Botanical name: Allium cepa
Stackonion
Healing power:
-The ethereal öl of the onion functions antiseptically,
- it controls the increase of bacteria,
- battles infections.
- It lowers the blood sugar level and is used
- for internal purificaton.
- Onionöl reduces glants activity and
- is an aphrodisiakum.
- It is used for respiratory disease,
- gout,
- rheumatism,
- intestinal parasits,
- corpulence.
Onions help against skin disease like
- bofils and abscesses.
- Onions even promote grow of hair.
- The ingredient Quercetin is said to reduce in high concentration intestine polyps, which can cause cancer of the intestine.
Application:
- Onions you eat raw, cooked, steamed or pickled.
Propagation:
Onions normally are biennial. In the second year they produce on a stem a spherical inflorescense with white or rose petals, out of which is growing the seed.
One exception you find at the stackonion. It gets instead of the inflorences little bulbs, which can be planted.
Onions are growd out of seeds or bulbs.
Bulbs you buy in a specialist shop or you grow them by yourself out of seed. For that you sow the seed in march, in july you dig the little bulbs. The overwintering for the bulbs has to be dry and cool. In next march you plant them in a distance between 10 to 15 cm and in rows in a distance between 20 to 25 cm. They should be pressed on flat and tight in the bed.
The seed you sow 1 cm deep in a row distance of about 25 cm. Later the young plants have to be separated to a distance of 5 cm.
There are also winterbulbs. These you plant in a bed at the end of September, cover them against frost and dig it already in march.
The big onions used as vegetable, which need a very long time to grow,at the beginning have to be grown indoors.
After about 8 weeks the little plants have to be seperated and have to be planted outdoors after the end of frost.You plant them in a distance of 25 cm.
Decription of the plant:
The Onion belongs to the liliies. In the kitchen you use bulbs as well as leaves. There are onions with different spiciness and with white, brown, yellow, violet and red skin. The site to grow should be sunny.
The onion needs a humus and loose-packed ground. A bed with fresh dung and build-up of water it doesn´t like.
Onions grow well in the neighbourhood of cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, dill and strawberries.
They grow worth in the neighbourhood of cabbage, beens and peas.
You have to dig onions, when the green leaves change into yellow colour. Then they have to be hanged up for drying.
Onionflies and greenflies are pests, which affect onions. Typical diseases are mildew and grey mold.
Ingredients:
quercetin, a flavonoid
sulfurous, ethereal öl
vitamins
minerals
