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Do you love spring onions with butter and fresh bread? Would you like to enjoy their taste all year long without having to buy them? The best way to have onions year-round is to grow them at home and without substrate. It sounds interesting, but it works. This method ensures a year-round harvest of onions. This green vegetable is not only delicious but also healthy and packed with many nutrients. Moreover, it can help you with many ailments. Unfortunately spring onions are expensive in stores and full of chemicals, pesticides and so on. If you grow them at home, they certainly won’t contain pesticides.
First, a little about the spring onion
Spring onions are rich in vitamins and minerals. They contain vitamin C, B2, B1, A and K. In addition to these vitamins they also contain copper, magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, potassium, chromium, manganese and a larger amount of fiber. Furthermore they are a strong source of antioxidants and help support human health. For example, they support healthy bones, because just 12 grams of spring onion stalks contains nearly 20 micrograms of vitamin K, which means 16% of the recommended daily intake for an adult. They also help maintain healthy eyes thanks to the vitamin A they contain. In people who do not get enough vitamin A in their diet, night blindness or other vision disorders can develop. It is certainly worth mentioning that spring onion contains 24 micrograms of vitamin A in the form of the provitamin carotenoid. That means it is an amount of 2.6% of the recommended daily intake for men and 3.4% for women. Furthermore it will help you maintain a healthy heart, regulate blood sugar levels, support the immune system, lower blood pressure, protect against infections, lower cholesterol and more.
What you will need to grow spring onions
- Small bulbs
- A strong plastic bag
- Sawdust
Pour the sawdust into a bowl or plate and moisten it with water. Now put a few handfuls of sawdust into the bag and cut off the tips of the bulbs. Place the trimmed part into the sawdust. If you don’t have sawdust at home, you can use toilet paper, but sawdust will be more effective. Now you have everything ready and you can tie the bag, which you then place in a bright spot, for example on a windowsill. When the sawdust begins to dry out, moisten it again, but be careful not to make it too wet, because the sawdust and the bulbs could start to mold. Very soon you can enjoy juicy spring onions; this is a quick method for growing your own onions.
