How to plant onions on the balcony?

Spring onion is a common condiment in our life, which is necessary for stew and salad. At present, many people also like to plant several pots on their balcony, so how to grow onions on the balcony?

1. Select seedlings

Grow onions on the balcony and buy edible but untreated onions directly from the market. When buying onions, choose green leaves, fresh leaves and complete roots. Then cut off the upper leaves and eat them, leaving the rest of the roots for planting.

2. Prepare the basin

Spring onions do not require much choice of pots, any container is fine, as long as the space is large enough. There are some flowers and plants at home, those with space can be planted directly together, saving space and preventing diseases and insect pests.

3. Planting

Put the right amount of soil in the basin, then dig a hole, plant the onion root inside, cover the soil and compact, pour some water.

4. Maintenance

(1) watering skills: keep the soil moist after sowing and before growing leaves. Small chives grow to about 15 centimeters, to ensure sufficient water, in order to promote the rapid growth of chives. In the middle stage of growth, the amount of water can be reduced appropriately.

(2) fertilization skills: fertilizer can be applied every ten days. Fertilizer can choose ordinary compound fertilizer, or flower fertilizer. The most economical fertilizer is rice water. Amoy rice water is not only environmentally friendly, but also provides water and nutrients, so it is very suitable to be used as fertilizer for chives.

Generally speaking, it is very simple to grow onions on the balcony, as long as you select the seedlings and plant them in the basin, and then do a good job in basic management work such as watering, fertilization, pest control and so on.