Settle on your site shallots! You will not regret! 👍

  • Dec 24, 2019
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Since ancient times in Russia cultivated shallots. It was called - sorokozubka. Old Believers who use shallots were not afraid of any cold or scurvy or other diseases. Thanks to our ancestors, this variety grows well and has survived to this day.

Grow this useful and tasty vegetable, very simple, and the power of even inexperienced gardener, enough only to adhere to is not complicated techniques and technologies.

Features shallot

This onion variety is virtually identical in its properties from its other counterparts, and thus its cultivation technology is very similar to the other species. The difference only that shalotimeet bulbs are much smaller, but whose shelf life is much longer.

This vegetable is very useful and contains:

  • vitamin PP.
  • Vitamins B1, B2.
  • Salt.
  • Carotene.
  • Selenium.
  • Vanadium.
  • Cobalt.

In appearance the grade is slightly different from, the usual all onions. Its fruit is a bit smaller. Perot already fleshy, about 25-30 centimeters in length, has a dark turquoise color.

The shrub is necessary for sheets 7-12. Feathers thin, delicate and extremely tasty, provide an excellent early Cut greenery.

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The fruit may be flat, round or oval. If the landing was made too heap, the form may be incorrect.

"Shirt" ripe, the dried vegetable has a light yellow, pale violet, pale pink or yellowish color.

The family is formed from 4 to 10 pieces, a caliber of 2.5 to 4.5 cm. In contrast to the onion-turnip stalks are not hollow inside. The flower is not different from the usual bow and has the shape of an umbrella, but the seeds are much smaller with compared with the conventional.

cultivation

Onions sorokozubka different amazing precocity. From planting to full ripeness bulbs takes only 50-70 days. Enough frost.

The recommended landing month - April. This is due to the fact that the melt water will naturally nourish the plant every day sunlight will give more energy. Sometimes onion plant only "on pen", in such case, the width between the rows can be 17-22 cm, and between the fruits of 7-11 centimeters.

Before planting shallots in the spring, you need to properly calibrate the material for reproduction. Onions should be about 10 grams, and their size is not greater than 2-3 cm in diameter. Thankfully, shallots sorokozubka responds to the land application of wood ash.

If you comply with these proportions, it is possible to select every fourth bush to collect feathers, and leave the rest for the bulbs mature.

Planting one bulb at the end of the season you can collect up to ten large fruit.