In order to be sure of the quality of garlic, it is better to grow it yourself and enjoy the taste, knowing that it does not contain any harmful additives. In order to get a generous harvest of your own garlic, you need to know some tricks.
Spring garlic can be stored for a long time, until the next harvest
Sectional spring garlic: small cloves, many of them. Garlic does not let the arrows.
Sectional winter garlic: large cloves on the stem. Productivity is good, but not stored for long.
What is the difference between spring and winter garlic?
Garlic can be of two types: spring and winter. The first is planted in the spring, in late April - early May, while winter crops, on the contrary, are sown in late autumn. Spring garlic is more difficult to grow and care for it requires more attention, however, it is more useful. In Japan, for example, residents use only this kind of vegetable.
Harvested spring garlic is stored much better than winter garlic. It can be stored even until the next harvest, which will allow you to have a healthy product yourself grown all year round. While the winter dries out in just a couple of months, even with proper storage.
Seat selection
Choosing the right place is an important point in growing quality garlic. One of the most important selection criteria is which plants were in the place where the garlic planting is currently planned.
So, it is best to plant it in the soil after legumes, cabbage, pumpkin or crops. In such a land, garlic will be enriched with useful substances that remained after these crops, and this will give it the opportunity to grow faster and give a larger crop.
We do not recommend planting the vegetable in the same place where it grew last year. You need to change position every time so that the plant receives enough nutrients from the soil and grows well.
The worst predecessors of spring garlic are potatoes, tomatoes and onions. Do not sow garlic in areas where these species have been planted before. Since he will not get all the vitamins necessary for growth, he will grow more slowly and remain small and tasteless.
If you choose a shaded area for garlic, you will get a lot of greenery, and a sunny place will give large and juicy heads of vegetables.
Garlic sowing dates
Spring species must be planted at the right time in order to get a high-quality and tasty product. The most suitable period for this is the beginning of spring.
It is necessary to start planting garlic when the air temperature becomes about 6 degrees. If you plant when it is already too warm on the street, the yield will be very small.
Also, the landing period depends on the location. The colder the region, the later they begin to plant a vegetable. However, it is important to pay attention to the temperature not only of the air, but also of the soil. You can start landing when it is from +3 degrees. This is already enough for the growth and development of the vegetable, since it is unpretentious in this regard. But if the temperature of the earth is from 8 degrees, then garlic will grow even better and develop more actively.
At a soil temperature of about 16, the crop will be small and of poor quality. Also, if you plant garlic so late, then its shelf life will decrease. Therefore, it is important not to be late, but not to plant the vegetable ahead of time.
Soil preparation
One and a half months before sowing, it is necessary to dig the soil. A day before the landing of the teeth, you need to do this again, as well as to loosen and level the top layer and be sure to remove all weeds. In addition, it is necessary to fertilize the soil. The choice of fertilizer depends on the soil in the area:
- If clay soil, mix 6 kilograms of humus and peat, 10 kilograms of river sand, 2 tablespoons of superphosphate and 1 teaspoon of urea.
- With loamy type for each sq. a meter needs 4 kg of humus mixed with a teaspoon of urea and 2 tablespoons of superphosphate.
- If the site is peaty soil, then for every square meter it is necessary to make a mixture of 6 kg of humus with 10 kilograms of river sand, a teaspoon of urea and two tbsp. l superphosphate.
- If the soil is sandy loam, then prepare a mixture of clay soil and humus in a 2: 1 ratio.
Fertilizers should not be buried too deep so that subsequently the roots of the plant can reach it.
Preparing planting material
The heads that you will plant can be stored in two versions before planting:
- cold storage;
- warm.
In the first version, the bulbs are stored at +3 degrees. In the second - the temperature reaches +20. The warm storage method speeds up the harvest time by about a month. But if you chose this method, then the garlic needs to be further prepared for planting. To do this, put it in a place where the air temperature is 2-3 ° C for three to four weeks.
Before planting, the heads should be treated in a special way. To do this, disassemble the garlic into the teeth and leave only medium and large in size, and remove the small ones completely, they are not suitable for planting. And then you should clean the appropriate cloves from the husk.
In order to increase the yield, experts advise soaking prepared cloves in plain water for 2 - 2.5 hours. After that, wrap them in a wet piece of cloth and put them in a bag, and then put them in the refrigerator for a couple of days. After this time, the garlic should appear roots.
In addition to this procedure, you can soak the teeth in a nitroammofoski solution (five grams per ten liters of water) for about 7 hours.
Landing
There are several types of planting material, each of which after planting and cultivation will yield a crop:
With teeth
In order to plant garlic in the spring with the help of the head, several rules should be observed:
- The distance between the rows should be about 25 cm. We place the garlic in the grooves.
- Between the teeth there should be about 10 cm of free space.
- Planting depth - 6 cm, place the garlic cloves exactly vertically, without tipping.
- Immediately after you have planted the garlic, you need to mulch the beds. For this, straw and sawdust made of wood are suitable.
- For a good harvest and development of a vegetable, you need to water and feed it.
Planting bulbs
Muffins are called garlic seeds. Planting in this way guarantees a good, healthy crop.
This method takes about two years. However, it is likely that you will get small heads of garlic with one clove in the first year.
Before planting the bulbs, they need to be wrapped in a newspaper and stored in a dark place at a temperature of about +20 degrees. 1.5 months before disembarkation (disembarkation is carried out in spring), turn the bulbs into the cold: you can put them in the refrigerator or wrap them in cloth and put them in snow. Before planting, remove them, dry, ventilate and hold for a couple of hours in a weak solution of potassium permanganate to remove all harmful bacteria.
Garlic should be planted in this way to a depth of about 4 cm, and there should be 15 centimeters between the bulbs. After planting in each hole, sprinkle the garlic with soil and level the soil. From above it is also desirable to mulch with straw or dry grass, as is the case with planting cloves.
After landing care
This type of garlic does not require special care. It needs only to be regularly watered, loosened, harvested weeds and fed.
Before the appearance of the heads of garlic, watering should be plentiful enough, then it decreases. During the rainy season and 14 days before the garlic is harvested, you do not need to water the plant.
Loosen the soil in order to prevent the appearance of weeds and remove the dried layer of the earth, which prevents the water from reaching the roots of garlic.
Among other things, garlic must be fertilized every 10 days during the growing season. Fertilizers at this time need potash and phosphorus. And during the formation of the teeth, garlic should be fed with infusion of mullein or litter: 1 kg per 10 liters of water is insisted for 4 days, and then the same amount of water is added.
Common mistakes
The most common errors when sowing can be called:
- Incorrect sowing time. Once the snow has melted, garlic should be planted until the soil has warmed up. If you are late with sowing, the yield will decrease by 2 times.
- Wrong place choice. Temperature changes are bad for spring garlic, so you should plant it in a place well-lit by the sun and make sure that there are no drafts. It is also wrong to plant garlic in a lowland, as water will stagnate there.
- Do not buy planting material in the store, since it is not known how long it was collected and how it was stored. In this case, you cannot be sure that you will get a good harvest of delicious garlic.
- Do not use small cloves for planting.
We learn from the video the secrets and subtleties of planting spring garlic in the spring - what should be the planting material, when and how to plant it correctly:
Planting spring garlic is quite simple and caring for it does not present any difficulties. It is only necessary to observe the rules of planting and take into account all the tricks, and then you will get a good harvest of delicious spring garlic. This means that your table will have vitamins all year round.