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Onion Banana Giant is an early ripe garlic-onion hybrid that has a sweetish aftertaste. The dietary product has a lot of medicinal properties. The cultivation of this variety does not require large expenditures, it does not cause difficulties even for beginner gardeners.
Description of onion variety Banana Giant
The onion variety has several names, the most common among them are kuschevka and shallots. The hybrid owes its name to its resemblance to an exotic fruit, but unlike a banana, the Giant is not afraid of frost. Onions of this variety do not contain volatile compounds, so they do not hurt the eyes. Recommended for salads, soups, roasts.
Appearance
The bulb of the Banana Giant is quite large, elongated. The upper scales are golden in color, the inner part of the fruit is white in color. The aerial part of the bush is green feathers, the length of which reaches 35 cm. They are much superior in taste to other varieties.
Shallots grow in nests. Each can form from 5 to 15 bulbs with an average weight of up to 100 g. The more bulbs in the family, the smaller they are.
Ripening time and yield
Onion Banana Giant is an early ripening variety. In temperate regions, ripening occurs after 2,5 months. Oblong fruits grow up to 10 cm in height, the diameter of the vegetable is 2,5 cm. The weight of the bulb is from 70 to 170 g.
The yield indicators of the Banana Giant hybrid from 1 ha vary from 12 to 25 tons
Growing regions
The hybrid was cultivated in European countries, India, Egypt and Greece. The golden giant has gained popularity in Our Country and the countries of the former CIS.
Benefit and harm
Compared to other onions, banana shallots are the champion in terms of the content of useful and nutritious. There are more vitamins and mineral microelements in the hybrid than in the onion. Family Giant is considered an excellent prophylactic.
Useful properties of golden onions:
- has a wound healing effect;
- improves brain activity;
- strengthens the eye muscles;
- normalizes blood pressure, thins the blood;
- increases the body’s resistance to colds and viral diseases;
- improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and the cardiovascular system.
Reduce the consumption of Banana Giant should be those who have liver and kidney disease. People suffering from high acidity of the gastrointestinal tract should limit the use of vegetables.
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantages of the Banana Giant variety include:
- unpretentiousness in care;
- high yield;
- precocity;
- frost resistance, the possibility of winter sowing;
- excellent taste;
- versatility of application;
- high concentration of vitamins and minerals;
- unlike other hybrids, there is no need to buy planting material annually.
Onions have not been found to be deficient.
Terms of planting
Banana Giant belongs to frost-resistant varieties, but it is recommended to plant it in the spring, when the soil warms up well. For example, if you plant onions at the end of March (beginning of April), you can feast on juicy green feathers in May. Kuschevka will ripen by the end of June.
Planting shallots Banana Giant
For planting a family onion, you should choose a site that is well warmed up by the sun’s rays. The soil should be fertile, loose, acidity level – 6,5-7 pH. If groundwater is close to the surface, it is necessary to equip a drainage system.
Shallot Banana Giant must be alternated with legumes
Cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini and cucumbers are considered good predecessors. It is not recommended to grow family onions next to onions, as they can be pollinated.
Growing onions Banana giant from seeds
Prolonged vegetative propagation leads to a decrease in yield, the appearance of diseases, and the chopping of bulbs. To update the variety, every few years they resort to growing a hybrid from seeds.
Seeds sown in spring for autumn will give onion sets, which will delight in a rich harvest next season.
Planting sevka
For cultivation, medium-sized bushes are selected (large ones will give many small bulbs, and barren fruits are formed from small things). To protect the crop from damage by fungal diseases, a few days before planting, the seedlings should be heated in water at 40-42 ° C for 8-10 hours or placed in a solution of potassium permanganate for 30 minutes.
To plant a seed at a distance of 30 cm from each other, it is necessary to make grooves. The span between the bulbs in the furrow must be at least 10 cm.
Immerse the kushchevka to such a depth that it sticks out a little above the soil surface
Sprinkling the seedlings with soil, the site should be mulched.
Onion Care Banana Giant
Agrotechnical measures that should be carried out in the process of caring for plantings of Banana Giant onions:
- Watering is carried out during the dry period, irrigating the beds every seven days. The soil on the site should not dry out and crack. If the summer turned out to be rainy, additional watering is not required. Three weeks before harvesting, artificial watering is stopped, this will improve the keeping quality of the onion.
- Loosening. At the initial stage of cultivation, it is recommended to loosen the aisles every week. This will not only saturate the soil with oxygen, allowing the onion nests to grow better, but also prevent weeds from rising, which can drown out the plantings.
- Application of fertilizers. During the growing season, shallots should be fed twice. The first time – after the emergence of seedlings (cow dung or bird droppings are diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10 or 1:15, respectively). The second time – during the formation of the bulbs (40 g of complex mineral fertilizers are dissolved in a bucket of water).
- Fight against diseases and pests. In cold, damp summers, shallots can be affected by fungal diseases. Noticing the disease, the plant must be removed from the site, and the beds should be treated with a solution of Pentofag, Mikosan or Quadris. Of the parasites, the onion fly and aphids can annoy the hybrid. For preventive purposes, the bushes are treated with saline.
Cleaning and storage
Onion harvesting begins after the foliage dries. This happens at the end of June or at the beginning of July. If the Banana Giant stays in the ground longer than that, it will begin to sprout.
During harvesting, the kushchevka is removed from the soil, laid out under a canopy to dry out. Then the dry tops are cut off, the nest is dismantled into bulbs.
Store crops in nets or ventilated boxes in a cool room
Another option for storing shallots is not to cut the leaves, but to weave them into braids. In this case, periodically you need to check the condition of the turnips, removing the rotten ones.
Conclusion
Onion Banana Giant has gained popularity among gardeners due to its unpretentiousness, universal application, high yields. The pleasant and piquant taste of the hybrid is noted even by gourmets. It may well replace onion varieties.
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