Watering onions with cold water

Onions are one of the main crops grown in every home garden. The vegetable contains a large amount of vitamins, strengthens the immune system and enables the body to resist any infection. Recently, due to climate change, it has become more difficult to grow onions: very often they grow poorly or even begin to rot in the soil.

There can be many reasons for this. One of them is improper watering. Many people wonder if cold water can be used to water onions. We will give an answer to this question in the article.

Experts categorically do not recommend using cold water for irrigating onions. None of the currently existing onion species - neither sets, nor leeks, nor onions - accept it. This is a shock to any plant. It is dangerous for young bulbs that have just sprouted from the ground, which are still very weak.

Today, opinions are divided about watering onions. Someone believes that the culture is absolutely not important with what water it will be watered, while others, on the contrary, are categorically against the use of cold running water or water from a well for irrigation.

So, let's see why irrigation with ice water is so dangerous for onions.

• The plant slows down in growth.
• Its normal functioning is disrupted, which is caused by shock through temperature imbalance.
• In cold soil, worms and microorganisms do not live, which in the soil are engaged in the processing of plant residues, thereby allowing the plant to absorb all the necessary nutrients.
• The amount of nitrogen required for proper growth and formation of a good bulb is reduced in supercooled soil.
• The plant is subject to various diseases. Most often this is rot, which damages the bulb itself. Subsequently, the arrows of the culture begin to change, they turn yellow. If you do not react in time, the plant will die.
• Immunity decreases, the number of pests increases.

There were no positive aspects from irrigating the plant with cold running water. But there are experts who argue that if the onion can be planted in the ground even in late autumn, and it germinates in the spring, even though it is under the snow, then nothing bad will happen to it from watering with cold water. Of course, there are different varieties of onions, but it is still better to use settled liquid.

If it so happens that you do not have settled water for irrigation, and the soil already needs moisture, use cold running water. In this case, it is imperative to adhere to the following recommendations.

• Watering in the evening. This will make it possible to balance the temperature difference, and the plant will not feel as much discomfort.
• Do not root the onion. It is best to water the soil between the rows.
• Never water with cold water when it is very hot outside. This imbalance can lead to burns and disease.

You can use running water to irrigate the crop no more than once a week.

The ideal option would be to purchase a small barrel or any other container in which it will be possible to settle water for some time for watering both onions and other garden plants that are "afraid" of cold water.Today on the market there is a wide selection and assortment of various containers, which differ in both volume and cost.