Until the frosts hit, it is important to have time to feed the people's tricky winter garlic dressing!

Fiery salute fellow gardeners.

Planting garlic before winter - autumn tradition of the Russian people. It would seem that skill mastery honed over decades and even our parents. But there are always options for how to improve the cultivation of winter crops.

For example, today I offer you fertilize the beds wonderful grandmother, a proven tool - normal wood ash. Free, but how effective! If everything is done correctly. There's a fad.

Why would feed garlic for the winter in the fall?

It is possible to understand bewilderment growers: Why feed the garlic in a holodina and in anticipation of these frosts. Far from it! By this logic, planting garlic on the eve of winter generally useless.

In fact, and in the late autumn and early spring, when, or until most of the other inhabitants of the garden asleep in the ground on a bed of garlic cloves are hard at work. First, they take root, and the next year are going to increase as soon as suitable weather came ...

And now we come to the key question: why ash. Now, in the second half of October! Select only the 4 main fad:

• Wood ash - ideal for chemical composition for fertilizing winter garlic. In its components, you will not find a large amount of nitrogen, which is before the winter is insidious: it can cause teeth to sprout prematurely. But there potassium and useful garden plants trace elements. And we fertilize with nitrogen when it comes time - in the spring.

• Wood ash when used properly (as I'll explain below) has a prolonged effect. Ie releases nutrients into the soil gradually, not immediately. It would have come in handy for the next year: our cunning dressing to start operating in early spring. While the owner of the site may not think about the application of fertilizers.

• Wood ash - a lifesaver for owners of gardens with acidic soil. It is advantageous to alter the acid-alkaline balance of the soil "in the right direction," closer to neutral. This useful feature can be used for the benefit of the entire site, not just on a bed of garlic. Take note!

Wood ash will not only give the land of garlic and the necessary nutrients from the start of growth, at the same time making a favorable acid-alkaline balance of the soil. It is still free and environmentally safe.

Sounds tempting? Read on how to properly use.

How to fertilize winter garlic in the fall

Alas, I wish you a bit upset. The most obvious option - simply powdered ash landing on top - not really for us. Benefits will be on him, but... It is not the maximum. Therefore I propose to do otherwise.

I advise you not only to scatter the ashes of a bed. Carefully walk tyapochkoy ripper to seal our secret ingredient to a depth of about 1 cm. No longer to leave the security-set teeth. But the ash particles due to precipitation and snow melt will be directly to the garlic and make your good work!

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