Garlic is one of the most useful plants for the human body. Possessing antibacterial action, this culture has become widely used both in folk and in traditional medicine. In addition, garlic is not the last place in cooking, representing one of the types of spices, which gives food an irreplaceable and unforgettable taste. In a word, garlic is more useful than harm! But to use this, and any other, plant culture, you must first grow it. Here there will be a conversation about how to feed garlic in the spring during its growth, so that its fruits turn out to be really useful and tasty. Also consider the techniques of planting this plant.
How to feed garlic in the spring: preparing the soil
Picking up "cute" cloves of garlic, you can prepare the ground for their planting. At once It should be noted that the land on which the same garlic, onions or potatoes grew is not suitable. It is necessary to carefully remove all remnants of old crops or use soil on which, for example, zucchini, cucumbers and cabbage grew. Plant garlic in two seasons: in the spring - the so-called spring wheat, and in the autumn - winter. Spring garlic planted as follows. The beds should be loosened and preferably prepared a month before sowing. Just before planting, you need to add a little salt to the soil: three tablespoons of salt are diluted on a bucket of water - the beds are watered with this composition. Also the soil should be fertilized with a humus bucket with one tablespoon of superphosphate, two tablespoons of potassium sulfate and half a liter of wood tar. To plant teeth should be lowered down to a distance of about 10 cm from each other, deepening to 4 cm, and the beds should be placed 15 cm apart.
The soil for winter garlic is prepared almost the same way. Ogorodnikov's advice says that the plant should be planted somewhere in the middle of September. Soil begins to prepare for a couple of weeks. For this, the earth is deeply digged, all the remnants of crops that previously grew on this site are removed. During digging, organic (6-8 kg) and mineral (20 g potassium salt and 15 g superphosphate) fertilizers are applied to the soil (per square meter of soil) . After planting garlic, the beds are covered with manure, which will create heat for the plants under the snow. Winter has passed, than to feed garlic in the spring? Mullein in solution with water 7 to 1 is the best way. Watering is carried out immediately after the appearance of the first shoots.
How to feed garlic in spring: the recommended fertilizer for the spring type
Usually manure contains all the necessary minerals for correct and abundant growth of garlic. Slurry is the best option for what to feed garlic in the spring. Its use will help squeeze the "maximum" of the plants: large bulbs, soft and large leaves and peduncles (depending on the species). Also good is ash. This plant very much loves it. Today in the market you can find even specially produced fertilizers for garlic, which contain all the necessary minerals and organic substances - they are no less useful than slurry. They are bred with water in a ratio of 1 to 6.