulb with red-brown or yellowish scales. The plant is perennial, intensively grows after the first cut. As the development of onion-baton grows annually through the shoots, turning into a kind of bush. Starting from the second year, the culture blooms with spherical inflorescences. After the fourth year of planting, the plant needs to be renewed by sowing seeds.

Agrotechnics onion of this kind is quite simple. In the ground dug in autumn, 1-2 buckets of compost are put in 1 meter. In the spring, 200 grams of ash and 30 grams of urea are applied to the same area. The plant can be multiplied by dividing the existing "bush" or sowing seeds in a greenhouse or soil. Division of a bush is made in the summer, after flowering, counting on a crop in a following season. Plants are placed 25 cm apart from each other with a distance between rows of 0.4 meters.

Seeds in the greenhouse are planted in March. In the same period, under favorable external conditions, it is possible to plant seeds in the open ground, where they are more likely to yield the crop in the same year. The next period of sowing of onion-batoon is June-July, but in this case the harvest will only be in the next year. The seed consumption is up to 1.5 grams per 1 m. Sowing is lower-case, with a distance of 25 cm between the rows. Before sowing, the soil is fertilized with the following combination of fertilizers: manure (20 kg per 10 meters), nitrate (lime-ammonium or ammonium, 300-500 gr.), Potassium salt (40%, 300-400 gr.), Superphosphate (400-600 Gr.). After sowing the soil must be mulched.

Care of the culture consists of weeding, watering, loosening and feeding (after the emergence of the sprouting is introduced 10 g of potassium and nitrogen fertilizers per 1 m). For the winter the site is cleaned of dry leaves and arrows, the distance between the rows loosen.

Onions, the cultivation of which is not difficult for an experienced agriculturist, has a number of valuable properties. It has an exceptionally high amount of vitamin C, thiamine, zinc, calcium, carotene, essential oils. Eating this plant helps to prevent colds, improve appetite and activity of the digestive tract. Green parts of this culture are good for kidney disease, gout, rheumatism and the flu. Especially delicious is the onion-batun, cooked in the oven with cheese and eggs. And finely chopped leaves since ancient times use as an antiseptic. Therefore, to have such a plant on the site is extremely beneficial.

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