⭐Za harvest-2019: 5 rules of planting winter garlic

Good time of day, channel readers "Gardening Secrets"! Today - on how to plant winter garlic on all the rules. That he ascended in winter, early ripe next year and, more importantly, growing large and healthy teeth!

1. What goes around comes around!

Choosing cloves of garlic for planting before winter, pay attention to their health. They must be strong, without dryness, cracks, scratches, traces of rot. It is recommended to give preference to a clove of white heads with bright purple stripes.

For prevention can hold them in a solution of potassium permanganate weak pink color for 20 minutes. My neighbor by giving uses copper sulphate solution (1 teaspoon to 1 liter). She holds teeth for half an hour.

2. When planting winter garlic

Universal timing for central Russia - the last week of September and early October. In regions with warmer climates planting date pushed back to November.

3. site preparation

Garlic does not tolerate acidic soils. If necessary, conduct soil liming - this will move the acid-alkaline balance in the right side of the culture. I use this for normal wood ash, which also serves as more and fertilizing. Another enemy of winter garlic - spring meltwater. Plant it where it is not going at the time of snowmelt.

The rest of the steps to prepare the beds for winter garlic is simple: weeding, hoeing. To improve fertility can be made mold (1 bucket volume 10 l) mixed with 2 tablespoons of superphosphate.

Note: agronomists do not recommend planting it in the ground, the newly fertilized with manure. Otherwise, the harvest will be very meager. There is another council, but not so categorical: not to place winter garlic in the garden after the onions and other root crops.

4. A little about planting

Plant teeth at a distance from each other is not less than 7 cm. Otherwise, the plant will not be enough room and power to "roam". Standard planting depth into the ground - 4 cm. But there is a caveat, which I will describe in paragraph 5. After planting, the garlic is recommended winter shelter layer of mulch.

5. An interesting trick

If in your region in the winter cold, the garlic plant the winter to a depth of 10 cm. So it is easier to survive the drastic reduction thermometer. Practice has shown that even in my region (Tver region) "deep" garlic in total rises better than planted in a standard way. There is another plus - increase planting dates. So winter garlic can be planted from August to late September.

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