What if the onion sprouts for a long time? Set the desk with bonsai

Fried meat with onions is a home-cooked dish, and many potted friends also like it. However, sometimes we buy onions and don't make them into food in time and sprout ourselves a few days later. In this case, many people worry that eating sprouted onions will bring health problems, so they simply throw them away in the dustbin. In fact, even if you don't eat onions for a while, you don't have to throw them away. Because onions can not only be edible, but also can be grown to enjoy bonsai.

Potted vegetables: a course in making potted vegetables

Onion bonsai

Germinated onions can be cultivated not only in soil, but also in water. However, whether it is soil culture or hydroponic culture, it can be made into ornamental bonsai, and onion bonsai remains green all the year round, which can bring a touch of green to the environment and has high ornamental value. More importantly, if we plant onions in pots, we can get edible onions. This will not only waste materials, but also can see the elegant demeanor of onion bonsai, why not do it? Today, Hua Youjun told you how onions sprouted into bonsai!

Onion bonsai

1. First, pick out the onions that have sprouted, and then prepare them for soil culture to make bonsai. Of course, if you don't have sprouting onions at home, you can also try to buy a few and keep them fresh in the refrigerator so that they can sprout in a few days. At that time, we can use it to make onion bonsai.

Onion bonsai

2. Take out the germinated onion and peel off the soft pleated base skin. Be careful not to remove the roots at the bottom, and onions mainly rely on it to absorb nutrients and maintain their growth. Of course, try not to get the top buds off, so that green branches will grow faster.

Onion bonsai

3. Cut the onions close to half with a kitchen knife, and be careful not to cut the buds in half, even if they are injured. This is mainly to ensure that onions survive and maintain good growth.

Onion bonsai

4. Carefully remove the buds from most of the remaining onions, because we only need the buds to plant. If the part of the peeled onion is not bad, we can use it to continue cooking. It seems that the taste has not changed much, thus making full use of resources and avoiding waste.

5. Prepare the flowerpot and the soil, put the soil into the flowerpot, and then plant the onion buds into it. Notice that the end of the root is facing down and the buds are kept upward and exposed to the soil. Then cultivate the soil and water it. After completing the planting, put the potted plants on the balcony or windowsill in a sunny position.

Onion bonsai

The process of onion potted plant is roughly like this, but if you want to turn it into a more ornamental green onion bonsai, the later maintenance and management work can not be ignored. Bonsai onions can be enjoyed at ordinary times, but when the season is ripe, we can dig up onions and make them into delicacies.

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