These vegetables fear wet ground.
This is the first advice from Jacky Mercier market gardener in Frontenay sur Dive (86). As with garlic, therefore, muddy or muddy soils are avoided, otherwise all other types of soil are suitable for planting onions.
How deep should the onion be pressed for it to take root?
Jacky Mercier’s response:
push it in with your finger, when it disappears: it’s good.
And we put fertilizer?
As for garlic: especially no nitrogen.
Potash and phosphoric acid are to be favored
in passing he gives us the name of his favorite fertilizer.
When will we eat these onions? In July or August, when the stem turns yellow, they must be removed from the earth, put in the shade to dry and when the tops are dry, they can be tied in bundles or braids, to be hung in attics or in the garage.