Stuttgarter Riesen onion sets. Characteristics, description, photo

Onions of the Stuttgarter Riesen variety have juicy pulp, a pungent taste and are a successful example of German selection. These onions are usually cultivated as onions, and in the summer season they are planted for forcing greens. Growing crops has its own characteristics.

Onion variety Stuttgarter Riesen

Stuttgarter Riesen frost-resistant onion

Stuttgarter Riesen onions have a pungent taste and spicy aroma

Characteristics of the variety

The Stuttgarter Riesen bow was registered in 1995 in Germany; its cultivation is associated with one of the German companies. Similar types of onions were used to develop the variety. When growing vegetables, agronomists selected the best qualities from all the varieties of greens used.

Stuttgarter Riesen onion sets

The shape of the bulb is flattened at the top and round at the bottom. Onion peels are light orange in color, and the size of one onion is medium. On average, a bulb can weigh about 50 g, the largest heads weigh about 100 g. The variety has a mildly sharp and mild taste.

Stuttgarter Riesen is an onion belonging to the early varieties. It is valued for the fact that, despite its rapid ripening, its taste lasts for a long time. Its feathers also taste good. In addition, it is unpretentious and does not require special growing conditions. The variety is high-yielding.

Characteristics that are important for gardeners can be presented in the table:

Description of the Stuttgarter Riesen bow

Stuttgarter Riesen is a variety characterized by high yield and versatility of use. It is used to prepare fresh salads, a variety of dishes, and canned food for the winter. Due to the dry matter content, long-term storage in dried or frozen form is possible. Forcing allows you to get healthy young greens.

This is an excellent remedy in the fight against colds thanks to vitamin C, the main element of onions.

Onion sets Stuttgarter Riesen: description

Medium or large onions are round in shape with slightly flattened ends. When ripe, the scales acquire a straw-yellow or golden-brown hue. The taste is pleasant, medium spicy, the smell is strong.

Growing regions

Stuttgarter Riesen (onion adaptable to any region of Russia) can grow in any climate. Most often it is grown in greenhouses for sale, which is considered a fairly profitable and popular activity. However, it should be borne in mind that depending on the climate, the timing of crop ripening may change.

According to agronomists, the onion harvest will be higher in 4 regions of Russia:

• in Central;
• in Eastern Siberia;
• in the Middle Volga;
• in Volgo-Vyatsky.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Onions of this variety have many advantages, and they have almost no disadvantages. So, gardeners speak positively about it because it ripens early, and even from a small plot you can harvest a large harvest.

Onions are almost not damaged during transportation. Stuttgarter Riesen is almost not susceptible to diseases and pest attacks. Onions can be grown from seedlings in the window. In this case, it is not necessary to create special conditions for the growth of bulbs.

The only drawback discovered by everyone who grew this type of onion is that if the weather is too wet, it can deteriorate and rot. Therefore, when planting, it is also important to follow the watering regime; watering should be moderate.

Reviews from gardeners

Molodkina, Smolensk

As for keeping quality, this variety is a champion. It began to sprout and rot only in March.

Source: otzovik.com

Diego, Belovo

It is worth buying this bow, it is very good and inexpensive. This year we will try to plant this variety with seeds.

Source: otzovik.com

Features of cultivation

You should not grow onions of this variety for several years in the same place; it is recommended to change the planting location every year. Onions grow well and produce a large harvest on fertilized and fertile lands.

But it is also possible to harvest on soils with insufficient nutrients. The difference between the harvest will be the size of the bulbs - the heads grown in less nutritious soil will be smaller in size, but will retain their taste. Onions can be planted on the ground where tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini or radishes previously grew. It is better to plant it either in autumn or spring.

From seeds

Stuttgarter Riesen is an onion that ripens very quickly - 65 - 70 days pass from the time the first shoots appear. The harvest can be harvested faster than onions planted in the spring.

The time for sowing seeds is early autumn or late summer, you can start from August 20. In this case, the plants will have time to grow and develop normally, and fully form the root system. Such bulbs can withstand frost without problems, and when the snow melts, sprouts will appear.

In addition, bulbs planted in the fall produce fewer arrows. In the spring, the bulbs can be planted when all the frosts have passed.

The procedure for planting seeds is the same for all seasons: both winter and spring.

1. Soak the seeds in warm water overnight. This will help speed up their growth.
2. Air dry the seeds by spreading them on a paper towel.
3. Make thin furrows 2–3 cm deep in the ground. The distance between rows should be at least 15 cm. The soil should be moderately moist.
4. Sow the bulbs in the furrows. They must be distributed evenly across the beds. Sprinkle a little dry soil on top of the planting.
5. To avoid crust formation, do not water the soil immediately after sowing.
6. When sprouts appear, thin out the rows to give the bulbs enough room to grow. Each bulb should be planted at a distance of 7 - 10 cm from the other.

From seedlings

The time for growing from seedlings is early spring. Seedlings should be left in a lighted room at room temperature. You can plant bulbs in open ground only when the soil temperature is at least 15 degrees.

From onion sets

The harvest period when planting from onion sets increases - 100 - 112 days will pass from the moment of the first shoots. To get a good harvest, you should give preference to medium and small bulbs that do not have external damage.

Before planting the bulb, you must:

1. Sort, dry and inspect the bulbs for disease and insect damage. This step is very important if the goal of planting is to obtain a large harvest.
2. Soak the onion in warm water for a day to stimulate germination.
3. Disinfect the bulbs before planting in the ground. To do this, use a composition of salt and potassium permanganate. Ingredient ratio: 5 liters of water to 2 liters of salt. Tint the mixture with potassium permanganate until it turns light pink.
4. The distance between the bulbs in the bed should be 10 - 15 cm. They must be buried 3 - 5 cm, based on the size of the bulbs. Leave about 20 cm between rows.

Growing onions for feathers

Stuttgarter Riesen (onions with good taste) can be grown on feathers. Greens also have a pronounced aroma and pleasant taste. Both small and larger bulbs can be planted on the feather.

To grow Stuttgarter Riesen for a feather, you need:

1. At the growing point, make cross-shaped cuts on all the bulbs.
2. Leaving almost no gaps, plant the bulbs in the garden bed.
3. To leave space for movement between rows, you should divide the beds with paths.

Preparation of planting material for feathers in winter

For planting, only onion sets are used. Seeds for this type of planting are considered unsuitable. Read about the features of planting onion sets in the fall here.

Work with small onions like this:

1. To begin with, the planting material is carefully sorted. Only bulbs of the correct shape are left, without any significant visual defects. Do not use rotten, moldy or broken samples for planting.
2. Next, the sets are heated to a temperature of 42 degrees. This process takes experienced vegetable growers 8 hours. You can use central heating or stoves for it (if you live in a private house). In this case, you need to carefully ensure that the seed does not dry out or overheat, otherwise it may not sprout.
3. On the eve of transplanting to the ground, the onions must be soaked. To do this, take a bucket of warm water with a temperature of 35 to 40 degrees Celsius, add potassium permanganate to it in a proportion of 0.1 grams per liter of liquid. After this, a few drops of aloe juice are also added to the solution. If you don't have it on hand, you can do without this ingredient. The bulbs are soaked in the resulting solution for knocking.
4. After 24 hours, the seedlings are taken out of the water and laid out on burlap or film. After this, they wait until the seed dries out a little, and only after that they begin to sow it.
5. The bulbs themselves are planted in rows in the garden. At the same time, they maintain a space between such rows of 25 centimeters. The bulbs themselves are placed at a distance of at least 10 cm from each other (otherwise they will interfere with each other’s development). After sowing, the beds are watered with a small amount of water.

Onions are planted in rows, while maintaining a spacing of 25 centimeters.

Particular attention is also paid to the choice of time for planting onions. So, very small sets are planted early in the morning, but larger specimens are planted closer to lunch, as soon as the soil warms up to at least a temperature of 10 degrees.

Cultivation care

Despite the fact that onions are an unpretentious crop, it is necessary to follow basic recommendations for caring for beds with seedlings. Otherwise, the crop may be lost or its quality may be significantly reduced.

Weeding, loosening

The beds should be loosened and weeded so that the plants receive enough oxygen and light to grow. It is also necessary to remove weeds from the beds so that they do not choke the growth of onions.

Fertilizer

To improve the quality of the harvest, it is recommended to fertilize the soil in which the bulbs grow. Currently, you can choose between organic, mineral and complex fertilizers.

So, you can dilute mullein (cow dung) in 10 liters of water. After dissolving the product, leave it in a dark room for several days. Plants can be treated with this solution. You can use not only cow manure, but also chicken manure. It should also be diluted in water in a ratio of 1 to 20. It must be applied to well-moistened soil.

Since chicken manure contains a large amount of nitrogen, the growth of onions after applying this type of fertilizing increases - many new shoots grow in the garden bed.

Horse mash is rarely used to feed onions. However, this remedy is also considered effective. The fertilizer contains rotted horse manure and an infusion of herbs (for example, fresh nettle). The grass should be filled with water in a barrel. It must be left to soak in water for 3 days. Then the infusion must be mixed with manure and water.

Mixing proportions: 1 liter of manure to 10 liters of water. After this, you should leave the fertilizing to infuse for 2 days. Before use, the fertilizer should also be mixed in water.

When purchasing mineral fertilizers, it is necessary to avoid excessive use of such fertilizers, since nitrates will accumulate in the fruits. Fertilizers can be applied in 2 ways. You can dilute dry granules with fertilizer in water, and apply the resulting solution to the ground. On the 2nd day after feeding, you should water the area generously to wash away the unabsorbed components of the substance.

You can also simply sprinkle the granules around the bulbs on a rainy day. The granules will dissolve under the action of the liquid, and all that remains to be done is to carefully loosen the soil around the heads.

For good growth and yield, minerals such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus should be used. All these substances are necessary for the culture at different stages of growth and development.

The third way to feed onions is to purchase complex fertilizers. This type of product should be purchased in specialized stores for gardeners. Nitroammophoska is considered the safest and most effective.

Some garden owners who grow onions in their gardens feed onions with folk remedies. However, it must be remembered that if the dosage is not observed or if the fertilizer is prepared incorrectly, it can harm the plants.

So, you can feed the greens with bread, in particular, dry pieces. They should be filled with water and left to infuse. The liquid in the bowl with the bread should ferment, after which it can be used to water the beds. But this type of feeding will be effective only if the temperature rises above +20 degrees.

In addition to bread, wood ash, eggshells, boric acid and yeast can be used as top dressing.

Feeding onions according to the seasons

In spring, onions should be fed in several steps: when planting, when shoots appear, and when the bulbs are formed.

The soil needs to be dug up and weeds removed. In spring it is necessary to apply organic fertilizers. If the soil is poor and infertile, you can add mineral fertilizers. Then, around the 13th day, shoots may appear. To speed up the growth process, you can use nitrogen fertilizers, which are added to the ground on the 7th day of bulb growth.

The most effective fertilizing can be called urea. This product is very important for those who grow onions. At the stage of bulb development, the beds should be fertilized again. You should not use nitrogen complexes this time.

The last feeding should be done in June, which will increase the size of the bulbs. For this purpose, compositions containing phosphorus are used. If onions were planted in May, phosphorus should be added to the soil later. If you use nitrogen preparations, they can slow down the growth of the bulbs.

If you feed the plot in the fall, you can increase the likelihood of getting a good harvest several times. But before applying fertilizers, it is necessary to disinfect the soil. For this, Bordeaux mixture or copper sulfate is used. After this, the soil must be dug up, adding humus in the process.

During the winter months, beneficial substances will be distributed throughout the beds and make the soil more nutritious and rich in minerals. This is especially important for those who will grow onions on the plot once.

Diseases, harmful bugs

Despite the fact that onions can resist many diseases, they should be treated against onion fly larvae. If larvae or already insects were noticed on the bulbs, such heads must be destroyed, since they cannot be eaten.

You can fight the pest in different ways. So, you can plant onions next to carrots so that they repel insects with their smell. To avoid the appearance of flies, you should not plant onions several times in the same area. By mulching the beds, you can also combat the appearance of larvae on the bulbs. Digging the soil in the fall will help destroy the larvae.

Harvesting and proper storage of crops

Green feathers and small onions can be eaten throughout the season. Before harvesting onions, watering should be reduced and then stopped completely. You can harvest the fruit when the foliage turns yellow and withers. If the bulbs are kept in the soil, they can germinate again.

Before placing the bulbs in their final storage location, you should sort through them, discarding damaged or rotten heads. If they have spoiled just a little, they can be used for culinary purposes. They should not be placed next to healthy bulbs, as they can ruin the entire harvest.

The harvest can be placed in wooden boxes in the basement or cellar. The room temperature should not rise above 5 degrees, otherwise the onion will sprout. It is also important to avoid dampness.

Tips and tricks for growing

When growing onions, you should follow some rules and recommendations.

If any mistake is made, the quality of the crop will deteriorate.

• Since onion seeds are very small in size, they can be mixed with chalk crumbs when planting. This will help you understand whether the bulbs are evenly distributed throughout the bed.
• Onions should not be planted in a bed where potatoes were previously grown. In such beds, crops will suffer from a lack of nutrients.
• When buying onion sets, you need to remember that they are more expensive than onion seeds.

When feeding onions, you should remember a number of rules:

• Fertilizer should be applied on a cool and not too sunny day. In windy weather, you should not fertilize the crops.
• Nutrients are applied at the root. The greenery must not be touched. If the beds are large, fertilizing is applied between the rows. This will avoid burns.
• Onion beds should be loosened before feeding them. It is best to loosen in the morning so that the soil dries out faster.
• Onions are fertilized about 2–3 times during the season. This is important if the land on the site is very poor.
• When purchasing medications, you should monitor their expiration date. If fertilizers are out of date, it can harm crops.

Stuttgarter Riesen is considered an unpretentious onion, however, when growing it, it is necessary to follow the recommendations for its care. The onion fly can significantly harm the crop, so it is important to carry out disinfection on time. If all recommendations are followed, you can get a large and tasty harvest.

Choosing a landing site

Stuttgarter Risen thrives best on acidic dry clay soils of neutral type. For growing as a business, loose, light, fertile soil is ideal. Do not plant it on acidic soils - this may negatively affect the yield of the crop. When planting onions for the winter, be sure to first add peat and humus to the soil in order to increase the fertility of the site.

This culture must be placed in a well-ventilated, bright place where water never stagnate. Otherwise, the seedlings may rot at the end of autumn, and you will lose the entire harvest. How to plant onion sets correctly is described in this article.