5 FEEDING OF GARLIC AND WHAT DEPTH TO PLANT GARLIC "RUSSIAN SIZE"

To grow a high-quality crop of this crop, you must first check the planting crop by heart, and then carry out five dressings.

The taste and healing properties of garlic are well known - it is an irreplaceable flavoring agent and an excellent virus fighter. Therefore, in my opinion, growing this culture in your garden is simply the direct responsibility of any person who has land. The only question is how to ensure that the garlic grows large, strong and healthy. I have been solving this problem for more than a dozen years and I believe that garlic grown with my own hands is also an environmentally friendly product.

I don't have much space on my site for growing vegetables, in addition, it has different illumination and, so to speak, technical equipment. That is why for the last fifteen years I have allocated the same place for garlic. Would you say that this violates the crop rotation? Not at all. And as proof, I will give a simple fact: last year I grew winter garlic with 5-6 cm heads. How did I do that? I'll tell you in detail:

Immediately after harvesting, I clean the soil and sow it with siderites (mustard or phacelia), and at the end of September, I dig up the plot, adding humus, ash and a little superphosphate.

For sowing, I select my garlic with heads with a diameter of at least 4 cm.If I use purchased planting material (this sometimes happens), then before using it, be sure to taste it. For me, it should be moderately spicy and spicy, but not tasteless (however, of course, this is purely subjective). Then I divide the heads into separate cloves and soak them before planting for two hours in a solution of complex micronutrient fertilizer.

Previously, landing was carried out immediately after the Pokrov. But every year the air temperature in autumn becomes higher and higher, therefore, to prevent sprouting before the onset of real winter, I plant garlic closer to the end of September (but, of course, depending on the current forecast and actual weather).

I use homemade devices to create the landing pits. For example, I have a "device" for simultaneous "piercing" of several such holes at once. Convenient thing. But! If the soil is sufficiently moist (or clayey), then working with such a device becomes very laborious.

Therefore, now I mainly dig holes, so to speak, individually and with the help of a holder for a bayonet shovel, equipped with a special handle for pressing from above and a depth limiter (up to 10 cm). I also leave the distance between the holes at 10 cm.

I put one clove in the planting holes, sprinkle them with ash on top and fill them with water, thereby giving them moisture recharge. And then I fall asleep with fertilized soil and level the plot.

In early spring, as soon as the garlic rises (this year it happened in the second decade of March), I do the first top dressing, diluting in 2, 5 tbsp. l. nitroammophos on a bucket of water. I carry out the second feeding two weeks later - with a manure solution (500 ml of a manure mixture per bucket of water). To prepare this mixture, two weeks before feeding, I put 4 buckets of mullein into the barrel, half a bucket of chicken droppings, 1 kg of ash and pour all this stuff with 5 buckets of water. Every day I stir the contents of the barrel so that it ferments well. And somewhere in the beginning of May I perform the third feeding - with ash, i.e. I scatter it in rows, then close it up with a flat cutter and water it. At the end of May, I spend the fourth, and this time already foliar, top dressing - I spray the plants with nitroammophos (1 tablespoon per bucket of water). In early June, I do the last top dressing, scattering ash in the rows of garlic and watering immediately.

Last year, the harvest took place in mid-July, but the technology is always the same and quite simple - I carefully remove the heads with a pitchfork.

These are all my secrets to guaranteeing good harvests. The owner of the family is happy.

© Author: Yuri ZAITSEV.

GARLIC SUPPLEMENTS - VIDEO

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Reference by topic: Garlic: fertilizing and fertilizing for it from A to Z

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PLANT GARLIC DEEPER!

I saw a very large garlic in a market in a neighboring town. I asked the name of the variety and heard in response - Russian size. It was sold by the piece and at an exorbitant price, but the desire to grow such beauty in my beds overpowered: I bought five heads. And the seller, seeing my throwing, gave free advice - to plant cloves of this variety no deeper than 4 cm, otherwise they will not ascend. And she added that this garlic has high winter hardiness. That's good, I thought, and calmed down.

It's time to board. I made a beautiful row along the line, fertilized the soil. I planted teeth from four heads, as the seller advised. I grabbed the teeth from the fifth head, and then it was as if someone pulled me up - set them as they always did before, at the usual depth. When frosts slightly shackled the ground, I decided to dig out one tooth from the first "four" and saw that it turned into a transparent "candy".

I realized that I was deceived. And in the spring I was convinced of this, since only the teeth from the fifth head, which I buried, rose in the garden. At the same time, the plants were strong, vigorous and beautiful. I will note that I was not upset because of the deception - it is not in my nature to hold an offense at my heart. I do not regret anything and will still trust the sellers. Indeed, by and large, they really do share useful information. And take at least the same Russian-sized saleswoman: what if she just messed up the numbers? By the way, in one of my comments on secret letters in Dacha, I talked about how I bought Berliner's potatoes from my grandmother in the market. So - I still mentally thank her for the advice and good planting material, I wish her good health.

But back to the sprouted garlic.

He continued to develop and soon gave arrows. I left them on only one bush, and removed them on the rest. It's time to harvest. What can I say? The dug heads, of course, did not reach the size of those that I saw on the counter. But the ripe bulbs surprised me.

In the inflorescences there were about one third less of them than on my regular garlic, but they were all very large and almost the same size. I hope I can keep this variety. I am sending a photo with the results of the experiment.

Well, now I'll tell you how I grow my regular garlic. I plant it with its heads, and not on a separate bed, but next to berry bushes. And I'm digging up the garlic in two or three years. Is there a special meaning in this technology? Of course! I grow good one-toothed teeth in the nests, and in addition to them, there are also many large teeth. I think this is a good planting material. In addition to winter crops, I also grow spring garlic. So I have complete order with this culture - there are always supplies.

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Reference by topic: Landing of winter garlic, its cultivation and varieties - from A to Z

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