Winter garlic: planting and care

The high-quality properties of raw garlic are due to the chemical composition of the plant, which contains carbohydrates, proteins, a set of B vitamins, ascorbic acid, microelements (many phosphorus, iron, potassium, calcium), sulfide and arsenic compounds. Acute taste and a specific smell to the plant is attached to essential oil - allicin. This organic antioxidant destroys free radicals in cells . In addition to the sterilizing effect, allicin has an irritant effect, which causes expectorant and sokokonnye effects. Biologically active substances of garlic juice have antimalarial, antifungal, antiviral, anthelmintic and anti-inflammatory effects. Assume immunostimulating and anti-cancer effects. As an additive to food, it prevents poisoning by substandard products. Applied as a means of reducing harmful cholesterol and high blood pressure. With ulcers in the stomach or in the intestines, kidney disease and anemia, it is not recommended to use garlic. Planting and caring for this plant to mankind are known, as well as its medicinal properties, since antiquity. Grow this useful vegetable will not be difficult.

Winter garlic. Care

There are types of garlic - spring and winter. In the first, the covering flakes are white, while the second one has a pink or purple hue. Varieties of winter crops: Gribov Jubilee, Gribovsky-60, Komsomolets, Otradnensky - are fired. In addition to the underground head, an air bulb with bulb of garlic in miniature is formed in the thrown arrow in garlic. A non-cracking variety is Danilovsky local garlic. Planting and caring for spring and winter garlic differ only in the time of disembarkation. Spring planted in the spring, in late April, winter - a month before the onset of sub-zero temperatures. Loamy, fertile neutral soil is the best under winter garlic. Care for plants on such soil will consist in the regular loosening of the rows to a depth of 3 cm, irrigation in May-June-early July. In dry weather, watered once in 10 days with water flow per 1 sq. Km. M. 12 liters, in a particularly hot summer - after 5 days. In a rainy summer, you do not need to water garlic. Top dressing: the first - with 3-4 leaves in a bucket of water, dilute 1 tbsp. L. Urea or crystalline and pour from the watering area of 3 square meters. M. The second - after 2 weeks. In a bucket of water, 2 tbsp. L. Nitroammophoski - this solution is sufficient for 3 square meters. M. The third (and last) - in the stage of head formation, in the second half of June. Take a bucket of water 2 tbsp. L. Ground superphosphate. Bucket solution is enough for 3 sq.m.

Preparation for planting

The bed is made in a dry place open to the sun. If the soil on the plot is loamy, then for 1 sq. Km. M. Evenly scatter compost and humus - on the bucket, 1 st. L. Superphosphate and potassium sulphate, chalk or lime lint - 1 glass. Dug at 20 cm depth. If the soil is sandy, then the best will be the introduction of two buckets of loam and peat buckets per 1 sq. Km. M. In the peat soil, 1 bucket of sand and loam is introduced. Fertilizers are the same. After digging, the bed should be compacted, watered with a solution of copper sulfate (on a bucket of water 1 tablespoon - per 1 sq. M. Beds).

Freshly harvested garlic is taken from healthy and dried heads. Disassembled on denticles, it is advisable to sort them by size. Then 2 minutes rinse the denticles in a salt solution, taking 3 tablespoons. For half a bucket of water. After that, they are lowered for a minute into the solution from water and copper sulfate with the same concentration as for the treatment of beds - 1 tbsp. Vitriol on a bucket of water. And then immediately put in a garden.

Scheme of planting - in grooves to a depth of 6-8 cm, rows in 20 cm. The teeth are placed downside down. After 2 weeks, a bed of garlic is covered with humus by a layer of 2 cm. This is done so that garlic does not die in winter. Planting and caring for this fall are coming to an end. The most important thing is that garlic does not let shoots fall and does not die out in winter.

Agrotechnical methods

To grow large heads, break the arrows of the inflorescence. To obtain an excellent planting material, grow from bulb, selecting them from the most advanced plants, single-toothed garlic. Planting and caring for him are the same. In the next season, very large multi-tooth plants will grow from single-edible garlic.

Harvest

Remove the garlic when the yellowed stems and turned yellow. If you are late with cleaning, the bulbs will dissolve into denticles, and such garlic can not be stored for long. Together with the leaves, garlic is left for ripening days by 12, hanging under a canopy. In cloudy weather, it must be cleaned in a closed room. Then the stems and rhizomes from the Don are cut off, cleaned from the ground and put the heads to storage.

As you can see, it is not so difficult and difficult to grow a useful and irreplaceable vegetable. Your family will be provided with environmentally friendly vitamin and therapeutic garlic.