There is no gardener who does not plant garlic.This healthy and tasty vegetable needs not only proper planting, but also care throughout the entire ripening period. In addition, to fertilize, you need to regularly loosen and water the garlic properly. All this is not too late to do now, if you have neglected these necessary rules for growing garlic until now.
How to water and loosen crops
If the plant suffers from a lack of water, then its leaves begin to turn yellow. By this sure sign, you can quickly and easily understand that garlic is thirsty. Start watering it. no, it's not too late now. But, it should be understood that you do not need to fill it. Going from one extreme to another is not a good idea. Indeed, with constant waterlogging, rot can start. And such garlic will not be able to lie all winter. it is poorly stored, and we do not need this.
With an excess of moisture, the heads become larger, but they lose quality: a watery taste appears in them. After pouring the garlic, it must be loosened so that oxygen is available to the underground part of the plant and a crust does not form on the soil. Garlic is watered almost until harvesting, gradually reducing its frequency. Two weeks before the date of digging, they stop watering it completely.
How to feed the culture
Closer to the middle of summer, garlic needs phosphorus, potassium and other trace elements. Until that time, nitrogen was a priority. It is necessary for building up green mass. Now this is in the past, he has already increased the leaves, it's time to get down to the head.
In the middle of summer, arrows appear in garlic. It is recommended to cut them off almost at the very root. Otherwise, the plant's forces will go to the formation of seeds, which are formed on the arrow. The head will become smaller and its quality will decrease.
The release of arrows is a signal that it is time to apply potash fertilizers. For this, the old old-fashioned method is used - an ash solution. It has a very beneficial effect on the condition of the garlic and the quality of the future harvest. After feeding with potassium (ash), the head begins to gain weight intensively and becomes larger.
How to make an ash feed:
One and a half glasses of ash are added to a ten-liter bucket. This mixture is stirred and left to brew for a couple of hours. Then, small grooves are dug in the aisles so that the potash mixture goes exactly to the roots of the garlic.
First, these depressions are watered with plain water. Then with an ash solution. After the plants have been watered, these grooves are no longer needed and they are covered with earth or lightly sprinkled with humus. Ash not only carries food to the head of garlic, but also disinfects the earth.
If the plants are weak, painful, the head does not want to fill up in any, then one more feeding can be done. It is also not labor intensive and consists of baker's yeast and old bread (make sure there is no mold on the pieces. Even if you cut it off, then such bread will no longer go for feeding).
How to make top dressing number two:
We take a bucket of water and a pound of crackers. Pour them into a bucket, and add 100 grams of yeast (dry) and half a glass of sugar on top. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. This mixture is infused in a dark, warm place for 24 hours. It needs to be mixed sometimes. We dilute the finished solution with water 1 to 10. The resulting solution needs to be watered with garlic only once and only at the time when the formation of the head begins.
By following these rules, you will get an excellent harvest of garlic.
