What to do to prevent the leaves of garlic from turning yellow: we treat folk remedies

Garlic is a fairly persistent culture, however, it is also prone to diseases and developmental pathologies. Fortunately, any violation of the cultivation of garlic is obvious. The first symptom that something went wrong affects the leaves of the plant - they turn yellow. What to do if garlic turns yellow? How to process plants? Can folk remedies be used to treat culture? We will talk about everything in detail in this article. And let's start with the main thing - with the reasons for the appearance of yellowness.

Content

1 Causes
2 How to prevent
3 Fight yellowing
4 Video "Why does garlic turn yellow"

Causes

Garlic can turn yellow for a variety of completely different reasons. This can be both weather conditions and a lack of certain nutrients in the soil. Also, the reason may lie in diseases with insufficient disinfection of the soil, high humidity or under the influence of pests.

Among the main reasons are the following:

hypothermia of the plant (if we are talking about winter varieties, then the shoots turn yellow in early spring);
increased acidity of the soil;
lack of potassium, magnesium or nitrogen in the soil;
lack of regular watering (if the plant is not watered on time, its leaf plates begin to dry out prematurely and therefore turn yellow);
diseases of garlic;
damage to sheets by a nematode.

Not every reason can be eliminated with folk remedies. Most of them involve either top dressing or the use of drugs designed specifically to combat diseases of garlic.

How to prevent

You can prevent yellowing of the leaves by observing the technology of planting and caring for the crop throughout the growing period. Correct selection and fertilization of the soil, timely watering, storage of garlic at the right temperature, timely disinfection - all this will help to successfully cope with the causes of yellowing in the bud. However, it is not always possible to predict the temperature drops in winter or calculate the acidity of the soil. Novice gardeners may simply not know some of the nuances, and therefore trial work may not be so easy.

If you do everything correctly, do not delay the deadlines, select fertilizers, regulate the condition of the soil, garlic will grow without any problems, and you will not have to face yellowing of the leaves. However, if the leaves do turn yellow, there are methods to combat this unpleasant phenomenon.

Fight yellowing

What if the leaf plates of your crop have started to turn yellow? First of all - to determine the reason. Most often this is a consequence of hypothermia, illness, or you simply forgot to water the garlic in time. In such cases, the essence of the problem is obvious, and it is not difficult to choose medicinal infusions.

If the leaves have turned yellow due to the harm that onion flies bring, you can make a solution yourself and water your crop with it. For this you will need:

10 liters of water;
200 g of just kitchen salt.

This solution can be sprayed onto the sheets to repel insect pests.

In addition to salt, flies are also scared away by the smell of tobacco. You can prepare a tobacco solution. Take 400 g of dry tobacco and pour 10 liters of warm water. The solution is infused for 48 hours and diluted twice before use. Lime can also be added to the tobacco solution.

If the cause of the yellowing is a nematode (a larva that eats the plant from the inside), then you have not properly processed the planting material. To do this, the cloves of garlic are usually kept in water, the temperature of which will be 45 degrees Celsius, even before planting.Or you can put them in a salt solution for half an hour at a temperature of about 21 degrees.

You also need to do watering and spraying with self-prepared products. For example, an ash solution is suitable. For preparation, you need to dissolve 1 kg of ash in 10 liters of boiling water and insist for three days.

Watering should not be done by the infusion itself. Ash concentrate should be diluted in a ratio of 1 liter to 1 bucket of water.

Instead of an ash solution, you can also use a solution of copper sulfate - mix 1 spoonful of sulfate in a bucket of cold water.

Most of the methods are fairly simple and effective at the same time. Even a novice gardener can master them and successfully apply them in their beds. But it is worth remembering that prevention is easier to deal with than treatment. And this can be done simply by studying the technology of growing and keeping garlic.

Video "Why does garlic turn yellow"

This video will tell you about the main causes of yellowing of garlic leaves, how to determine them, as well as measures to prevent and eliminate this phenomenon.