You can’t grow carrots and tomatoes in a city apartment. But you can plant onions in a bottle. For a daily soup and for salad, that's enough.

Preparation of a flowerpot and soil

Preparing a plastic bottle does not take much time. To do this, you must:

1. An empty water bottle of 5-10 liters. A container of washing powder or dishwashing detergent will not work, since chemicals are not completely washed out. Onions will grow poorly.
2. Sharp scissors or knife.
3. Soldering iron.

1. Cut the neck at a distance comfortable for planting seedlings. The hand should pass freely inside the pot.
2. Use a pair of scissors or a knife to cut holes in a bottle in a checkerboard pattern. Place the lowest row at a distance of 10-15 cm from the bottom. If the holes are placed at the very bottom, the bulbs will rot from stagnant water. Small bulbs will be inserted into the holes, so they should not be made too narrow.
3. Round the edges with a soldering iron so that the young feathers are not damaged.

For onion heads in the flower shop you can buy garden soil and drainage. For independent soil preparation you will need: peat (7 parts), garden soil (1 part) and humus (2 parts). Small stones are suitable as drainage.

Onion variety selection

In this case, it is not the size of the grown bulbs that matters, but the greens. As well as quick shoots and growth. Therefore, we focus on early ripening varieties and multi-germ species. For growing onions at home, gardeners choose the following plants.

Slime

It smells like garlic. It has wide, flat and delicate leaves. Matures quickly. When grown indoors, it is feathered year-round. On the street, mucus fructifies to frost.

Leek

Bitter taste. It has wide tubular leaves. It is called in different places dudukny, Tatar, winter, pearl, sand. Gives high yields.

Shallot

Record holder among the onions. Differs in plentiful greens and unpretentious leaving.

Shniit

Alternative to shallots. He is not picky and brings abundant crops. Shniit leaves grow up to 50 cm long.

Egyptian or Canadian onions

Not capricious in leaving. Frost resistant.

Many nests for growth have such varieties as:

1. Bessonovsky.
2. Timiryazevsky.
3. Spassky.
4. Rostov.
5. Union of Chernihiv.

It is best to plant several varieties at home for a change and experimentally choose the most delicious for yourself.

Landing rules

There are no strict conditions for planting onions at home. The main thing is to correctly install splinters in the holes. They have two functions. On the one hand, they close a hole like a cork, on the other, they are a source of fruit. So, the land is bought, the bottles are prepared.

Proceed to landing:

1. We put drainage at the bottom of the tank: small stones, fragments of brick, expanded clay, etc.
2. We spread the first layer of earth to the first level with holes, rammed.
3. Cut the growth point from the bulbs so that they begin to release greens faster.
4. We insert torches into the holes, pour the earth.
5. Repeat the last point until the whole bottle is full.
6. We put the flowerpot in a deep pan so that during irrigation the water does not pour past.

Onion care in a bottle

A lot of light and heat will allow the root system of the plant to gain a firm foothold in the ground in the first week. This period is the most responsible.

Care Tips:

1. Onions need sunlight 12 hours a day. In winter, additional lighting will have to be provided with phytolamps.
2. At a temperature of +25 ... + 27 ° C, onions are able to germinate as much as possible.
3. Organic dressing is injected with a syringe no more than once a month.
4. The leaves will be juicy, dense and bright if you water the plant with warm water at a temperature of +17 ... + 20 ° С. If the room is too hot, and watering is done with cold water - the leaves turn pale.
5. If the bulbs begin to bear fruit poorly - it's time to change them.

Now you know how to grow green onions in a bottle. You can independently prepare a flowerpot and soil, and also choose a suitable grade.