What's the difference between shallots and chives? With high-yield planting techniques

Shallots, also known as spring onions, green onions, winter onions, frozen onions and so on, are widely cultivated in southern China. In fact, they are a variety of spring onions and an important condiment, which are often used in cooking and stewing. What's the difference between shallots and chives? What are the high-yield planting techniques?

What's the difference between shallots and chives?

Shallots generally have a height of about 20-30 cm, leaves green, cylindrical, hollow, apex acuminate, flowers whitish green, clustered, bulb base easy to connect, group-like, covered with red film when mature. The shape of shallots is like shrunken scallions, which are white and long, with thin leaves, because it is indeed a variety of scallions.

The leaves of chives are slender and look like shallots, and their relatives are closer to scallions. The plants called "chives" in some places are different varieties or varieties of chives. There is another kind, called chives, also called scallions, shrimp scallions. Chives are the only plants of the genus Allium distributed across Eurasia and North America. We have wild species in Xinjiang, if it is blooming, then you can recognize it at a glance, because its inflorescence is large and round, pink and purple, very beautiful.

2. High-yielding planting techniques of shallot

1. Soil preparation and fertilization: shallots require deep, loose and fertile sandy loam, deep ploughing land, 4000 kg of fine farm manure per mu as base fertilizer, mixed with soil to make a border 2 meters wide, raked flat, ditched in the border, 6 cm to 7 cm deep, 20 cm to 25 cm for precocious planting, and 40 cm for general planting.

2, planting at the right time: the bulbs should be prepared for planting onions, and the bulbs should be left one by one, basking in the sun for 1 day, and about 50 kilograms per mu should be prepared. Precocious planting 2-3 kinds of bulbs are planted in each hole, the hole distance is 15 cm. Generally, 3-4 kinds of bulbs are planted in each hole, with a distance of 20-25 cm. Plant in the ditch, cover the soil after planting, the distance between the bulb and the soil surface is 6-7 cm, and water after covering the soil.

3. Field management: the main thing in field management of shallots is topdressing, stopping ploughing and weeding, watering, and soil hardening, etc. Forced fertilizer is mainly available nitrogen fertilizer. From plant growth to 12 cm, topdressing is the first, once a month, 3 times and 4 times. Water one day a month, and the watering times can be increased appropriately in case of drought. After two times of topdressing, the first to cultivate the soil, co-cultivate the soil for two or three times, as usual, the matter of topdressing stops, that is to say, it is necessary to cultivate the soil in the future, each time the soil depth should not be too deep, it is appropriate not to cultivate too much green onion.

4. timely harvest: except in hot summer, shallot can be harvested in early summer, spring and early winter. the detailed harvest time varies according to the species and planting situation, but only the leaves can be harvested and fertilized once after each harvest. It can also be pulled out, washed away from the soil, tied into small bundles and sold on the market.