Looking to grow an Apple-sized Garlic? I am telling the secret that Grandma told me

My grandmother always had a good harvest of garlic, and the heads were the size of an apple. She shared with me her secrets, which I want to tell you too.

I always plant garlic in winter, at the end of September - at the beginning of October, so that it can take root before the first frost. Do not let the garlic sprout, or it may freeze.

The main recommendations for growing large garlic are:

· Choose the right place for garlic. The site should be open and sunny with loose soil. As a top dressing in the fall, I fertilize the soil with "green manure". This is the name of cut peas, buckwheat, oats, clover.

They need to be mowed before the seeds ripen, dried and watered with mineral concentrate;

· The quality of the planting material is especially important. Choose large heads of garlic. The larger they are, the more likely it is to harvest large and healthy heads of garlic;

Plant each clove no deeper than 3-4 cm, keeping a distance of 10 cm between them;

· It is necessary to take into account the acidity of the soil. Garlic loves fertile soil with low acidity. On the advice of my grandmother, in order to neutralize the acidity, I add ash or dolomite flour to the soil in the fall. I bring it in dry, scatter it in the aisle and plow it;

· A very important nuance: it is necessary to fertilize the soil a week before planting. And not all ash is useful. Its quality and composition depends on the type of material that was burned. Ash is a source of minerals such as potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium.

But plants cannot get nitrogen from ash, it evaporates when burned, so ash alone will not be enough;

· I was convinced that the complex dry food for plants "Amix" gives a good effect for the growth of garlic. It is a substrate rich in all the necessary components for garlic;

· When arrows appear on garlic, they must be removed. This is because they take up nutrients and the garlic will not be large;

· It is important to change landing sites. Do not plant garlic in the same area. After 2-3 years, you need to choose another site for planting;

· Watering of garlic should be stopped one month before harvesting.

Correct fit and proper care are also important. It consists in the following: removing weeds, loosening the soil, watering in dry weather, removing arrows.

If you follow these simple recommendations, you will get a harvest of healthy and large heads of garlic.