When to plant garlic in the suburbs - choose the best time

Everyone knows about the healing properties of garlic. This fragrant vegetable was grown and revered thousands of years ago, and today has not lost its popularity. In addition to the high content of vitamins and minerals, garlic is prized for its bactericidal properties. It is extremely useful for bronchi and blood vessels, helps in the treatment of bronchopulmonary diseases. But that is not all. Daily use of only a few denticles can protect you from cancer, support immunity, regulate digestion, treat inflammatory processes of the genitourinary system. That is, we have enough reasons to plant this vegetable on your garden plot. Today we will talk about this in more detail.

Garden

This culture is unpretentious, so it will be enough to master the primary agrotechnical skills, and you will never know the lack of useful root crops. And we will start today with what we will tell when to plant garlic in the Moscow region. The middle zone of Russia is characterized by a mild climate, which greatly facilitates the task.

Choose seeds

At first glance, there is no difference between winter and spring species. However, it is not for nothing that the breeders carried out such work and offered different grades. This should be taken into account if you are thinking about when to plant garlic in the suburbs. In order to achieve a good result, it is important to choose exactly the kind that will grow best in your region. They are divided into shooters, and do not form arrows. Those that are given by arrows are usually more hardy and winter hardy. We will still talk about when to plant garlic in the Moscow region, but for the time being, store the correct seeds.

• An excellent Dutch variety Messidor, fruitful and winter-hardy, it will definitely become your favorite.
• Violet Kharkov is also a well-known brand, which is practically not susceptible to diseases.
• Jubilee Gribovsky is one of the oldest and most successful varieties, with a very sharp taste and high yield.

Preparation

When planting garlic under winter in the suburbs, especially carefully choose the seeds. The teeth should be approximately the same size, large, without damage. If in the bulb at least one has spots, traces of mold, exudes a putrid odor, then the entire head is infected, and it must be disposed of.

Divide the bulb into the teeth before the immediate placement in the soil. Otherwise, a dry crust forms on the bottom, and the denticle does not allow roots. However, we hurried a little. First, the ripe head should be well dried, hung in the shade, in a well-ventilated place. And then put into the manganese solution for 3 minutes. After that, take out the head, and, looking at the denticles, planted in a prepared bed.

Terms of planting

It depends on the region. That's why today we are talking about when to plant garlic in the suburbs. Winter garlic is grown from autumn, so that, after passing through stratification, in the early spring the denticles gave amiable shoots. For this purpose, the garden, on which radish or early cabbage has grown, is perfect. This means that the harvest from it was cleaned no later than July, and until the end of the summer, it did not plant more.

And now the most interesting. It is impossible to say exactly when to plant garlic in the winter in the suburbs. Landing in the ground should be carried out 40 days before the frost. In this case, each tooth will have time to develop excellent roots, but the greens will not appear, since the air temperature is too low.

Let's compare the lunar calendar

And yet how to calculate when to plant garlic in the Moscow region in 2016? The optimal time for planting is from the end of September to the middle of October. However, if you want to try to grow a plant from bulbochek, then you need to sow them in April. Not all today are compared with the lunar calendar, but the natural cycles have not been canceled. Therefore, the most favorable days for planting are 12, 19, 20, 21, 24 September.

If the weather is too warm, then it's better to postpone the event for the next month. Then you can plant denticles on October 17, 18, 26 and 27. In this case, the golden mean is very important: if you are late, the vegetable will not have time to take root and partially freeze in winter, but in the opposite case it will sprout and freeze.

In dreams of a big harvest

It is with such thoughts and need to get down to business. I would like to note one more point. Since it is impossible to say exactly when to plant winter garlic in the suburbs, you need to focus on long-term forecasts, as well as on your observations. In fact, you need the ability to predict when and how winter will begin. If from heavy snowfalls - then everything is fine, your landings are securely hidden. But if the snow cover is very small, and the frosts only get stronger, you need to take care of an additional shelter. For this, a film is used. However, as soon as snowfalls begin, remove the film, let the snow cover the ground.

Let's start landing

To begin with, you need to dig a site to the depth of the bayonet bayonet and straighten the ground with rakes. Now you need to make shallow furrows for the subsequent landing of teeth. It remains only to disinfect the soil. To do this, prepare a salt solution: 3 tablespoons per bucket of water.

The teeth are set shallowly, usually 1-2 cm. The maximum permissible depth is 7 cm. There is a small trick here. It is quite difficult to count with precision when planting garlic in the fall. In the suburbs, autumn can stay warm for a long time, and the gardener will always postpone with planting. And suddenly without warning starts to get cold. Now it is already clear that winter is coming. If you are late with a landing and soon promise to freeze, land the denticles to the maximum depth, so you will protect them from frosts.

The distance between your denticles should be at least 8 cm. Between the rows, leave 20-25 cm boldly. After sealing the teeth into the soil, be sure to mulch them with a layer of peat, at least two centimeters. You can replace it with a mixture of earth and sawdust. Such a layer will reliably protect the planting, even if the ground begins with frosts, not snowfalls.

Care of plantings

Winter garlic will not bring any trouble to the owner. If he managed to take root by the winter, he will perfectly transfer the cold season and in the spring he will please you with amicable shoots. If you want to protect the plantation for sure, then cover the soil well and cover with a roofing felt. In the spring, before the germs start, you will need to remove the covering material and rinse the mulch layer a little, so that it would be easier for the shoots to break through to the sun. Now you only need a standard care: watering, weeding and feeding to get a good harvest in late summer. Proper cultivation will become a guarantee that the garlic collected is available until the very spring.