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Despite the fact that garlic is always available for sale, it is often grown in personal and suburban areas. Garlic is a useful vegetable widely used in cooking. Growing garlic at home, gardeners can be sure that it does not contain harmful substances. The vegetable is not capricious, so even novice gardeners get good results.
In culture, winter and spring garlic are distinguished. They have differences in planting and grooming. Today we will focus on spring varieties. Correct and regular top dressing of spring garlic during the growing season is of great importance for obtaining large and healthy heads. Novice gardeners are often interested in what fertilizers should be used, in what quantities it is applied under a spicy vegetable, at what time.
What fertilizers do garlic need
In order to get a good harvest, it is necessary to feed garlic alternately with organic and mineral fertilizers.
Organic
Many gardeners do not want to use mineral fertilizers on their beds, they prefer to feed plants, including garlic, with organic fertilizers:
- Wood ash for disinfection and nutrition of soil with microelements.
- Mullein and chicken droppings... This organic matter contains a sufficient amount of nitrogen, which is easily assimilated by plants.
- Compost... It contains a large amount of nutrients and trace elements.
- Regular table salt for disinfection of cloves of garlic, destruction of pests in the soil and saturation with microelements.
- Potassium permanganate to saturate the soil and plants with manganese.
- Ammonia... It not only destroys harmful bacteria, but also saturates plants with nitrogen, accelerates the growth of teeth and heads.
Mineral fertilizers
Fertilizer of inorganic origin is used in the absence of organic matter or with its insufficient effect on the development of plants.
What mineral fertilizers does garlic need:
- In potash... They are necessary to increase yields, enhance plant immunity.
- Phosphorus... To accelerate growth.
- Nitrogen-containing... For enhanced growth of green mass at the first stage of growing a spicy vegetable.
- In complex fertilizers... They contain all the trace elements necessary for the growth and development of plants.
Regardless of what type of fertilizer gardeners choose for spring-sown garlic or other cultivated plants, they must be applied carefully.
This means that a rich harvest of a spicy vegetable cannot be harvested.
Pre-plant dressing
Top dressing of spring garlic begins with the preparation of the beds. This plant is a big fan of organic matter. It must be brought in in the fall. At least one bucket of compost or humus per square meter.
Some gardeners use potash-phosphorus fertilizers when preparing the soil. The soil is well dug up. Fertilization in the fall is accompanied by abundant watering.
The vegetable receives the second feeding in preparation for sowing. After separating into cloves and cleaning dry scales, the planting material is soaked in salt water for two hours. Then in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate or copper sulfate for 2 hours.Such processing saturates with manganese or copper.
You can disinfect and feed a spicy plant with ash liquor. To prepare it, 400 grams of ash must be poured with two liters of water and boiled for 30 minutes. In a cooled and strained solution, the cloves are soaked for a couple of hours. Ash not only disinfects the planting material, but also saturates it with potassium and other trace elements.
Immediately before planting, the soil is watered with a pink solution of potassium permanganate. The grooves can be treated with Kornerosta solution: dissolve 2 tablets in a ten-liter watering can. After that, the cloves are planted at a distance of 8 cm and covered with soil. Pour on top with clean water. Until the leaves appear, no fertilizers are applied.
Features of spring and summer feeding
Spring garlic is a great gourmand; it needs nutrition with various microelements. As a rule, root and foliar feeding is carried out.
Top dressing under the root
For the entire growing season, spring planting garlic is fed three times:
- The first time root feeding is carried out after 3 to 4 feathers appear on the plant... You need to feed to build up green mass. A spicy vegetable can be poured over with urea. A liter of water requires 15 grams of the substance. Fertilizers are prepared on the basis of at least 2.5-3 liters of fertilizer poured onto the square of plantings.
- The second dressing of garlic falls on the end of May., but not earlier than 2.5 weeks after the first feeding. Most often they use nitroammophoska and nitrophosphate. At this time, a spicy vegetable needs nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus. All of them are in these fertilizers in different quantities. When diluting nitroammophoska or nitrophoska for 10 liters of water, 2 tablespoons of the substance are needed. Up to 4 liters of fertilizer are poured onto the square. Plants can be watered with nitrofos if the tips of the feathers begin to turn yellow. Garlic is in dire need of trace elements available in this fertilizer. In addition, fertilizers containing phosphorus or potassium enhance the vitality of the plant in adverse conditions.
- The third time a spicy vegetable is fed during the period of filling the heads... The best fertilizer is superphosphate. To prepare a liquid nutrient solution, add 2 large spoons of fertilizer to a 10-liter watering can of water. The irrigation rate per square meter is identical to the first fertilizing.
What else can you feed garlic
Gardeners understand that a rich harvest of garlic can only be obtained with proper care and timely nutrition of the plants. It is not necessary to use chemistry in the garden. There are many organic fertilizers that this vegetable is very fond of. In addition, they have been tested by more than one generation of gardeners and are completely safe for plants and humans.
Organic dressing recipes
If you do not want to use mineral fertilizers, you can use organic matter.
- This can be an infusion of bird droppings or mullein, or an infusion of herbs such as nettle. In one and a half liters of water, 100 grams of organic matter is diluted. If slurry is used to feed spring garlic, then one part of it is diluted in 6 parts of water. Fertilized at the root. You can feed spring garlic with these types several times.
- During the formation of cloves, plants need potassium and phosphorus. If you feed with an infusion of wood ash, then it will fill the vegetable's need for these microelements. You can fertilize with ash several times. This will only make the garlic better.
Foliar dressing
Plants are able to receive nutrients not only through the root system, but also through the leaves. The spicy vegetable is no exception. Root feeding is not always enough for him. Spring garlic also needs foliar feeding. It is carried out from a nebulizer.
Most often, a spicy vegetable is fed in this way in case of emergency, when the plant feels depressed due to a lack of nutrients and trace elements.And root dressings have already been carried out and correspond to the scheme. What's more, feed the plants by leaves it is possible in between root fertilizers.
The nutrient concentration for foliar dressing is always lower than for root fertilization. Sprinkling spring garlic is best in the evening in dry weather. If, after you fed the plant through the leaves, it rains, then the procedure should be repeated after a few days.
Additional feeding
For foliar feeding you can use both mineral and organic fertilizers. The vegetable responds well to ash extraction, pharmaceutical preparations: ammonia, potassium permanganate.
If the tips of the feathers begin to turn yellow, an urgent need to reanimate with any of the above substances:
- Ammonia (ammonia) when spraying will help to cope with nitrogen starvation. Three tablespoons of ammonia are enough for a ten-liter watering can. Spraying is carried out immediately after preparation of top dressing. If after 10 days the spring garlic has not recovered, spraying can be repeated. Such a procedure not only delivers nitrogen through the leaves, but also helps to get rid of pests, especially from the lurker. But the most important thing is that nitrates when used ammonia plants do not accumulate.
- Pink solution of potassium permanganate you can feed the garlic during the head formation period.
- Concerning wood ash, then it can be used during the entire vegetative period several times for both root and foliar feeding.
Features of growing spring garlic:
Let's summarize
Growing spring garlic with large cloves is not easy. It will require not only compliance with agrotechnical measures, but also timely feeding. Then you will always have plenty of delicious seasoning. Garlic is also a natural medicine.
Mysticism is also associated with garlic, for example, in the old days it was believed that a spicy vegetable hung in a house scares away evil spirits, evil forces and vampires.
