HORT 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Daytime, Garlic, Loam
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Have a high sulphur content, which is why your eyes burn when you cut up onions. Bulb - a short, modi ed, underground stem surrounded by eshy modi ed leaves. The leaves emerge from attened conical basal stem. Bulbils - will form small shoots and roots. ** - crusting soil - if you have soil and a heavy rain, it will crust it. It forms a hard enough layer that the seedling can not emerge. If you add higher organic matter content it wont crust as much. You can seed in the fall time and let the seed sit over winter and germinate in the spring time. The more leaf area the larger the bulb. ** not all cultivars will grow well here, sone types have shorter daylight initiation. Put them in cold and dry storage or else they will go bad. Multiplier onion - a group of onions help together in a bulb.
