When to plant garlic for the winter in the Moscow region
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Sowing dates for winter garlic
A familiar and popular culture in the kitchen of any housewife - there are two types of garlic. One of them is winter, the one that is planted for the winter, the other is spring, for spring planting. If you decide to start growing winter varieties in the Moscow region, you should familiarize yourself with all the rules and terms for sowing a winter variety. It gives a much higher yield than the spring one, and ripens just in time for the season of conservation for the winter.
Before planting, select the variety you are interested in. Winter garlic is presented in two main types: those that give arrows, and non-arrow ones.
Arrowing types include:
- Gribovsky 80;
- Bashkir 85;
- Sail;
- Jubilee mushroom;
- Dungan local.
Non-shooting varieties:
- Novosibirsk;
- Broadleaf 220.
Regardless of the variety in the Moscow region, as in most other regions, garlic is planted for the winter 45-50 days before the first frost.
So when is it worth planting a crop outdoors? You can start growing from the end of August or choose the most successful dates according to the lunar calendar. This year, the best days are in late September and early October. It is not recommended to plant the vegetable outdoors on September 1 and 16, October 16, November 14 and 29. When planted at any other time, the plant adapts to the soil, develops the root system, which means it will give a good harvest.
Choosing a landing site
Growing a vegetable requires careful selection of a planting site. If you want to plant a crop for the winter, it is worth choosing a well-lit area of land in which moisture will not accumulate and stagnate. The acidity in the open field should be low. Loamy soil is ideal.
In addition, when choosing the right site, you need to remember the rules of crop rotation. When the same plant grows on the same soil for several seasons in a row, substances that reduce productivity accumulate in the soil, and useful soil elements are depleted.
It is best to plant garlic after cucumbers, tomatoes, and courgettes. In this case, enough minerals and other useful substances accumulate in the earth for the proper growth and development of culture.
Preparing the soil and garlic
Before planting a crop for the winter, it is worth preparing a land plot. In order for the plant to develop correctly in the open field during cold weather, the soil should be properly fertilized. Both home-made mixtures and purchased in stores are suitable. When you prepare the mixture yourself, you should adhere to the basic recommended proportions: for one bucket of horse manure or mullein, it is worth taking 1 tbsp. l. double superphosphate, 10 to 12 grams of nitrophosphate (can be replaced with 15 grams of potassium salt) and a glass of slaked lime.
Growing a crop also requires digging up the soil. You need to dig to a depth of at least 20-25 centimeters. The root system develops quickly and germinates to great depths. This means that nutrients must be evenly distributed throughout the entire depth.
When the soil is dug up and fertilized, the material itself should be well prepared for sowing. The denticles should be large, intact, without visible damage.It is necessary to remove the scales and the bottom of the garlic head from them so that the plant can take root.
Growing will be more efficient if the mother heads were collected in the suburbs, that is, in the same region. This means that the plant will take root well in soil and similar conditions.
Landing rules
You need to dig the soil to plant the teeth up to 8 cm deep. The distance between each clove sown for the winter should be from 8 to 10 cm.In order for cultivation and collection to be as convenient as possible, and each plant has the right amount of nutrients, the culture should be planted in a checkerboard pattern, just as it is recommended to plant strawberries.
Remember that planting the right planting depth affects how the plant will survive the cold. If you dig in the cloves too close to the surface, they will be damaged when the soil freezes.
Before the first frost, the beds should be covered with polyethylene. However, as soon as the first snow falls, the film should be removed. Otherwise, the wintering of the teeth will be spoiled and the cultivation is disturbed.
When the plant has survived the winter and began to give its first shoots, the soil should be loosened and fertilized. Thus, the plant will receive more air, which will significantly improve the cultivation. As a result, you will get large heads with large teeth.
Video "Planting winter garlic"
This video demonstrates planting winter garlic.