Garlic is today one of the most common garden plants, which occurs every summer cottage.It is included in many food recipes, moreover, it is an excellent drug able to fight microbes set in the human body.
Care garlic, especially in spring, does not require much effort.This plant is cold-resistant, able to begin the process of its growth at zero or even slight sub-zero temperatures.Zubkov bulbs are formed by five degrees of heat, and mature already at twenty and more.
first weeks after planting garlic care is frequent watering.During this period begins intensive root growth.The next day, after watering is necessary to loosen the aisle at a depth of two or three centimeters to break formed on the surface of the earth crust and improve soil ventilation.
In addition, the growth of garlic care is weeding the beds of weeds and watered as the drying of the soil.Experienced gardeners, who often do not have time to travel to the area, know that in this case it is necessary to loosen the soil around the roots and sprinkle them with sawdust.In this case, garlic survives even if rarely watering.
Care garlic before harvesting is reduced.At this time, it stops pouring, however, in order to obtain a large head, a plant for about two to three weeks is necessary to break down at a height of around fifteen centimeters from the top of the leaf.Thus, the yield increased by about a quarter.
In early November, need such care for winter garlic as mulching two-centimetric layer of well-decomposed dry peat or humus.
as mulch good fit and fallen leaves, which need to be expanded in the garden.In early spring, when the shoots of winter garlic was just beginning to emerge from the ground, the mulch is removed.This is done in order to prevent podprevanie plants.
spring and summer, during the period of growth and development, care for garlic include compulsory feeding of mineral fertilizers.During the growing season the plant needs nitrogen fueling, and after mid-June, when begins the formation and growth bulbs - phosphorus-potassium.However, please know that the excess nitrogen fertilizers can cause increased growth of the vegetative mass and lowering yields bulblets.
first feeding is carried out after the appearance of two or three leaves.For this purpose, ten liters of water diluted with a tablespoon of urea.The beds that are watered from a watering can with a solution (five liters per sq. Meter).After two weeks, repeated dressing.The third and last fertilizer made in late June.
However, the most important step of which is care for garlic, still is the constant watering.The plant does not tolerate excess moisture.With its rare watering bulbs shrinking.It is best to water the beds in the lodge in the morning or in the evening.Thus, if the temperature is less than fifteen degrees, the need for moisture plant does not experience.In June, the winter varieties form their flower arrows, which develop on the end of the bulb the air.
today gets more and more popular spring garlic, planting and care which generally are not very different from the winter.
