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Planting winter garlic: preparation of the garden and care
Planting winter garlic is carried out in the fall, 3-4 weeks before the onset of the first frost. During this time, the root system will become strong enough to allow the plant to endure cold weather. Proper soil preparation for sowing garlic, as well as proper crop care will help you get a rich harvest already in the middle of summer.
Winter garlic: preparing the garden for planting
Preparing the soil for winter garlic should be started a few weeks before its intended planting. To do this, it is necessary to allocate a sunny place in the garden for the garden bed, which will be protected from winds and excessive moisture. Loamy soil is most suitable for garlic. The crop can be planted after strawberries, early cabbage, cucumbers, peas and beans.
For planting winter garlic, large and strong teeth should be selected, without signs of disease
Potatoes, onions and tomatoes cannot be chosen as predecessors.
At the chosen place, you need to fertilize the soil. To do this, you can use compost or humus, in the calculation of one bucket per 1 sq. m. If the soil has high acidity, then ash can be added to reduce it.
Fresh manure cannot be used as top dressing.
The fertilized soil must be carefully dug up, and plant residues, roots and stones must be removed from it. The prepared bed can be covered with foil or spunbond and left as it is until the garlic is planted. This will help get rid of weed growth.
Winter garlic: planting and aftercare
After 2-3 weeks after fertilization has been introduced into the garden, you can start planting garlic. This process consists of several stages:
- At the very initial stage, it is necessary to select seeds for sowing. To do this, you need to disassemble the heads of garlic into cloves. The largest and strongest teeth are selected without signs of disease.
- The selected cloves are soaked in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for 1-2 hours. Also for soaking, you can use ordinary table salt, in the calculation: a tablespoon per liter of water.
- On a previously prepared bed, you need to level and loosen the ground with a rake, make rows. The distance between the rows is 15-20 cm. If the soil is too dry, it must be watered.
- The teeth are inserted into the ground with the root part down to a depth that corresponds to the length of 2 cloves. In this case, the garlic should not be strongly pressed into the ground. The distance between the holes is 10-12 cm.
As soon as the temperature outside drops to 0 degrees, the garden must be covered with sawdust. You can also use peat or fallen leaves for this. These measures are taken in order to warm the garlic.
In the spring, as soon as the snow melts, you need to remove all insulation from the garden and loosen the ground. The first feeding of the plant is done when the arrows appear. Humus, herbal infusion or a ready-made mineral solution are used as fertilizers. Watering the garlic is necessary when the earth is very dry.
Once the arrow forms a ring, it is recommended to carefully cut it off with scissors.
Subject to all the rules of planting and care in July, it will already be possible to remove winter garlic from the garden.