After what can you plant onions?

Onions are the most popular vegetable grown in the backyard. In order to get a good harvest, it is recommended to prepare a planting site in advance. It is important to consider what kind of crop was grown on this site last year.

The fact is that some plants take useful substances from the soil, while others, on the contrary, enrich the soil. Having studied the basic rules for growing onions, in the fall you can get a really good harvest.

There is a category of gardeners who have a specific place on the site for each crop, that is, every year after onions in the same garden they plant onions again. In this case, you should definitely not expect a good harvest – even with the right care. Onions deplete the soil and accumulate certain types of pathogens in it. It is absolutely impossible to plant onions after onions. It is best to give this site for the cultivation of crops such as:

• beans;
• roots;
• nightshade;
• pumpkin.

Here, too, there is one important feature. It is necessary to decide for what purposes onions are grown: on a feather or on a turnip. In the first case, they are most often planted before winter, that is, they dig up a garden bed in the fall and already plant sevok.

Since the summer season, the site has not yet rested, so the most favorable predecessors for onions in this case are green manure plants (the exception is clover), legumes, cereals and mustard.

Onions can also be planted on a turnip after green manure. Their advantage is that they enrich the soil with nitrogen, raising deep-seated nutrients to the upper layers of the soil. A good harvest will be obtained if you plant onions in the area where legumes were previously grown.

The ideal option for planting before winter would be:

• mustard;
• rape;
• rye;
• beans and beans.

For winter planting, the most favorable predecessors are: tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and cabbage of various varieties. You can plant onions after potatoes, but in this case you need to be as careful as possible. The fact is that these vegetables have common diseases. So, if the potato has been exposed to it, there is a high risk of onion infection. The result is a poor harvest.

There are neutral crop options, after which you can safely grow onions in the garden and hope for a good harvest. These plants include strawberries. As a rule, it is considered perennial, so gardeners are in no hurry to move berry bushes from one place to another.

But if it so happened that the following year, for some reason, strawberries had to be “relocated” to another site, then on this bed you can safely grow onions of different varieties for a feather or a turnip. It is only necessary to completely free this space from bushes and strawberry roots, dig it well, make the bed even. If desired, it is allowed to introduce nitrogen-containing fertilizers. After these events, you can plant onions in the autumn or spring. With proper care, you will get a very good harvest.

Also, onions will feel good on those beds, where radishes, radish and other similar root crops used to be grown. If we talk about a suitable neighborhood, then again the most favorable options are strawberry and strawberry. Near these crops, onions feel great. In addition, they do not have common diseases, so they cannot affect each other’s productivity in any way.

With the wrong crop rotation, the yield will decrease several times every year. If you do not follow the rules, then soon the onion crop will be scarce, and the vegetables themselves will be small and of poor quality in taste.

As already mentioned, it is strictly forbidden to plant onions after onions. This requirement has a number of explanations.

• Identical nutrients are taken from the ground. In one year, the soil cannot replenish them either on its own or with the help of top dressing.
• Onion predecessor can get sick. The pathogens will remain in the ground, and some of them will not die even during the winter. If a new onion is planted in the same place, then most likely it will also be susceptible to the same disease.

The same rule applies to garlic. Its properties are similar to onions. Both crops are susceptible to attacks by the same pathogens, therefore, both subsequent planting and neighborhood are highly discouraged. As for garlic, some gardeners have a different opinion. They believe that it repels onion fly and weevil. This is true. But still, competition may arise between two identical cultures: one of them will begin to turn yellow and fade. It is not recommended to plant onions after sunflowers.

But not everything depends on the correctness of the chosen neighbor and predecessor. The quantity and quality of the crop is largely related to the soil in which the seeds are planted. Onions are fond of warm soil, so initially for planting it is necessary to choose those areas that are well warmed up by the sun’s rays throughout the day. You should also take into account the characteristics of the earth. For this vegetable, moderately acidic, loamy and moderately moist soil would be an ideal option.

It is strongly not recommended to plant this vegetable:

• in the lowlands, where it is always damp and cold, because it will rot and grow poorly;
• in cold ground;
• into acidic soil.

If a suitable sunny area is selected, but the measurements showed too high a level of acidity, then this indicator can be changed manually. To do this, you need to perform the liming procedure. This must be done 2 years before the proposed planting of this crop on the site. The process of preparing the soil is as follows: the beds must be carefully dug up on a shovel bayonet, all existing weeds must be pulled out, and fertilizers must be introduced into the soil.

The calculation of the applied fertilizer will be as follows: mix 5 kg of rotted manure or some other humus with 1 kg of ash. TaWhat volume will be needed for each square meter of soil. It is recommended to repeat the procedure next year. And already in the third year, the garden bed will be completely ready for sowing. In such soil, you can grow a vegetable both on a feather and on a turnip. In the fertilization process, it is very important not to use fresh manure. The fact is that for onions such top dressing is almost fatal. If the soil was once fertilized in this way, then this area will be unsuitable for onions for the next 3-4 years.

Onions require moderately abundant watering. When the soil dries out, the feather will be yellow, and the turnip will be flabby and small. If you water the crop too much and often, it will begin to rot. If you follow all the conditions of crop rotation, properly prepare the soil and take good care of the crop, you can have a good harvest every year.