--- Get a bulb of onion and slice it in a circled form.
--- Get an empty water Can, cut it to the size of onion bulb. Fill the Can with clean water.
--- Cover the Can water with the sliced onion and ensure that the root side is touching the water.( if the root is too much you can quietly trim down the roots). Ensure that it gets sunlight.
--- Allow it for at least two days, you will find out that new roots are sprouting.
---Still allow for another 9 days, within this time, the leaves will start growing, ready for transplanting.
--- By then, you must have prepared your ground well manured to receive the transplant.
--- As you transplant, the onions will not go deep into the ground otherwise it will die. Just cover gently the roots and sliced part holding the growing leaves.
--- Allow it to grow untill about 40 days, at end of which you gently uproot the growing onions, at this crucial time, you carefully separate them one by one. Where it is hard to separate, use knife to make separation easier.
--- Then plant the separated onion one by one, after which you water.
--- Then allow to grow till about 3 months or more, during which it will be ready for harvest.
--- Remember this process is to help you get many produce from one bulb of onion and make the onion grow bigger in size.
Nota bene: There are many other ways one can plant the onions though the result may not actually be the same.But which ever way, you will get something. Period of cultivating may also differ, but preferably between April to July.
From
Fr Damian Ogwatta
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