How do you know it's time to clean up the beds with winter garlic

Garlic is necessary for any kitchen. It possesses strong antibacterial properties, comprising volatile and essential oils. Also, it is appreciated for the unique aroma and pungent taste. That is why almost all winter gardens grown garlic.

When to harvest winter garlic from the garden

Many prefer to grow garlic for the winter. His head is larger and juicier than the spring. Winter garlic planted later the canopy before the first frost, so he did not have time to germinate.

In early spring, when it becomes warm, it begins to grow and produces its green leaves. Usually ripening garlic takes about 100 days.

It is important to remove the garlic in winter time. It matures in mid-summer, long before spring. If you remove the garlic too early, it slices are soft, friable and odorless.

And because of this, significantly affect its keeping quality. When cleaning later due date of his head will fall apart into individual teeth, which begin to sprout.

The scales will start to burst, and the teeth are uncovered. Keeping quality vegetable fall, heads begin to dry up. Also lost the useful properties and taste deteriorates.

There are some signs that will help to understand how to remove the time winter garlic. Agrotechnics this vegetable it is that during the growing season, he released the arrow with the seeds. At the top of the arrows are air bulb where ripen seeds of garlic "the bulb."

Gardeners usually break out these arrows to garlic head was larger. You need to leave one arrow in the garden. She will give a signal when the vegetable is ripe.

After arrow straighten from the folded position, the garlic is ready for harvesting. To be sure, you need to dig one of the heads. Flakes she must be dense, tine well formed and separated from each other.

Lilac color skins. Sami leaves usually stop growing, move down, the upper yellow and bottom fade. The neck of the plant dries. The soil in the garden often cracks.

Clean the garlic in dry weather. Plants carefully dig out and left to dry in a dry ventilated area. Two weeks later the stems and roots of garlic is cut, being careful not to damage the head.

The stem is shortened to about 1 centimeter. Store garlic in a dry and well-ventilated place.