English translation of the original Spanish article. Read the original
Written manual and with photos.
Now that we have a little more time, we can further develop the pending topics that we had and the star topic is Calçot. After talking about planting distances,, today we will talk about how to plant it. With the traditional and homemade method. One day I'll show how it is done on a larger scale. For now, we need these “ingredients” :
First we will have to make the dirt furrows, whose soil we will later use to earth up the calçots.
Once done, we take all the onions and cut off the head or the top part because this really speeds up the emergence of leaves and new shoots.
When we have everything well prepared we mark the holes where we will place the onions.
The placement of the onion must be with the part where the root was previously on the bottom and the cut at the top.
We place all the onions with the desired distance
And we water.
Now within the deadline one or two weeks we will see the first green shoots. Easy eh!
If you fancy growing something on your balcony next year, it may not be the prettiest plant, but 10 onion bulbs could give you a calçotada. Fun huh!
Notes:
- If when you cut the onion the inside eye is brown – black, it means that the onion is older and nothing will come out.
- Irrigation in large areas is done with sprinklers to save more water, although in small areas the sprinkler can also be used. :
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