Ebook on growing onions and other alliums
The Growing and Knowing Onions and Edible Relatives ebook explains everything you need to know about growing onions, garlic, chives, shallots, leeks and more. This ebook will help you understand how to grow crops or a small selection for your home vegetable garden. This ebook covers ideal growing conditions for onions and other plants in the allium family, so that you can have fresh and delicious home grown produce.
Written by horticulturalists and specialists in growing vegetables, this ebook covers everything you need to know about growing onions and other Alliums.
Start reading and growing onions now with this handy ebook.
Table of contents
CHAPTER 1 SCOPE & NATURE OF THE ONION FAMILY
- How Onions are Classified
- Onion History
- The Characteristic Oniony Flavour
- The Flavour of Different Alliums
CHAPTER 2 ONIONS, SHALLOTS & SPRING ONIONS
- Plant Description
- Conditions for Growing Onions
- Temperature and Photoperiod
- Soil
- Managing Soil Nutrient Levels
- Bulbing and Bolting
- Land Preparation
- Bed Preparation
- Direct Seeding
- Transplanting
- Irrigation
- Wind Protection
- Nutrient Requirements
- Weed Management
- Harvesting
- Curing
- Handling and Storage
- Pests and Diseases
- IPM Management
- Some Onions to Try
- Spring Onions (Allium cepa)
- Growing Conditions
- Pests and Diseases
- Harvest
- Storage
- Spring Onion Varieties
- Bunching Onions (Allium fistulosum)
- Bunching Onion Varieties
- Shallots (Allium cepa var. aggregatum)
- Shallot Varieties
- French Grey Shallots (Allium oschaninii)
CHAPTER 3 GARLIC (Allium sativum and Allium ophioscordon)
- Background
- Nutrition
- Garlic Types
- Plant Structure
- Soil Type
- Nutrient Requirements
- Pests & Diseases
- Cultivars
- Hardneck Cultivars
- Softneck Cultivars
- Harvesting
- Preserving & Storing
- Culinary uses
- Medicinal uses
CHAPTER 4 CHIVES
- Growing Conditions
- Pests and Diseases
- Chive Varieties
- Common Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
- Siberian Chives (Allium nutans)
- Varieties
- Giant Siberian Chives (Allium ledebourianum)
- Harvesting
- Storage
- Culinary uses
CHAPTER 4 LEEKS
- Conditions for Growing
- Production
- Planting
- Soil
- Nutrient Requirements
- Pests and Diseases
- Harvest and Post-Harvest
- Varieties
- Culinary uses
- Health benefits
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