Garlic is indispensable for many dishes that are familiar to us, marinades, and canning; they also use it for the treatment and prevention of seasonal colds. There are also many recipes for traditional medicine to improve immunity, improve heart function, cleanse and rejuvenate the body. Not bad for all these purposes to have grown on your own bed, and not purchased garlic.
Important! Garlic predecessors - cucumbers, legumes, early potatoes, lettuce, cauliflower and white cabbage, pumpkin, eggplants, green manure. Do not plant garlic after tomatoes and onions.
Basics of growing garlic: what does a crop need to grow
When planting garlic in the fall, they always expect to get a good harvest. - higher than in the spring planting, expect larger garlic bulbs, with large even teeth, with a more pronounced taste and smell.
Garlic likes open, slightly elevated, dry, with good drainage and light areas. It grows best on chernozem or loamy soils with low (pH 6.5 and below) acidity.
Land for planting garlic should be dug in advance and rather fertilized. As the experience of gardeners shows, it is impossible to plant garlic in the winter correctly if the soil is not prepared in advance. Prepare the soil for 1.5-2 months before sowing. Both organic and mineral supplements are used as fertilizers. So, on 1 square. m take 1 bucket of liquid mullein, humus, manure or 25-30 g of superphosphate, then dug up to a depth of 30 cm and cover the area with a covering material or film.
Important! It is impossible to use saltpeter as a fertilizer in the fall. It applies only to spring dressings.Immediately before planting, the bed is well leveled, smashing all lumps, and zasorazhivayut. Lay, keeping the distance between the rows of at least 20 cm, grooves-grooves of a depth of 8-10 cm, moisturize them, and stick chives in the ground with a gap of 7-10 cm from each other. They are covered with earth, slightly tamping, and mulched - with straw, sawdust, peat, a mixture of sand and ash. Next, the planted garlic will safely hibernate under a layer of fallen snow and start to grow in spring.
Did you know? Garlic withstands sub-zero temperatures of 20-25 ° C and does not need shelter in a snowy winter. But if the winter has little snow and the frost alternates with thaws, then it is worthwhile to cover the garden with spruce leaves, agrospan.
Benefits of planting winter garlic in the fall
Planting garlic in the fall is preferable to spring, because the crop is more abundant, and the garlic heads are larger. Also, planting winter garlic in the fall gives a uniform distribution of garlic cloves in the head around the circumference - this is typical of all winter varieties of garlic. Spring (spring) varieties have small teeth and are arranged chaotically. In addition, if we sow garlic before winter, then we save time in spring, thereby having the opportunity to plant other crops.
Choosing the best time for planting winter garlic
The question of how many plant garlic, a clear answer is not available. There is no specific date and to what number they plant garlic - here, first of all, you need to focus on whether it is early autumn this year or late. This is what influences the timing of planting garlic before winter.
Important! Too early planting of garlic leads to premature sprouting and poor yields, and delayed - to poor rooting and the death of crops.Also always take into account the region and / or country of residence. For example, when it is time to plant winter garlic in Russian Yekaterinburg, this does not coincide with the time when it is necessary to plant garlic for the winter in Ukraine (almost the entire territory) - because of the difference in climate. But the average strip of Russia is similar to Ukraine in terms of climate, respectively, and the dates, which are around the same time they plant garlic before winter, will be almost the same.
We will decide when we can start planting garlic for the winter. Depending on the weather, numbers vary from early October to early November. There is a main rule: soil temperature should be no higher than +12 ° C, so you need to wait for it to fall to this point, after which you can plant garlic before winter.
Did you know? Special sowing lunar calendars are issued for each year, according to which you can consult with the planting date of any garden crop, including garlic.
Features of the choice of planting material: the best varieties and external signs for selection
When winter garlic is planted, it is the cultivar that pays attention. it must be winter-hardy. Select the most suitable chives.
We plant garlic for the winter of the following varieties - Alkor, Bashkir 85, Dobrynya, Podmoskovny, Komsomolets, Sofiyevsky, Lyubasha, Spas (shooter varieties), Doctor, Novosibirsk, Shirokolistny 220 (not shot).
Selected for planting the largest bulbs, without damage, signs of disease. Parted cloves - just before boarding, allowed 1-2 days before disembarking, but not earlier. Teeth are selected with a mass of 6-9 g, but it is permissible to plant and medium in size - 3-5 g, smaller teeth are not suitable.
These are simple recommendations on when to plant garlic in the fall and why. We wish you a rich harvest!
