How to grow garlic

If you decide to grow garlic, you should know that cultural garlic can be of two subspecies: ordinary (non-stalking) and. Garlic is also winter and spring. Winter garlic planted in late September - early October and inmostly eat in summer and use for billets. Spring is planted in early spring and is used for storage for the winter (spring garlic is stored in its natural form better than winter wheat). For planting spring garlic It is necessary to choose the moment when the soil has already warmed up, but still contains enough moisture.

Garlic loves fertilized structural soil, rich in organic substances. Winter forms of garlic grow well on sandy loam soils, while spring ones prefer medium- and light-loamy soils. It is not necessary to plant garlic in the areas that retain thawed waters: Winter garlic will get wet, and spring will have to be planted later than it should.

Good predecessors for garlic are cabbage (early or colored), cucumbers, beans, bad potatoes and onions. It is not recommended to grow garlic on one plot for more than two years in a row, it can be planted in its original place no earlier than three to four years to avoid the accumulation of diseases and pests on the site.

A bed for planting winter garlic is cooked for about a month. Under the digging site for planting garlic should make fertilizer: 40 g of superphosphate and 10 g of potassium chloride per 1sq. m. m of soil or complex fertilizer. In order to increase the yield of garlic, it is possible to add compost or semi-fermented manure from the rate of about 5 kg per 1 sq. Km. m.

If you want, that you managed to grow garlic, it is necessary to approach responsibly to preparation of planting material. Usually in its role are the side buds of bulbs, in other words - cloves of garlic. Garlic for planting is selected according to the shape of the bulbs, the weight and the size of the teeth.

It is necessary to select large or medium bulbs (weight - from 3 to 6 g). Not suitable for planting large bulbs with 2-3 teeth. If in a large bulb there are external and internal teeth, only external ones are selected for planting.

It is important to remember that To grow garlic it is possible only from healthy teeth. You can not take a landing gear from plants,which were grown in areas infected with diseases or pests. Especially it is necessary to beware of the stem nematode. Before planting, the teeth are not cleaned from dry upper scales.

Before planting garlic, loosen and level the soil well, mark the rows. Width between rows for winter garlic is 40-45 cm, for spring garlic - 25-30 cm. Width between teeth in the row is 8-10 cm for both winter and spring forms of garlic. Winter garlic is planted to a depth of 8-10 cm for a better winter, and a spring is enough and 5 cm.

After planting garlic, if necessary, should be watered. Also it will be useful to thicken the beds with winter garlic humus or peat from the calculation of 2 buckets per 1 sq. km. m. This contributes to the fact that in the winter on the site will accumulate snow, due to which shoots in early spring will appear faster. The peat will have to be removed in the spring when the snow melts.

If the spring turned out to be arid, it is recommended to water garlic from time to time. Two weeks before harvest, watering should be stopped. In April and June, when the bulb is forming, it is necessary to carry out top dressing of garlic.

If you grow an arrow of garlic, in July you need to delete the arrows, because they can reduce yield. The arrows gently break out at the exit from the top sheet, pull them out and cut them off! By the way, you do not have to throw out arrows - you can pick them for the winter.

It is not enough to grow garlic, it is necessary not to spoil the time of harvest: If the bulbs stay in the ground for too long, they will begin to decay into the teeth. Winter garlic is removed in late July - early August, spring - 2-4 weeks later. If the summer is rainy, collect the garlic a little earlier and dry it in the shade.

Now you know, how to grow garlic. We hope our article will help you to get a good harvest.