"Family Garlic" - growing planting and care
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CULTIVATION OF WINTER GARLIC IN THE PERM REGION
LANDING GARLIC FOR LAZY
Many different fairy tales walking around the country sites. Not only do people mislead each other, they also order (and most importantly, send for money) non-existent varieties and types of different garden crops!
I decided to talk about winter garlic, which I have been doing for many years - spring somehow did not take root. There has been an ongoing discussion about “family garlic". Let's see.
There are two types of reproduction of this culture.
The first is with bulbs, i.e. planting before winter and getting sevka, and from sevka the next year - marketable garlic, which contributes to its rejuvenation and getting rid of diseases. The second - with cloves: the next year we get the same marketable garlic - a head consisting of several cloves, i.e. "Family", something akin to shallots - family. But I didn’t hear anything about “family garlic” as such and never found it in literature.
There is something else - let the authors of Internet videos forgive me for "plagiarism." I go to the local club of gardeners and gardeners, which exists at our district library, and there we were shown the method of planting with whole heads - the so-called planting for the lazy. But here let everyone decide whether this is an easy matter.
Preparation of ridges: we introduce humus and sand to achieve soil looseness. Preparation of the bulbs: a thorough inspection of the bulbs, the exclusion of damaged and infected. Soak and pickle the bulbs. At times we pay more attention to the ground, planting material and carefully. The bulbs come with 4-6 cloves, and the crop is wonderful.
I recommend planting garlic around fruit trees and berry bushes: it will protect the trees from aphids, currants from moths and other pests. Even tomatoes in the open ground will protect garlic from late blight.
PREPARATION OF BULBS.
Remove the upper scales and free the tops of the teeth, cut the bottom with dry roots. Cut the stem at a height of 4-6, see. Soak the prepared heads in saline solution for 15 minutes. (1 Sr. Salts to 2 liters of water). You can soak in birch tar for 20 min., But the tar is very poorly soluble, so it is mixed with any soap solution (liquid soap + half a cup of warm water), and only after that, diluted with 1 l of water. Plant heads at a depth of at least 10 cm. Wells are made at a distance of 25-30 cm, each one contains well-rotten compost and 1 tsp. garden diatomite. Carefully place the head on the bottom of the hole, slightly pressing it into the ground, and fill it with soil.
It is very important to land at the time (end of September - beginning of October) that correspond to this region. In such a way that the roots grow well, i.e. garlic should take root, but not germinate, which will require additional costs for sheltering, sprinkling with rotted sawdust, peat, etc., which is at hand.
As already mentioned, we select only healthy and firm to the touch heads of garlic - here you will need maximum attention. We also pay special attention to the bed - the composition of the soil, the quality of the soil.
RџSЂRё landing whole heads the need for nutrients is many times greater than when planted with teeth, which means that it is necessary to apply a sufficient amount of fertilizer per well. Diatomite protects garlic from disease and decay, improves the nutritional properties of the soil, deoxidizes it, increases yield.
And it is up to you, dear gardeners, to decide whether to be or not to use this planting method or not, but certainly not to look for any more special “family garlic” that does not exist in nature.
Having long been engaged in the protection of shrubs and trees by planting garlic, I often met its shoots in the spring, but did not attach any importance to them. But someone noticed, mastered and gave a ticket to life. Well done! And you, dear summer residents, be afraid of substitution and deception: “family” is just ordinary winter garlic.
Successes to you and health from the whole soul!
See also: Winter Garlic: 5 harvesting tricks
By the way
Onions or garlic? This question is often asked, having in mind rokambol. In fact, this is a completely unique plant, a cross between garlic and leek. Therefore, experts, despite the resemblance to garlic, call it garlic onions (Allium scorodoprsum). The name "rockambole", which came from Europe, is rather strange: Rockambole is a well-known hero of French adventure novels and a card game term.
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Found a family garlic. Grew up, unlike usual, without flaws. It differs from the usual one in that it is much higher, and the stems-leaves are very large, long. Convenient in planting: it grows in clusters without harming the crop.
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Family garlic: myth or reality?
I heard about family garlic, but none of my acquaintances have heard of this. Is this a publicity stunt or does it really exist? Does it make sense to grow such?
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- Family is not a variety of garlic, but a way of growing it. The main difference is that you plant regular spring garlic, but not with chives, but with whole heads. In fact, the technology does not differ much from the standard one. The only difference is that as a result, a group of heads grows, usually smaller than usual (but there are more of them). And you need to dig out such garlic not individually, but as a whole group (family) using a pitchfork.
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In October, before the onset of persistent cold weather, it's time to plant winter garlic. Prepare the bed a week before planting so that the soil settles a little. On the day of planting, soak the teeth in a pink solution of potassium permanganate for 2-3 hours. After planting, mulch the bed with straw or humus.
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There are enough people who want to buy family garlic, but I want to share advice: to grow larger heads, plant it through 15-20 see
The last five years I’ve been planting second-years from bulbs - Harvest strong, heads beautiful, well kept. I select the heads with 3-4 teeth and plant them in a row through 20 cm in a staggered pattern, row spacing by 40 cm. On July 15 I dig out the garlic-year-old from bulbs, 700 pieces. I plant them in the winter.
And one more tip: if you still have cloves of garlic in the spring, plant them - there will be no shooter, and do not dig out in the fall, just cut the stem near the ground, and in the fall you will harvest a good crop. Just plant less often!
Crop of garlic depends on the variety and care. Our garlic: scales dark purple, very sharp, does not freeze. But we cover with a fern: it is light and soft, soft, sprouts easily break through it, in the spring I do not pick it up for a long time, until the garlic grows on 15 cm. Then I rake it in the aisles, it keeps moisture.
I have been planting garlic, one might say, all my life, and I have come to the conclusion: there is no need to plant it deeply, and he does not like the strong sun.
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Diatomite for beds
I read that the beds can be filled with diatomite. What is this substance? What can replace it?
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- Diatomite is a soil disintegrant, which also helps to improve its water and air permeability, slightly reduces its acidity. It is a rock with silicon in its composition, soft and loose in structure. In people, diatomite is called mountain flour. Add to the beds with dense, lumpy soil at the rate of 1 bucket per 1 sq.m. But even for loose soil, this improver will not be superfluous, although it needs less - 0,5 buckets per 1 sq. M.
As a baking powder instead of diatomite in the same doses, you can use river sand, wood ash, or crushed to dust chalk.
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To get the maximum yield of spring garlic, before planting split teeth leave on 30 minutes in a weak solution of potassium permanganate or ash (1 tablespoon on 1 liters of boiling water, leave to cool, drain). Then wrap in a cloth dipped in honey (0,5 tsp on 0,5 l of water) cloth, put in a plastic bag, do not tie it. Keep in the fridge 2-3 of the day until roots appear. If there is no time for sprouting, 1-2 nitroammofoski granules dissolve in 2,5 l of water, soak garlic in the solution overnight.
Take the bed of garlic where the siderats (alfalfa, clover), zucchini or squash grew last fall. Do not plant garlic after onions, carrots and beets.
Under the digging at 1 sq. M, add 20-25 g potash phosphate fertilizer. At a distance of 25 cm from each other, make furrows with a depth of 2-3 cm. At a distance of 10-12 cm apart, spread the garlic cloves. Sprinkle with earth and grind with humus or compost (layer thickness - no more than 3 cm).