What happens if you plant winter garlic in the spring. My experiment

If you still have garlic left over from the winter, then most likely it has already become frail, sprouted and unsuitable for food. But these heads can be suitable for planting in beds in the spring.

Last year I did this experiment and it turned out to be successful. Of course, I planted the main part in the fall, as expected. But the fact is that in the spring, when I came to the garden, I noticed that the seedlings-feathers froze. This is one of the unpleasant moments when planting garlic in winter.

Agronomists and biologists believe that winter garlic can be planted in spring. But for this it is necessary to create certain conditions that the culture goes through in the autumn-winter period, namely the impact of negative temperatures on the culture. In the spring, these conditions can be created artificially.

Often in winter, these vegetables are exposed to diseases such as fusarium, gray rot. When moisture gets on the heads, the mycelium of the fungus grows rapidly, the garlic can rot completely and die. When stored for a long time, garlic becomes extremely vulnerable to rot and other infections.

Therefore, often when planting heads in the spring in April, which are prone to disease, nothing good comes of it, because they simply rot in the ground, not having time to sprout.

Preparing winter garlic for spring planting

When planting in spring, the heads must grow a root system and go through a vernalization stage (exposure to cool temperatures) so that the garlic will yield a harvest by autumn. At the same time, the stage of vernalization in this culture is rather short, 2-3 weeks are enough for the process. Garlic can be kept in the snow, taken out in frost to -5 degrees, or placed in the refrigerator for 25-30 days.

So, in mid-March, I do not throw out my winter garlic, which was left over from the winter, but put it in the snow or in the refrigerator until mid-April, and then plant it on a prepared bed.

Before vernalization, be sure to peel the garlic from the husk, divide it into cloves, then mix with sand, moisten and put in a cold place. To stimulate root growth, you can add any root former of the Kornevin type to the water (the latter is diluted 1 to 100). Before infection, the cloves of garlic can be kept in a solution of hydrogen peroxide for half an hour.

In moistened sand, the roots grow about 8-10 cm.

How to plant

I plant the sprouted garlic in a well-fertilized garden bed, make deep holes so that the entire sprouted root system fits.

Above the clove itself there should be at least 3-4 cm of a layer of earth. This method of planting winter garlic in the spring takes place. Thanks to this method, you can get a good harvest in the fall, albeit a little worse than the garlic that was planted in the fall. The heads will not be large, or large one-toothed heads will turn out. I use them as a seed, and also use them for conservation and other blanks in jars for the winter.

I do not make a separate bed for planting winter garlic in the spring, because I have little of it left. It is enough to plant it along the edges of the beds of other crops, for example, strawberries.

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