Spicy garlic cloves are needed in the preparation of various dishes and canning vegetables for the winter. Not to buy vegetables, many grow it yourself. For large, healthy bulbs need to know the secrets of the cultivation of garlic in the garden.
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The choice of varieties
All varieties of vegetable acute divided into spring and winter. The differences in the size of the heads and cloves, as well as planting dates:
- Spring varieties are planted in spring and harvested in late summer. Their bulb consists of many small cloves. When winter storage in a fresh garlic begins to grow in the middle of winter.
- Winter varieties are planted in late autumn, in the spring, they start to grow immediately after thawing of the soil. Vegetable has large bulbs with 6-10 teeth attached to the Donets with a rigid central stem. Keep head can be until spring.
Gardeners prefer to plant winter varieties due to the greater impact of harvest, cloves easy cleaning and good keeping quality of the bulbs.
secrets yield
When planting and cultivation of garlic have the following rules:
- It is impossible after planting vegetable other bulbous crops (onions, garlic spring, Rocambole) and Solanaceae (tomato, potato, etc.). Best predecessors - beans, cruciferous and pumpkin plants.
- Pay attention to soil preparation. Garlic does not fit tight heavy land which oxygen penetrates poorly. Before planting a bed prepared, if necessary, introducing sand and peat litter, ground loosening. Good results are obtained by the addition of sawdust and humus, compost, and so on. N. For planting garlic can not make fresh manure: this will cause the bulbs dry dark spots. To get a beautiful large bulbs, and need to reduce the acidity of the soil: 1 square. m. make 2 cups of chalk or dolomite, fly ash and so forth.
- The correct choice depends on the time of planting overwintering planting material. Planting garlic is necessary for 2-3 weeks until a frost. In the cold ground clove take root, but not proklyunetsya the surface. If planted early, sprouted copies freeze slightly.
- Planting material is taken from the last harvest cloves. The depth of embedment is 6-7 cm, regardless of size. The distance between adjacent plants must be at least 15 cm. After planting bed of mulched layer of sawdust or straw about 10 cm thick.
- After the snow mulching material should be removed from the ridge, the soil quickly thawed, and garlic has started to grow. When it proklyunetsya, mulch, if desired, recycled to the ridge: it will prevent the soil from drying out and the formation of a dense crust, reduce the number of weeds.
- In phase 3, the sheet feed recommended landing herbal infusion or solutions of mineral fertilizers (for bulbous crops, complex-type NPK formulations, Agricola, etc.). Per 1 square. m. consume 10 liters of water with diluted according to instructions drug. Infusion of herbs diluted in a ratio of 1:10.
- Garlic plantation should be watered, preventing drying of the soil. Watering is carried out, when dried out the top layer of the ridge (2-3 cm). Pereuvlazhnyat landing should not be.
- On winter garlic flower arrows appear. They need to break as soon as they looked over the top sheet. Decapitation promotes growth of follicles, and to miss the beginning of the formation of shoots undesirable.
- Clean the garlic when the leaves turn yellow by about 1/3 length. Overdo it in the garden do not need: the bulbs are falling apart, and the teeth begin to germinate. These vegetables are stored poorly.
At cultivation of garlic you can be sealed ridge podzimny sowing dill.
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