Rocambole Garlic - a plant belonging to the family of onion.Its name in Latin sounds like Allium scorodoprasum.The people have taken root, and other names: Allium Scorodoprasum, Spanish onion, garlic, garlic, horse, Egyptian onion.This plant medicinal and food contains vitamins A and C, iron, and allicin.In the food and use the tops, and cloves.Its taste is amazing!
The plant produces up to 9 flattened leaves up to 60 cm. They are pale green, striped, with a waxy coating.Bloom in July pale lilac bell-flowered garlic Rocambole.Photo shows a good spherical inflorescences.Seeds are not formed, asflowers are sterile.Floral arrow grows up to 1 m. To the plant not to waste precious energy, it is desirable to remove.
Propagated Egyptian onion cloves and babies, formed on the roots, but not on the bulb.Kids always dense leathery shell that when planting a must remove, or they will not germinate.
Garlic Rocambole in southern regions can be planted in the spring and late autumn.In areas with severe winters landing can be carried out only in the spring, and in the early stages.In this case, planting desirable to incubate for months in the refrigerator, then spend the disinfecting process (stand in the solution "fitosporin" or potassium permanganate).
For large heads flower bed should be prepared: to dig, make a rotted manure or compost, to align.Place you must choose solar.Preceded by Egyptian onions potatoes, onions and garlic should not be ordinary.It is advisable to put it after the cabbage, pumpkin, legumes.
optimum planting depth of teeth - 12 cm. Distance - 20 cm in the row, 30 cm between rows.Kids should be planted at a depth of no more than 4 cm, they will grow large odnozubki that next season full form bulbs.
in the care of plants is not unusual.Regular watering, fertilizing, weeding.During the growing season the soil should always be moist.Rocambole planting which was carried out correctly on the timing, the head can increase up to 400 g, its diameter is 10 cm. The yield is usually more than 3 kg per square meter.
Harvesting should be done with the yellowing of the lower leaves.Delayed cleaning can lead to cracking of the covering of scales, while keeping quality of heads sharply reduced.Rocambole dug garlic, the leaves should not be removed immediately.You have to wait until they are completely dry.In this case, leaves the bulb will give all the nutrients of the head will be better kept.The leaves can be linked in pairs and garlic hang under the canopy.After about two weeks the roots should be cut and dried aerial parts, leaving a small stump.As such, the head perfectly preserved until the spring.
Rocambole Garlic - a great preventative tool, strengthens the immune system.Unfortunately, to buy the planting material is not easy.But if you manage to put this plant in the garden of her, be sure to plant it you will become a regular!
