A frequent guest on our table is garlic.The popularity of this product is increasing in the autumn-winter period. It is characterized by strong smell and sharp taste, so garlic is often used in the preparation of salads, sauces and meat dishes. On personal plots you can grow spring and winter.
It is quite easy to distinguish between these varieties.The head of winter garlic consists of 5-6 denticles, and in the middle is a false stem. But spring garlic consists of 10-20 denticles, while there is no false stem.
The difference between these varieties is also in the periodlanding. Winter garlic is planted in the ground at the end of autumn, until the first frost, and ardent - in early spring. But when to clean the garlic correctly and how to store it?
So which garlic is better?Often in the temperate and middle climatic zone winter vegetables are grown. This method of planting allows a good harvest with large teeth that are evenly distributed in the head. But spring garlic is characterized by a longer period of storage.
Characteristics of spring garlic:
Characteristics of winter garlic:
Many gardeners can not decide which garlic is better to be planted. Most often planted on the site of both varieties. One gives an early harvest, and the second - is ideal for storage.
Winter cows are planted by many summer residents.People believe that it is necessary to plant denticles into the ground before October 14, that is, before the Orthodox holiday of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin. Here everything is clear. But it should be correct to determine the date when the harvest should be harvested.
Perennial garlic is practically not stored, so it is used first, otherwise it will simply disappear. How to identify an overripe crop?
To know when to remove garlic, it is important to be able to determine the signs of its maturation.
Experienced summer residents say that garlic is enough for 100 calendar days to fully ripen. Most often this period falls on the middle of summer. Harvesting of garlic starts from July 20 to August 1.
The exact date for cleaning garlic can not be called. Everything depends on the weather conditions throughout the growth of the plant. But you can make sure of ripening of garlic, paying attention to such signs:
Now you know when garlic can be harvested. So how to prepare the plant?
Many gardeners are guided not only by the appearance of garlic. The lunar calendar is an effective aid in determining signs of maturity.
Everyone knows that the moon is an active assistant forall agronomists. It is enough to listen to the biorhythms of nature to collect a good harvest. In addition, this method of harvesting garlic always speaks of its long-term preservation.
So how and when to harvest garlic on the lunar calendar in 2018?
But harvesting has its own characteristics. It is not enough just to dig up the heads. Given the lunar calendar, it is necessary to carry out manipulations before removing winter garlic.
If you are convinced that the garlic has ripened accurately, it must be properly dug. First of all, you should pay attention to the weather. It should be clear and dry.
If you have decided when to pick up winter garlic, you should prepare a fork or a shovel. Forks allow you to gently remove the head from the ground, to avoid injury.
Dug out garlic is left for several hours ongarden bed so that it is well dried. If the weather permits, then the plant is left in the garden for 5 days for complete drying. But if the weather changes, it is not recommended to postpone the cleaning of garlic. In this case, it is dried in a warm, dry, well-ventilated room for 1 week.
Today you can learn a lot of secrets of summer residents.When to clean the garlic is clear, but what to do next? Sheet trimming is not recommended. During drying, garlic absorbs all the nutrients from the top.
Agronomists recommend drying garlic outdoorsdirectly in the sun. This method allows you to eliminate the spores of mold, fungi, parasites and ticks. In addition, this increases the resistance to the spread of disease.
When winter garlic is removed from the garden, I dry it in the sun, then you should gently shake off the lumps of earth. The roots are carefully cut, leaving a length of 3-5 mm. At this stage, you can cut the foliage and tops to 1 cm in length.
Garlic - quite capricious in terms of storage.Therefore, it is necessary to create ideal conditions for this. Keep it in a dry place. To remove excess moisture, you must pour a large table salt in a container of garlic. It absorbs excess moisture.
You should know not only when to pick garlic onstorage, but in what conditions it should be in the future. For example, it should not be in a well-lit room with high humidity and temperature.
By creating the most optimal conditions for storing garlic, you can contribute to its longer preservation.
Particular attention should be paid to proper storage of the crop. Otherwise, you will have to face such problems:
Garlic head rot and mold oftendevelop with high humidity. In this case, it is necessary not only to sort out the crop, removing the affected specimens, but also to dry the remaining heads. Drying time is about 6 days. Garlic can be dried near the central heating radiators. After that it is necessary to hide the crop in a dry place for storage. If the humidity is high, you can pour the remaining garlic with salt.
Often gardeners are faced with the problem of drying.teeth. Natural drying is characteristic of winter varieties by the end of the storage period. This process can be delayed for several weeks. It is enough just to wrap the heads in the cling film. If the drying period has come much earlier, it means that the air may be too dry. In this case, you can put the head in the refrigerator for several days. But long-term storage in this place is not recommended, because the teeth can dampen and rot.
If the teeth changed their color at the base toyellow color means that the crop was struck by a nematode stem. In summer, the female lays eggs in the bottom of the plant and the soil. Such garlic is poorly stored. He is sorted, the diseased heads are separated from the healthy ones and burned. After all the seed must be treated with insecticides. After drying, send to storage in a dry place.
All cloves beginning to germinate mustclean and pour vegetable oil. In this state, they can be stored for a long time. Sometimes they carry out cauterization of the Donets fire. The teeth that have already sprouted lose their resilience and elasticity. They are not eaten.
Garlic damage is quite raregranary pests. The main pests are flour and root mites. They get into the clove through the bottom and feed on the juice of the crop. Over time, the bottom becomes rotten and falls off. If you have found the possible development of these pests, the entire crop must be poured with powdered chalk.
If pest infestation was detected during storage, all heads should be placed for 1.5 minutes in an oven preheated to 100 ° C. After the garlic is sorted, the affected heads are burned.
Many inexperienced gardeners are interested - whenclean the garlic? Terms and signs of ripening will allow the crop to be properly harvested, which will have a beneficial effect on its further storage. Experienced gardeners recommend not to forget about the lunar calendar, which monitors the biorhythms of nature.
