How to cover the garlic for the winter.

Winter garlic gives a rich and healthy crop, so gardeners always make planting for the winter. But to grow this garlic is not so easy.

Just plug into the ground garlic cloves and forget about it until the spring will not work. After all, if you do not hide the beds with garlic, then you can do to remain without harvest.

Here are the basics you need to know when planting winter garlic:

- Garlic should plant before the first real cold. He must have time to take root and put a little, but it does not start to grow.

- planting garlic, it should be immediately sprinkle with a mixture of wood ash and sand in equal proportions.

- when will the threat of frosts, it is necessary to cover the garlic with sawdust or fallen leaves.

Top additionally can be put breathable covering material. Cover layer only needs to be at least 8 cm. As the mulch you can not use peat and sawdust of coniferous trees, because they oxidize soil and garlic prefers neutral soil.

Sawdust should be already rotten, not fresh. Also a good ukryvochnym material may be a spruce branches. Unlike softwood sawdust, he does not land sour, but instead kills some infections.

- time to remove ukryvochny material in the spring, the garlic was able to smoothly grow without damaging the delicate feathers.

The most important rule covering garlic - it is air access to cloves. It is impossible to cover planted garlic film, or it may rot.

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