Why I switched to growing non-shooting garlic varieties: taste, planting, care and storage

For five years now I have been growing non-shooting varieties of spring garlic.

Spring garlic is well stored, does not cause heartburn, contains more nutrients than winter garlic, and is less susceptible to disease.

Biological features of non-shooting garlic varieties

1. Within the head, such garlic forms many cloves from 10 to 15. In the head, the teeth are placed not in a circle, but in a spiral.

2. The teeth are of different sizes - the outer ones are large and the inner ones are small

3. For planting, I take only large external teeth, and use the small ones from the inside of the head for food (of which there will be no use in the field!)

4. In terms of yield, some varieties from this group are inferior to arrowheads, but the bulb is formed larger and such garlic is much better stored.

Our family loved the early ripening garlic with partial shooting Lydia varieties .

The second most important for us spring non-shooting variety Gulyaypole .

Immediately after digging, I do a visual assessment of the bulbs. I reject damaged and rotten ones. I also remove low-yielding specimens (they can be clearly seen by the small size of the heads).

Novice gardeners, out of inexperience, think that garlic is very easy to grow, that it is practically not susceptible to disease. But this is not the case. Garlic is prone to fusarium wilt and rot

I made it a rule to use only healthy plants' teeth for planting for a new crop. The quality of the planting material is very important.

Signs of garlic fusarium rot:

• · Plants dry out prematurely in any phase of growth;
• · Lagging behind in growth in height and number of leaves;
• · Arrows underdeveloped;
• · Heads prematurely crumble into teeth;
• · Teeth are reddish;
• · The bottom is rotten or rotten.

Signs of fusarium.

Garlic one-clove should ideally be up to 3 cm in size. Smaller bulbs simply do not have the opportunity to realize their potential, and those larger than 4 cm begin to divide into cloves prematurely.

The most unpleasant disease of garlic that I have encountered is fusarium rot of the bottom. Over time, rot from the end passes to the teeth.

Garlic also suffers from viral diseases that lead to its degeneration. For example, the # 1 garlic virus (Allium virus 1 (Melhus) Smith) spreads very quickly on the garlic plantations. Its vectors: aphids, leafhoppers, thrips. Therefore, these insects should not be allowed to breed.