My parents the idea of landing a choice of garlic came up too late. It was easier to just grab a large and beautiful head of garlic and eat, and then mess around with trifles - landing.
Want a tasty and big - so it and leave for landing!
So, for 5-6 years, we have completely got rid of the little things and away the best. One clove is now possible to feed the whole family.
I always plant the (Central Russia) winter garlic.
How to grow a large garlic
Prepare beds
- I dug out, cleaned of wireworm or weeds, fertilize with manure or humus only your compost, and give settle. But if you want to learn how I get super-useful compost and very quickly, then you here.
- Before planting a flower bed watering solution of manganese or copper sulfate to prevent disease.
Good planting garlic where grown cabbage, pumpkin, beans, can be specially sown white mustard. And what neighbors on the beds are more beneficial for garlic, I already wrote earlier here. I also like to add river sand, may be in the groove, which will be planted garlic. The sand protects the earth and diseases, digging it easier, and most importantly it will be easier to take root.
Prepare garlic
- ¨ planting material needed to dry and ventilate;
- ¨ then select the most large, strong and undamaged head;
- ¨ disassemble the head, trying not to damage;
- ¨ handle fitosporin or soaked in a salt solution and manganese (any variant to enhance disease resistance and increase the shelf life).
When and how to plant
Plant in Central Russia better in October, a few weeks before the frost. At a depth of 5 to 7 cm, top shelter can be straw, leaves, humus. Locate the teeth from each other at a distance of 10 to 15 cm.
And there is a clever way to 2 to 1, and shelter and fertilizer: Sow rows of white mustard, and between the rows to plant our garlic. When the first snow falls, mustard greens will protect and warm, and in the spring to help retain moisture and will not allow weeds to grow.
When landing in any case not pressed cloves, pre-made hole in the ground. You can use the handle of a shovel or a thin bottle neck with a lid, to be laid teeth into their nests.
Expanding the garlic into the wells, sprinkle on top of the ash and the ground (you can just rake).
Instead of expensive fertilizer use manure (Rich in nitrogen), and ash (Rich in potassium).
What is the use of garlic
For planting before winter should be used only winter garlic from the spring (spring), it is different:
- ° presence dense stem (arrows) in the center of the head;
- ° teeth often arranged in a single layer;
- ° color purple or white with purple veins.
The largest, and maturation of resistant varieties, cultivated Russian gardeners: Lyubasha, Spas, Sophia, Moscow Region and Belorussia. Now you have seen that it is not difficult! But their secrets how to keep your garlic permanently Fresh, juicy and flavorful I have shared here.