How to plant winter garlic

Winter garlic Those who were lucky enough to visit Boris A. Bagel at a party, or to listen to his inspirational speech on the club workshops, to at least read one of his books, know his approach to farming: on the one hand, to make it as simple as possible, and with another — above all, deeply realizing the essence of life.

Membership culture to the winter type is determined not by our willful choice of time of sowing-planting, and the presence of culture in the vegetative phase, which should be experienced in pre-winter.

From winter cereal crops (wheat, rye, granary) at this time is laid to the root system capable of nourishing in the spring of one ear, and a Bush 5, 10 or 50 of the productive ears. This phase is so called — the phase of tillering.

Winter garlic should also use the pre-winter fertile season, the plants have formed a strong root system and become immune to all the vagaries of the weather.





Well-rooted teeth not able to squeeze the cold. Plants with comparisonbut in a state of suspended animation, i.e., preparedness for recovery, and there is no need to cover them for the winter. And it is, in fact, denies them the "chance" to get wet or damp out.

And — most importantly — in the spring, when the snow had not yet descended, lush plants start the growing season without spending a comfortable, fairly short cool season to build the root system. So garlic is called winter, not because planted before winter, but because he has a phase, the occurrence of which must be provided in the pre-winter!

When to plant?

Back to the great book of Nature. What I've failed to see just downcast eyes Dale. In September in the former garlic bed, you can see the "hedgehogs" of shoots lost by harvesting heads. That is the hint the wise mentor — Nature. In our conditions, in Slobozhanschyna, the most suitable time for planting seems to me the second week of September. And it is not necessary to consult what was written there-and there. "Royal decree" prescribed in the garden!

Winter garlic, it turns out, should be put to it in September, gave friendly shoots.

For that matter, then naturally the question may arise: "is it possible to plant garlic earlier?"

Yes, for example, in the Kuban, where the garlic Matures 2-3 weeks earlier than us. We have the same — not worth it. The fact that garlic teeth, like the seeds in the watermelon, protected by the inhibitors of germination. And need some time to inhibitors decomposed. You can imagine what would happen to the seeds lying for months in wet, warm flesh of watermelon, do not be their protection from germination.If garlic is planted too early, protected from the shoots, and suddenly the rains come — it will rot.

First of all, garlic has the property that in the English language is called undersize.We are talking about a progressive drop in the harvest from reducing the size of the landing Zubkov. Roughly speaking, if the landing tooth less than the other, say, twice, that the smaller the clove will yield already at 2 and 3-4 times less. I don't know of another culture, which this property would be so obvious. In any case, Luke is the brother of garlic — this property is not inherent in the slightest degree: from onions, 10 times smaller, can grow 10 times as big turnip.

This means that landing — only the largest teeth. And if the head is among the five "brothers" is one that is noticeably smaller than the others — it should resolutely reject, even if it is — in itself — is large enough. Needless to say that the selection for landing the largest Zubkov — not very popular?





Further, it will be about choosing the optimal time to remove the arrows. Not remote hands can reduce the potential size of the heads 5 or more times: the arrow switches the lion's share of attention plants.However, there are varieties that have "maternal feelings" is not so noticeable: in these plants the size of the head decreases only by 20-30%.

So to remove the arrows from the air bulbectomy it is necessary. But not too early (this is a widespread issue). When the arrow forms a complete ring and ready to do the second — it's time to remove it. On the one hand, the "stump" no longer grows (which is unacceptable too early removal). And on the other — hand does not have time to "pull the juice out of a breadwinner".

Wrong those gardeners who pull the arrow. No, no and again no! The arrows need to pinch off the knife with one hand.

When the arrow is pulled, the torn thread in depth about the stem, the upper leaves may begin to fade before the bottom, and it desorientiert gardener when choosing the moment of harvesting garlic.

Remove the garlic should be when dries out 6th from the bottom sheet.

And when the leaves wither from the top and bottom, then try to catch the moment when the 6th sheet would have shrunk by itself.

Preliminary results.

The secrets to successfully growing garlic are as follows:

  • early (in the second week of September) planting,
  • the selection process for landing large Zubkov,
  • timely (after the formation of the first ring) removal of arrows.
There is another important "action without hands." I'm a garlic field. Bank and cherish the possible weeds.

They cover the soil, not allow it to heat up in the heat and make life hudaybiah garlic more comfortable.

And because the garlic is removed before the weeds do not have time to oltenitsa, and without prejudice to spoleti after harvesting garlic at the time of preparing the beds for the culture of the successor.

Poke or to sow?

How could be born and without exception to master the consciousness of farmers, the myth that garlic poke? Poking is a tedious and harmful operation: "the nuts" goes to the back, and the veins on the legs, and fingers. Timiryazev would say:

"And you have garlic asked if he needs the poking?". I asked, tried to sow garlic — and turned out to be "five plus"!

  • Scratch a plane "good" groove and pour it to the bottom was flat. Then (standing at full height!) scatter the teeth in the groove, push their plane so that they were "zigzag" of 7-8 cm from each other, then the groove fall asleep, I sow some arizu (say, mustard), close up of seeds, "priprava" rake like a hoe,... leave bed for almost a year, before harvesting the garlic.
As declined work? 10, 100 times? However, the neck is such a garlic crooked (because of the landing of the teeth lie, and the false stems are). Ugly? Yes!

Did legs, decorated with varicose veins from long sticking Zubkov, and broken nails stripped manicure — beautiful?

To feed whether the EM-silage?

The rapid vegetation of the garlic plant comes at a time when bacteria is still cold to the "warm Nicholas" there is a threat of frost, and ensilage start pointless. But when it's a steady heat and you can start ensilage vegetation garlic plants slows down, they proceed to the formation Zubkov, and attempt to feed them at this time of EM-silage is a really powerful fertilizer would give deplorable results: the plants began to fatten, would give powerful bushes and... with gulkin nose head.

It is curious that, except for the garlic, I don't see any vegetables that EM-silage could cause harm (except potatoes require some care).So EM-silage is not left unattended, and delayed — after reflection and careful experimentation.





Feeding garlic

Per month (and even more) to "warm Nicholas" you can cook "tea" from the beginning of the lush vegetation of celandine, nettle, spade-another of the litter (or manure) and shovels of ash. Then feed the roots of this infusion of plants, from watering and the garlic will get very appropriate at this time, rich in potassium fertilizer.

Important "note". The worst, almost indestructible pest — the voracious larvae of the may beetle — the factory ourselves. Spring lightly applied to the soil manure, humus, compost, etc. Odor of fertilizer will encourage beetles (late may — early June) to postpone we have on site eggs. Fly, say, to us — we have the larvae will have something to chew 3-4 years! And then not know what to do with them, all eating. After I started to wonder what was going to smell like a vegetable garden by the end of may, disappeared these horrible larvae.

So, if the above-mentioned "tea" made early enough and the marks on the stems and leaves washed immediately subsequent watering, the time of summer, may beetle garden deodorize and will be — from the point of view of a beetle — is futile!

 

Author: Vadim Kleimenov, from a conversation with Boris Bagel

 

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