Every gardener dreams of growing delicious garlic.
The culture is capricious in storage; the slightest mistake and the heads will quickly spoil.
Simple rules will help you grow large and tasty garlic. Even an inexperienced gardener can master them. Find out what the secret is and apply it in practice.
How to Grow a Big Harvest of Garlic
A few tips will help you cope with this difficult task.
Sowing garlic
Winter garlic should be grown as a biennial crop. In the fall, first the bulblets are sown, and from them grow single cloves. And only after that, large heads are obtained from single cloves. This is how the garlic does not degenerate and will not become smaller.
But there is a nuance here too. To avoid making a mistake, sow the beds like this: some with bulblets and some with single-clove bulblets.
The soil is mulched with peat or compost. The best option is to cover it with spruce branches. Garlic overwinters well, and spruce branches will retain snow, which is useful for the spring development of garlic.
Another secret: if garlic is sown in bulbs and is not looked after, then every year it will become smaller.
The soil in the beds for garlic should be kept loose and weeds should be removed in a timely manner. It is important to continue spring weeding when the garlic is still a baby.
Particular attention should be paid to watering. Garlic likes loose soil, and water can concrete it, making it dense. Nothing terrible will happen if garlic suffers a little from drought, it will become more pungent and aromatic.
Another secret is not to overexpose garlic in the garden, otherwise it will fall apart into cloves and the harvest will not be stored well. Such heads are only suitable for canning.
