When to plant garlic in the winter in 2018 in the suburbs: favorable days

Varieties of this bulbous plant, designed for autumn planting, give larger fruits. They tolerate severe frosts characteristic of the harsh Russian winter, have a pronounced taste, but are poorly preserved until a new crop.

Lunar planting of garlic for the winter in October 2018 in the suburbs

It is important to choose the right timing so that the cloves of the plant have time to form a strong root system and at the same time do not give the first sheet. Plant garlic in winter in 2018 in the suburbs follows in the first half of October, when the first frosts have not yet cooled the earth.

Most gardeners try to focus on the phases of the Earth's satellite, given the activity of plants in a given period. In October plant garlic in winter 2018 year in the suburbs on the lunar calendar should be 5.6 and 7 numbers. But if the Indian summer was delayed, and the cover frosts did not hinder the earth, the landing dates are extended, according to long-term forecasts of meteorologists.

In order to correctly calculate the right time to start work, it should be remembered that winter garlic takes about a month to get into the winter well. During this time, all physiological processes inside each tooth will be completed. And since global warming has long made adjustments to the timing of the onset of actual cold weather, it makes sense to independently determine the right time.

How to process garlic before planting in the winter

In order for a full crop to please gardeners for the next year, it is necessary to carry out certain manipulations with planting material. The treatment of the teeth allows you to remove various fungi from the surface of garlic and thereby increase its resistance to disease.

There are several types of solutions that are guaranteed to destroy harmful spores on planting stock:

• weakly pink potassium permanganate solution. Garlic should be dipped in it the night before planting;
  copper sulfate. It is necessary to dissolve the blue powder in water in a ratio of 1: 100 and soak the divided teeth in it for 12 hours;
• salt. It will take 3 tbsp. l 5 gallons of warm seasoning. We drop planting material into the brine for 2 minutes. Then breed 1 tsp. vitriol in 10 l of water, we stand garlic in a solution for another minute. Rinse and spread on the fabric.

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What plants can precede garlic in the garden

Compliance with the rules for planting garlic in the winter for lunar calendar in the suburbs in 2018 is only part of the prerequisites for obtaining a good harvest. The next factor affecting the size of the bulbous plant in the end is crop rotation.

You can not place garlic spring and winter varieties in the same area for next year. In this case, one should take into account the type of vegetables that occupied this garden in the past season.

The best precursors for garlic are:

• gourds: melon, pumpkin, watermelon, zucchini and cucumbers;
• all kinds of legumes: beans, peas, lentils;
• cabbage: white, Beijing, kohlrabi, broccoli;
• Astrovye - leaf and head salads.

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How to choose a variety and prepare winter garlic for planting in the suburbs

Southern plant species are not suitable for the central and northern regions of Russia.

You should pay attention to zoned varieties that ripen well in more severe weather conditions:

1. "Gribovsky-60." It quickly gains strength in the spring and in the first summer months, most copies can weigh up to 100 g.
2. "Komsomolets". A large variety that is highly resistant to major diseases.
3. "Moscow Region" Even in the harshest winter enters strong enough. A medium-sized crop with 9-11 teeth in the head.
4. "Crib". Ripens at the end of July, reaches 60 g.
5. "Lyubasha." Unpretentious variety with a large mass of bulbs, consisting of 7-9 cloves.

The day before planting, you need to divide the heads into separate teeth and, without removing the husks, soak them in any disinfecting solution. Be sure to discard planting material with signs of rot or with mold residues.

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How to choose a place and prepare the soil for planting winter garlic in the suburbs

For all its unpretentiousness in care, garlic responds well to light, sandy, loamy soils. Unsuitable for this culture are areas where moisture stagnates during the melting snow or heavy rains.

To improve the quality of the soil reserved for garlic, agronomists recommend the following work:

• dig a bayonet and select all the rhizomes of perennial weeds;
• Be sure to disinfect the prepared soil with a weak solution of calcium permanganate or copper sulfate. It should be prepared in a proportion of 1 tbsp. l on 10 l of water. As chemical fungicidal agents (antifungal), you can use factory
• drugs, strictly observing the dosages indicated on the packages with the drugs;
• mix a bucket of quality humus with 1 tbsp. l double superphosphate and 2 tbsp. l potassium sulfate. Scatter the resulting mass over the beds, it will be enough for 1 meter of square land, again it is good to dig the area so that the incorporation of nutrients occurs to a depth of 20 cm;
• pour the fertilized area with warm water several times before planting, so that the ground settles and cover with agrofibre or mulch.

These simple manipulations will help to double the heads of winter garlic, because the root system located in the upper layers of the soil remains its main problem. Therefore, the “airier” the bed will be, the more forces the plant will have to form a new crop.

Personal experience of summer residents

Svetlana G., 78 years old, Ukraine:

“I've never had a decent harvest of garlic. I watered it, and loosened it, and applied fertilizer with a full shovel. Until I read a tip on your site about soil. After making a glass of quicklime for every square meter, the crop was such that the neighbors ran to see. It turned out that the whole problem was the increased acidity of the soil. ”

Stepan Fedorovich, 67 years old:

“For me, winter garlic has become a matter of my whole life - retirement is not very good. I want to suggest good advice from personal experience - bring into the grooves when planting on a handful of wood ash. Moreover, it should be only from deciduous varieties, coniferous can give the soil excess acidity."There will always be an excellent harvest - and the roots do not rot, and the fungus does not stick to the heads of garlic even in the rainy summer."

Nikolay, 27 years old:

“I keep my small cafe by the road, often I have to feed truckers. And without herbs, seasonings, you can’t cook anything tasty, all the more so since now there is competition in our business - be healthy. Help out their own vegetables, which I plant nearby. I noticed that bulbs of all kinds respond very well to whey. I don’t know why, but I must water the beds with cheese waste before planting, and at least once a season I feed the plants with milk diluted with water in a 1x10 ratio ”.

Alevtina Stepanovna, 50 years old:

“For a long time, I planted winter garlic in a young garden between the trees. While apple trees and pears were small - everything grew and multiplied in free areas. As soon as the trees became branched, my bulbs began to fade. I came to the conclusion that the slightest shadow for this vegetable is fatal. ”

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