Planting garlic before winter in the fall - our experience, feedback and information for reflection
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HOW WE PLANTED GARLIC IN AUTUMN ON THE GROUNDS
At the end of September 2020, I was admitted to the hospital for an operation, where, in addition to everything else, I contracted covid in the ward. I realized that I would not have time to plant garlic. And it was not up to him, to be honest ...
In order to somehow please me, my husband Oleg Gennadievich decided to take care of the landing himself. Usually he prepared the beds, and I did the rest. My husband never saw exactly how I do it, because he was minding his own business. And suddenly he had to get acquainted with the peculiarities of planting this culture. I wrote detailed instructions on the phone, how and where to prepare two beds, how far apart to make rows, how to process garlic in potassium permanganate, what should be the distance between the cloves in a row.
She also asked him to make one small bed for the bulbs.
Reference by topic: Winter and spring garlic: the difference in cultivation + the best varieties
LANDING GARLIC - STRICTLY ACCORDING TO INSTRUCTIONS
My husband dismantled the heads of garlic, which I had selected for planting. Those teeth on which the "shirt" burst, he put aside. Having chosen the largest ones, he held them in a strong solution of potassium permanganate for 20 minutes and proceeded to land. I made rows in the beds, spilled them with water. Then he made holes with the pointed end of the stick, lowered his teeth there, sprinkled the rows with humus.
Having examined two beds with planted garlic (photo 1-2) and a small one for bulbs (photo 3), he was satisfied with his work and sent a photo. I was so pleased that my husband did a good job, coped with the planting and next year we will not be left without garlic. I praised him, showed everyone in the ward a photo of the beds.
When I returned home from the hospital, the first thing, of course, went to the garden to admire my husband's garlic beds. For the first time, everything was done really well, and once again I was glad that I had such a golden husband.
Seeing that there was a lot of garlic left, I decided to plant it between strawberries. I usually planted garlic from September 28th to October 5th. Despite the fact that it was already October 20, the weather was warm, so I planted my teeth. And two days later it snowed.
HOW WE WERE LOOKING FOR GARLIC
In the spring, my husband was looking forward to the snow melting so that he could go to the garlic beds. When the earth dried up, I began to process the strawberries and saw that the cloves that I had planted among the strawberries had already made their way out of the ground. Bulbs also hatched in a small bed.
But nothing sprouted on two large ones, although my husband planted two weeks earlier than me. The neighbors' beds with garlic are already green with might and main. With a scoop I decided to dig rows in several places. I found teeth very deeply, sprouts have already begun to appear on some of them. I reassured my husband that the garlic was alive, it hadn’t rotted, it hadn’t died out, no one had eaten it, he just made deep holes, so it takes longer for the garlic to come into being.
Another week passed, but, to the chagrin of her husband, the garlic did not appear from the ground. A week later, shoots began to appear on the same bed in different places. Then we saw sprouts on another bed. But, to my surprise, there were two or three of them from one hole. In mid-May, the garlic sprouted all, but the sprouts were weaker than between strawberries. I fed it with urea, loosened it during the summer, fed it with herbal infusion a couple of times, but the garlic on one bed still lagged behind in growth.
At the end of July, we dug up the crop. On the bed where the garlic grew in two and three stalks, the heads were small. On the second bed, the garlic was larger (photo 4), but the largest one grew between the strawberries.
WHY WINTER GARLIC ROWS BADLY?
And it dawned on me why the garlic in one garden did not grow well. Two years ago, petiole celery was planted there.
To whiten the petioles, in August I covered the rows with fresh sawdust, because there was not enough land. After digging up the celery, the earth became loose, but all the nitrogen went to rotting the sawdust.
The next year, after celery, I sowed beets of the Cylinder variety there. When she reached medium size, she removed it. I do not like long beets, it is not very convenient to cook it, it does not fit in the pan. The lack of nitrogen did not affect the growth of beets, but it affected the garlic. She told her husband her version, he was delighted, because it was not his fault that the heads grew small.
In the fall, I asked Oleg if he would like to plant garlic with me, and he immediately agreed. When we began to disassemble the heads into teeth, I understood why there were two or three sprouts from one hole on my husband's beds - he took very large teeth for planting.
I usually left these for food, because under one “shirt” two or three cloves were hidden there, one might say, a whole family. Therefore, two or three heads grew from one hole.
Dear gardeners! I wish everyone stable health, good harvests in any weather. Remember, we work in the country in order to live, and do not live in order to work only! Do not forget to take time to relax, communicate with family and friends. Love yourself and your dacha!
See also: Winter planting of garlic, onions, shallots, rocumball and tiered onions
AUTUMN, UNDERWINTER PLANTING OF GARLIC - VIDEO
© Author: Lyubov Safonova, Novosibirsk
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The winter garlic stored at home began to dry. How to slow down the process and what to do with the already corrupted one?
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- Drying of the bulbs is a completely natural process. They are alive, and therefore breathe and evaporate moisture. These processes are the more intense, the higher the temperature and the lower the humidity in the room where the garlic is stored. The degree of maturity of the bulbs and the sharpness of the variety also affect.
You will not change the last two factors, but the storage conditions can be adjusted. The ideal temperature for storing garlic is from 0 to -3 degrees. Do not be afraid, garlic will not freeze at a low negative temperature, it has a high content of solids (more than in any vegetable). Bulbs freeze at - 5-7 degrees. It's hard to find a place with zero temperature in a living room, so just find the coolest corner and keep your garlic there. It can be a window sill, a hallway and even a refrigerator.
Withered, sprouted and rotting garlic should be regularly removed and, if possible, allowed to eat, as it will infect the rest of the bulbs.
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And we plant garlic, which, despite the vagaries of the weather, every year pleases us with large and healthy heads. In the summer we make a trench on the bayonet of a shovel, put hay and straw there, tamp it down, fall asleep and plant it in the fall. Be sure to cover with hay. In the summer we break out the arrows, leaving 2-3 for verification. And when the garlic raised its crane heads up, you can dig it out. We cut the stems in half, and after a month, the rest of the stems, well, the roots too. Store in an open container and add to lean soups at the end of cooking. The taste is wonderful!
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In addition, it is a good glue, and even transparent. They can glue paper, glass, plastic. I smear the glued parts with a garlic clove, press it, let the glue dry - and that's it!