Planting garlic - the best calendar dates and rules
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Planting garlic according to all rules
The more various epidemics go around, the more mutually deadly viruses are mutated, the more expensive the medicines in pharmacies (not always effective), the more important is the role of a remarkable natural healer. Garlic never fails.
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I have long been watching the cultivation and storage of garlic. Many readers prefer the spring garlic because of the poor storage of winter garlic. Many methods of storage were suggested: in ashes, in salt, in oil, in paraffin, etc. Some advise to store it in the refrigerator, and the maximum until January. Garlic is kept all year round!
Until a new crop is ripe, we use garlic in various marinades and pickles. Three years ago, already in the fall, it was a pity to throw old garlic in September, I planted it between the currant bushes in a separate bed - on the first greens in the spring. Garlic has grown well and is not much different from the new one, the heads were no less.
The success of storage depends on many factors, including the cultivation of agrotechnics.
N.V. Dorofeeva explained in detail about the preparation of beds, planting and nursing, and I want to improve it in some ways and finish my thoughts.
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Grass under garlic planting
I prepare the seedbed for garlic ahead of time, level and top compost the layer 3-5 cm with the addition of chalk and ash, as garlic loves alkaline soil.
About ten years ago I came to visit a friend at the cottage, and, as always, bypassing the garden, ooh, akh. Powerful bushes caught my eye on the site with strawberries. To my question, what is it, the owner took a shovel and pulled from the ground ... a bush of garlic. This was not a sight for the faint of heart! If they had told me, but I hadn’t seen it, I would never have believed it! Imagine: 5-6 large heads of garlic with a powerful root system.
Agrotechnics in my friend is simple: in autumn, on free places between bushes, strawberries plant on the clove of garlic and forget about it for two years.
So think about when to plant it. For myself, I decided: I plant garlic after 25 August, taking into account the lunar calendar. In autumn in Siberia, not always the day of planting coincides with good weather, especially if you focus on the lunar calendar, so sometimes you have to shift the time.
Arrangement for planting garlic
For convenience and acceleration of landing, I use a simple “adapt” (photo 1). It is a board 70x7x2 cm, to which wedges from the same board with a width of 4 are nailed cm with a decrease of up to 3 cm. All wedges are the same length - 15 cm each, although it is better to increase the extreme by 1 cm - it is easier to mark the beds. The distance between the axes of the wedges is -15 cm. For those who find it difficult to work bending over, to the center of the bar on the stable side of the wedges you can nail the handle and work standing.
I selected all the dimensions based on the size of my garden bed, the width of which is 70 cm. The distance between the holes is recommended to be 7-8 cm, I get them 15 cm, but I plant in holes on 2-3 denticles, and they perfectly coexist.
Experiment for the sake of several rows I plant on 1 denticle, but the largest. In general, the harvest is smaller somewhere on the 2-3 tooth, but the heads are larger, I then use them for planting.
I choose the length of the wedges a little more than recommended, especially if I plant "combinations of three fingers." In the bottom of the cloves of garlic there are tubercles - future roots. They are very tender, and when planted by pressing into the ground, some of them are destroyed. Even if this garlic grows, it will still be immature and weakened, so it is poorly stored.
Now, as I plant. I water the bed abundantly for a day or two: when planting, the ground should be not sticky, but also not crumble. I make holes as follows. First, along the bed, with the edge, I pull the cord and touching the edge of the “ways”, I spend 5 strips along the bed (if the extreme teeth are enlarged, 2 strips will be obtained). I make 5 holes on the edge of the bed perpendicular to the stripes. I will “adapt” it to the full depth, then I will take it out, swing it slightly, so that it will fall off less. No matter how hard I try, part of the earth falls into the hole, but there is nothing to worry about: after all, compost with fertilizer crumbles mainly, and we have a reserve along the depth of the hole - the earth at the bottom becomes looser and will less injure the bottom of the tooth.
The rest of the holes I do this: first along the edges along the beds, and then in width. The first 25 holes are ready, and everything repeats. If you again go through the finished holes, but reduce the direction of the “adaptations”, the holes will become almost round.
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Preparation of garlic seeds for planting
Now about the seeds. For planting I select large heads of garlic, on the day of planting I divide into teeth and soak. Previously, it was soaked in copper sulfate (1 spoonfuls per 5 liter of water), and last year I tried to soak in the solution, which was offered by the reader N.V. Dorofeeva from Voronezh.
After soaking, garlic should be planted as soon as possible, because the roots quickly hatch in the bottom. I plant in each hole to the desired depth (and this depth in different regions varies from 5 to 15 cm), 2-3 cloves. In this case, compost with fertilizers covers the cloves. All this I do with a wooden mop. All of you have probably seen how the workers level the asphalt - they get a very flat surface. I found such a mop in a garbage dump, it was too big and apparently didn’t like the landlady, but I appreciated it and evened the beds with it: it was a pleasure to compact the ground after planting with it.
Care for garlic is reduced to loosening and watering.
For the processing of beds I use my cultivators (photo 2, 3). Many people use plane cutters, choppers, rakes, but actually the best are wire cultivators: they do not have sharp and cutting edges, therefore, when processing the surface, they do not cut weeds, but pull them out. Weeds, after all, when they emerge, have the appearance of thin strings.
I make rippers from stainless steel wire with a diameter of 1,5-3 mm. For the manufacture of the first tools, I used wire from a spring expander. I make rectangular cultivators with a handle 1,2 - 1,5 cm long - they are very comfortable standing while walking along the beds and loosening them. I do it with pleasure.
Rhombic cultivators are convenient to use when removing weeds near vegetables, thinning out plantings of carrots, beets ... I threw a loop, pulled it, and that's it. To weed or thin out with your fingers is much more difficult and longer, and often instead of weed you will pull out what you don’t want ...
To make such shelves is very simple, for this you need small vise and a steel tube: with its help it is convenient to bend the wire in the right place. There are many ways to attach shelves to handles. The simplest is to drill a hole in the end of the handle along the thickness of the wire and fill it with epoxy. A good way is to attach with clamps, which are sold in a wide variety in auto and plumbing stores. In this case, the ends of the wire need to be bent, and the structure will become stiffer.
Garlic storage - right and wrong
And now about storing garlic. It all starts with cleaning. Garlic is very afraid of mechanical damage. It is only necessary to press the head harder, or it will fall from the table to the floor, such garlic will no longer be stored. I pull out the heads with the help of a sapper blade: in the right hand there is a shoulder blade, in the left hand there is a bush, and slowly I push it out. I remove the earth only by hand, in no case hit the heads against each other!
Then the garlic is sent for drying. On the beds I do not leave it: dew and rain do not allow the garlic to dry, it can corrupt.
As a child, my grandmother made me place garlic vertically in the barn. The walls there were made of wattle, the room was dry and drafts were walking - an ideal place for drying. I send the dug garlic to the veranda and spread vertically along the walls with a thin layer for 10-15 days. During this time, the stems dry out, and all the beneficial substances pass into the head. I cut the roots with scissors, leaving 5-10 mm, and remove the upper part of the skin shell with a fingernail, while the top of the teeth is exposed and the interdental sinuses open (photo 4).
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This is very important: in garlic not processed in this way inside the sinuses, conditions for decay are created, and in the treated one, if even one tooth becomes rotten or dry, the rest will remain intact.
Next is drying again. I spread newspapers in a corner of the room and sprinkle garlic in a thin layer. After a month I sort, and I put the one that is intended for storage in a canvas bag, then in a plastic bag in which holes with a diameter of 10-15 mm are made. (I tried to burn the ponytails, but I received nothing besides extra dirt.) I keep this bag in the dark on the floor, and my friend - in the closet on the shelf, and the result is excellent.
Try it, and you will succeed!
© Yu.V. KOPYLOV, Tomsk
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The onion was a success, but it ripened ahead of time - apparently, the heat also played a role. But the bulbs quickly filled up and grew very large. And so that they do not boil (I always have bulbs on top of the soil), I covered all the beds with onions with span bond. And again, well done for doing this - for many, it just boiled, became transparent. Of course, it will not be kept. I planted onions from sets and seedlings from seeds, and from seeds as many as seven varieties. What a chic he grew up, especially Yalta. Extraordinarily sweet! And all thanks to the intense heat. It turns out that the hotter it is, the sweeter it is.
But the garlic upset me: I have never seen such a bad harvest. The seed material was excellent, which means that the heat is also to blame. He almost immediately switched from winter to summer, and it is in the spring that garlic increases the vegetative mass, so the heat affected the size of the heads. Yes, and it began to dry out before a week or two. But what is, is, let's say thanks to him.
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Loss of garlic
Many complain that garlic quickly grows during storage, giving green shoots, becomes sluggish. I prun and burn the roots of winter garlic on a gas burner and then store it in an old saucepan - losses
no! At the bottom I fill in a large salt layer in 3 cm and lay rows of garlic on it, then salt again, and so on. I keep the pot in the cellar (although the garlic will be well preserved under the bed or the closet). And I'm doing a simple work.
GARLIC PASTA
I purify 200 g of garlic, put it in a blender, add 50 ml of olive oil and mix everything until smooth mush. The resulting paste is added to a glass jar and stored in a refrigerator. I use it as necessary, like garlic. The paste lasts a long time, without losing its medicinal qualities and aroma. Yes, and add it to the dish very easily.