Many summer residents, recently began to grow garlic, storage becomes a torture: most collected from the beds head deteriorates after a few weeks, losing trade dress, and becomes unusable food. The quality and safety of vegetables is influenced not only the conditions of their growth, but also the timeliness of harvest. Relieve farmers of most of the problems associated with insufficient keeping quality bulbs, will help the secrets of cleaning garlic, which are eager to share experienced growers.
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Periods of harvesting the bulbs
The time interval between ripeness and overripe garlic is a few days, so novice gardeners concerned about the issue of determining the harvest time. How do I know that the bulbs are ripe, they do not know why there are cases when a large part after digging is not tight head, and breaks up into individual teeth. This suggests that garlic overripe.
Overexposed in the land of the bulbs are not suitable for long term storage. Teeth with them can be used as seed material, germination but it will be less. If you head for a long time were in the over-wetting the soil, there is a high probability of decay: it could happen in summer with heavy rains or when too frequent watering (it should be stopped no later than 15-20 days before digging).
The main outward signs of ripe garlic:
- dried up over the neck of the bulb roots;
- clear-cut, tight-fitting to each other under the teeth preserves the integrity of the shell;
- staining in reddish hues.
Crop varieties are divided into:
- Spring.
- Winter.
They are planted at different times. Different varieties and harvesting dates, which may depend on factors such as local climatic conditions and the precocity of garlic. It's time to collect winter crops in temperate latitudes occurs in mid-July and ends in early August. In the southern regions of the spring comes in right before, and the leaves of garlic makes its way out of the ground in March. It can be collected at the end of June. Spring varieties begin to clean up at the end of August. Harvest continues until mid-September. On rainy harvest season begins earlier.
Guided by said time periods should only be approximate. To be more precise about the readiness for harvest bulbs can be seen on the leaves and arrows. All spring cultivars are nestrelkuyuschimsya, so their maturity is determined by the yellowing and wilting of foliage general. Likewise manifest themselves nestrelkuyuschiesya winter varieties.
To determine readiness for harvest of winter crops arrows must be as stems. Usually they break out, but it would be more correct to leave on a bed every few arrows. Cracking is covered on inflorescences signal for digging bits. Those who want to obtain garlic seeds, it is necessary to wait for the aging aerial bulblets.
How to remove the garlic?
Vegetables harvested in good weather. It is desirable that it has lasted for a few days after harvest. Garlic dig up a shovel or pitchfork, clear of the ground, and without removing the leaves, left to dry in the garden for 5 days. When the rains came, the bulb continue to dry under the roof in conditions of good ventilation.
In the rainy season, digging plants spend 2 weeks earlier than usual. It is advisable to start work within a few hours after the rainfall (in the afternoon or evening), giving the soil time to dry. Bulbs gently clean off the ground with his hands. Rinse off with water is impossible, since This will worsen the keeping quality of garlic.
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