Onions are used in every kitchen, as this vegetable is included in the recipes for most main dishes. After peeling the onion, onion peel remains, which most people throw away because they do not know that it can be used in various fields, from the treatment of diseases by prescription traditional medicine, in cosmetology, before preparation from onion peel infusions, decoctions, which are used as a fertilizer for plants and protect them from pests and diseases. In this article, you will learn how to use onion peel when growing indoor plants and vegetables in the garden.
Onion is known for its antimicrobial action, it contains phytoncidal substances, which, as orderlies, inhibit the development of pathogens, fungi and bacteria, so onion peel infusions are effective against many plant diseases.
In the fight against plant pests, onion peel serves as a repellent drug, since its infusion has a specific smell. Spraying plants with a decoction of onion peel will help get rid of spider mite, thrips, aphids on plants.
How do you know in onion many different macro and micro elements, and in the dried outer scales their concentration is maximum. When preparing a decoction or infusion of onion peel, all useful substances dissolve in water, such a solution will be an excellent top dressing for vegetable plants and flowers.
is an safe means for a person. Since the infusion does not contain toxic substances, they can be sprayed with houseplants or vegetables and flowers in the garden without using protective equipment and without worrying about environmental pollution.
The use of onion peel in indoor floriculture.
A decoction of onion peel is an affordable and cheap fertilizer for indoor plants. A decoction implies that water with dry onion peel is heated to boiling, so as quickly as possible all substances from the product pass into water, so it will take less time to prepare this remedy. You can use a decoction of onion peel immediately after it has cooled. Since the concentration of substances in the broth is maximum, it is diluted with water.
To prepare a small amount of broth, pour a handful of onion peels with 1 liter of water, put on fire and bring to a boil, turn off the boil after 2-3 minutes. Cool the solution and strain. For spraying indoor plants, dilute the onion peel decoction with water in a ratio of 1:2, and for watering as a top dressing, 1:5.
Infusion means that the solution is infused for several days so that all useful substances dissolve in water. To prepare the infusion, 2 handfuls of dry onion peel are poured into 1.5 liters of cold or warm water and insist two or three days. Infusion for spraying plants and top dressing is diluted clean water, as well as a decoction. If you pour boiling water over the onion peel, then you can insist it for a day and then apply it.
You should not store the infusion and decoction of onion peel, as it quickly deteriorates, begins to smell unpleasant and loses all its beneficial properties.
Spraying houseplants with a solution of onion peel will help revive them, this procedure will replace foliar top dressing and serve as a preventive measure against insect pests.
When watering indoor plants with a solution of onion peel, the earth in the pot is saturated with nutrients, and the earth is also disinfected from fungal diseases, pests, mold and plaque on the surface.
When growing seedlings at home, onion peel will help you cope with many troubles. Crops and young shoots need a warm and humid atmosphere, but such conditions are favorable for the development of a dangerous “black leg” seedling disease, when young shoots literally die before our eyes. An infusion or decoction of onion peel will help save seedlings from the "black leg". After preparing this remedy according to the recipe described above, spray seedlings and soil with it every 3-5 days. An onion skin remedy will suppress fungal diseases and nourish the young sprouts, the seedlings will grow healthy and strong.
The use of onion peel in the garden.
Onion peel in the garden it is used in large volumes, so it can be stored all winter, and in the spring it can be applied when digging the earth. Onion peel will cleanse the earth of many dangerous diseases, the pathogens of which remain in the soil - this powdery mildew, phytophthora, and will also scare away many soil pests, serve as a baking powder and fertilizer for the soil.
If your garden is inhabited by such soil pests as wireworm, beetle, then use onion peel to get rid of them. When planting potato tubers, planting seedlings of vegetables and flowers, throw a handful of dry onion peel into the planting holes, it will protect the tubers and roots of young plants from soil pests at first, and then, decomposing, nourish the plants like fertilizer.
For use in the garden, an infusion of onion skins is usually prepared in large volume . For 10 liters of water, you will need half a bucket of dry onion peel. Infuse the solution for three days dark place, on the fourth day the solution is filtered. For watering plants as a top dressing, an infusion of onion peel is diluted 1 to 5, watered 2 liters per plant, and for spraying 1 to 2.
You can quickly prepare an infusion of onion peel using hot water. Dry onion peel with a volume of 1 liter, pour 10 liters hot water and insist about 12 hours. This solution can not be diluted for spraying plants, and for the duration of its action, a small piece of laundry soap is dissolved in it.
Plants are sprayed with infusion of onion peel to protect them from spider mites, aphids, thrips, fleas, various butterflies and flies. The specific smell of onion peel will repel all flying pests.
If you notice that the leaves of cucumbers have begun to turn yellow and wither, spraying with infusion of onion peel will help return the plants to their former healthy look, since this tool will not only serve disinfectant from many diseases and pests, but also as a foliar top dressing.
To protect carrots from such dangerous pest like a carrot fly, use an infusion of onion skins. Spray the tops of the plants with the prepared product and water the beds every week.
An infusion of onion peel is used to disinfect the earth in greenhouses and greenhouses. Spill the soil with this tool a few days before planting.
The use of onion skins in the garden will help you save money by not having to buy fertilizers and pesticides, and will also allow you to grow an environmentally friendly crop.
For treatment of various diseases in plants since ancient times, onion skins have been used. And now you will not surprise anyone with this - in various publications you can find many references to recipes for treating plants using onion peel. And it does not matter where they grow, on the windowsill or in the garden.
Infusion of onion peel for indoor plants
If you notice that indoor flowers began to look unimportant - do not worry. Just do infusion of onion peel and water them. Before your eyes, the flowers will begin to “come to life”.
The elixir of a good flower mood is very easy to make. Place a handful of husks in an enameled container for one and a half liters of hot water. Put it on the fire and boil for no more than 5-7 minutes. After removing from heat, leave the broth to infuse for two hours. At the end, it remains to strain the infusion and cool.
No wonder flower growers with experience advise at least once a month to use an infusion of onion peel for spraying plants and the surface layer of the soil. This is done both for antiseptic prophylaxis and for the purpose of fertilizing the soil with microelements, of which there are a huge amount in such an infusion. But you need to know and remember - you can not store an infusion of onion peel. Therefore, it should always be used for processing and watering the soil and plants only freshly prepared.
Watering with a decoction (infusion) of onion peel
Onion peel, as noted above, has disinfecting properties and contains a lot of microelements useful for plants. Adding it to the soil in the spring before planting seedlings increases not only the resistance of plants to various diseases but also productivity! To summarize, then decoction of onion peel is one of the most effective means for gardeners and gardeners in the fight for the health and fertility of plants.
For example, if suddenly your cucumber leaves turn yellow, it will help infusion of onion skins prepared according to the following very simple recipe different from that used for indoor flowers only the volume of the infused solution.
A few “good” handfuls of onion peel are poured with heated water in an enameled bucket, which we put on fire and bring to a boil. Then leave the broth to steam under the lid until it cools. The resulting concentrate can only be drained and as a result we get an effective remedy not only for healing cucumbers, but also for use on carrot and tomato beds to increase productivity.
Also, an infusion of onion peel is very effective tool fight against all kinds pests and diseases, delivering a lot of problems to gardeners and gardeners. Take, for example, such common plant enemies as aphids, spider mites and thrips. You can, of course, fight them with the help of various "chemistry", but it will undoubtedly be the best if you use the right and environmentally friendly remedy - an infusion of onion peel. The simplicity of its preparation and the cheapness of raw materials - gardeners always have onion peel - makes such a medicine truly popular and competitive with store-bought poisons.
We take a bucket of onion peel and pour hot water. You need two buckets of water. We insist this mixture for five days, strain it and add a little laundry soap to the finished infusion - approximately two grams per liter of infusion. This killer concentrate for pests must be diluted in a ratio of one to two before use, after which it can already be sprayed on plants. Where you need to spend tens of liters of expensive "chemistry", it is quite possible to cope with three liters of our onion remedy.
Onion peel against aphids. But what to do when the aphid just “sticks”? You can quickly deal with her by preparing an “onion grief” for her. For ten liters of hot water, add about two hundred grams of onion peel and insist this mixture for 15 hours. Then, with a filtered - but not diluted - infusion, we will process the plants occupied by aphids.
Infusion of onion peel will help gardeners in the fight against various fungal diseases on their acres. Let's take the black leg. This disease is caused by an invisible fungus and creates a huge problem for summer residents. A common antifungal recipe involves the use of potassium permanganate at the rate of 3 g per 1 liter of water. This solution is prescribed to treat the soil infected with the fungus. But in conditions where potassium permanganate has become scarce, it is better than onion poison for these fungi, and there is nothing to look for.
It is also very easy to prepare. Pour a good handful of onion husks with one liter of boiling water and insist this mixture for no more than a day. Then we filter and spray the affected beds with the resulting environmentally friendly antifungal drug. This should be done up to three times a day for several weeks, taking a break every 6 days. The infusion not only restores the microflora and kills harmful fungi, but also nourishes the soil with useful trace elements.
Shrubs can be treated in the same way, fruit trees and the ground underneath.
And if you leave a bucket of onion infusion in greenhouses and hotbeds - while occasionally spraying beds with plants with the help of an ordinary broom - you can completely get rid of any fleas, aphids and midges.
A nutritious and very cheap fertilizer is onion peel for the garden, the use of which regularly allows you to grow a rich crop of berries, vegetables, and fruits, and even protect the site from all kinds of pests.
Useful properties of onion peels for a vegetable garden or garden
This raw material for the preparation of nutritional formulations contains a record amount of minerals and a wide range of vitamins. Nutrient compositions based on onion peel strengthen plants, protect against the appearance of insects and also various diseases.
Contains many:
- Carotene, which is the most powerful antioxidant for the garden.
- Phytoncides that protect plants from bacteria and insects.
- Vitamins B, especially needed for seedlings.
- Vitamins PP, which improve root formation.
These are the main trace elements that are contained in compositions based on onion peelings. But there are many more in the composition. useful substances helping vegetables, berries and trees to be strong and bear fruit well.
What diseases are onion peels effective against?
The use of onion peel contributes reliable protection site from many, sometimes plant-destroying diseases. When growing seedlings, young plants are very often affected by the black leg. Available in gardening stores huge selection poisonous, very dangerous chemicals to fight the leg, but many gardeners prefer natural natural remedies. It is very simple to prevent the appearance of a leg - before sowing the seeds, crushed cleanings are buried in the soil.
A very dangerous disease of cucumbers is downy dew. The disease can appear at any stage of plant development. In preventive measures, it is necessary to spray the plantings with a decoction of the husk after 5 days.
Tomato plantings are threatened by cancer, which can be prevented by spraying and pouring bushes with infusion of cleanings. It also serves excellent feeding tomatoes.
Pest control
The use of onion peels is very effective in the fight against insects attacking the garden. The composition of raw materials does not contain nitrates, which makes it absolutely safe.
Onion peel has been used as a fertilizer since ancient times. Unlike minerals, it not only does not negative impact on agricultural plants, and even vice versa, increases the quantitative and qualitative indicators of their productivity.
Composition
Onion peel contains many useful substances and trace elements, such as carotene, phytoncides, various salts, as well as a certain amount of B vitamins, ascorbic acid and tocopherol. Thanks to such a rich composition, the husk not only disinfects crops, but also provides them with the necessary nutrients.
It also contains a specific substance - quercetin. Especially a lot of it in red varieties of onions. Quercetin belongs to the flavonoids, which are obtained only from plants. It has a positive effect not only on the human body, but also on garden plants.
Beneficial features
A decoction of onion peels has a beneficial effect on the roots of most crops, providing anti-inflammatory, restorative and immunostimulating effects. It strengthens and accelerates the growth of the root system.
Also suitable for soil application. Phytoncides in the husk protect the soil from pests and improve its structure. The soil becomes looser. The decoction is well suited for use in areas where garden plants are grown every year. It can be used to feed potatoes, tomatoes, bell pepper, cucumbers. It will be useful to water strawberries and houseplants with this decoction.
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The husk can "revive" sluggish and yellowing leaves of crops growing in open ground, as well as flowers that are cultivated indoors. The main condition is that only a decoction can be used.
The use of onion peel for garden plants
There are several ways to use a decoction of the husk on suburban area. Each of them has different purposes.
Onion peel fertilizer
Decoction for watering seedlings
This method involves the use of onion husks during planting seedlings. A small amount of it is placed on the bottom of the hole in which they plant young plant. The husk will protect it from diseases and pests, and the yield will increase. She is also able to restore the yellowing leaves of cucumbers, tomatoes and zucchini.
The preparation of this decoction is very simple. For 10 liters of water give 4 cups of dried onion peel. Next, the mixture is boiled, covered with a lid and left for several hours. Since the infusion is highly concentrated, it must be diluted before watering the plants. To 10 liters of ordinary water give 2 liters of infusion. The resulting solution is sprayed with a green mass of vegetables. The same infusion can be used for yellowing carrot and potato leaves.
Decoction to kill spider mites and thrips
This recipe allows you to prepare an infusion that helps fight spider mites and thrips. To make it you need to take: 1 liter of dried onion peel and 2 liters of tepid water. This mixture is boiled, tightly covered with a lid and left for 2 days. After this time, the infusion is filtered and it is ready for use. Often they are sprayed with leaves of garden plants. To do this, add 2 liters of ordinary water to 2 liters of infusion. For a better effect, a small amount of liquid soap can be added to the solution.
Watering agricultural plants with such an infusion is used to destroy fungi. Cultures are watered with infusion of onion peel 2-3 days in a row, in the evening. Then take a week break, and repeat the procedure.
Infusion to get rid of aphids
Aphids are miniature midges that settle mainly on the leaves of plants. Depending on the number of aphids, it can significantly damage crops, up to their death. To fight, you can use an infusion of onion peel. It is very easy to prepare. For 10 liters of water, give 200 grams of husk, boil and infuse for 15-20 hours. The resulting concentrated infusion is sprayed on the affected plants.
Also, this solution can be sprayed with vegetable crops growing in greenhouses. This will be the best preventive measure against the appearance of aphids.
The use of decoction for indoor plants
Flowers on the windowsills will turn green after fertilizing them with this infusion. It is able to saturate indoor plants with nutrients and vitamins. Also, an infusion of onion peel will protect flowers from various pests and pathogens.
The decoction is used for spraying and watering plants. The leaves are sprayed with a household spray bottle. When watering, 50-100 grams of infusion is poured under each flower.
To prepare such decoctions, take 200 grams of husk and pour it with 2 liters of water. Boil for 10 minutes, cover with a lid and leave to cool. Cool infusion is ready to use.
Such a simple method helps not only to destroy pests, but also accelerates the growth and development of various crops. Ordinary onion waste significantly improves the condition of the plants and increases the yield.
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Onion peel is the most affordable and indispensable assistant from pests for the amateur gardener. Aphids, caterpillars, scoops, leeches, common earwigs, meadow bugs, spider mites, suckers and codling moths - and this is not the whole list of pests of garden and garden plants, from which onion peel infusion helps.
Onion peel kills pathogenic microflora in the soil, due to its bactericidal action. A decoction and infusion of onion peels stimulate the growth of plants, making them more resistant to diseases, and also repels pests.
Onion peel in the form of an infusion is used to spray apple trees to get rid of pests such as aphids, codling moths, spider mites and suckers. Spray apple trees twice after flowering with an interval of 7 days.
200 grams of onion peel is poured with 10 liters of warm water and infused for 5 days, filtered and used to spray plants from pests, 2-3 times in five days against aphids, thrips, spider and strawberry mites, apple sucker, codling moth, herbivorous bugs, caterpillars, scoop.
Onion peel is very effective in controlling aphids on vegetable crops, the infusion is prepared as follows: fill the floor of the bucket with onion peel, pour hot water to the top, leave for a day, strain, then dilute with water (1: 2). The same infusion of onion peel can also be used to combat the Colorado potato beetle on eggplant and potatoes. Many summer residents put a handful of husks in the hole when planting tomatoes, cabbage, potatoes. This helps against the invasion, and even the Colorado potato beetle. Beetles cannot stand the smell of onion skins.
Infused onion peel helps to protect against houseplant pests, such as aphids: 20 g of onion peel is infused in 1 liter of water for five days. Spray the plants twice. Repeated spraying is carried out after five to seven days.
Infused onion peel is also used for washing indoor plants, cleaning them from spider mites: In a liter glass jar pour 20 g of husk with water and insist for a day. Then strain the liquid and rinse the plant thoroughly with it, especially bottom side leaves. After a day, the leaves must be washed with clean water.
Also, onion peel is rich in vitamins A and B. Therefore, spraying the leaves of plants with infusion, you not only protect them from pests, but also increase immunity. For plant nutrition, an infusion of onion peel is used - 10 g per 5 liters of boiling water.
Onion peel will protect the crop during storage. Root crops will not be affected by fungal diseases if, before storing, they are powdered with chopped onion peel.
Try it and see for yourself that onion peel in a summer cottage will bring great benefits to plants as a fertilizer that stimulates growth, as protection against pests without the use of chemicals, and will also increase disease resistance.